Risk in Child Protection

Assessment Challenges and Frameworks for Practice

Martin C. Calder

• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9781849054799
• eBook ISBN: 9780857008589
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Social Work
• Index: Social Sciences

Assessing risk is a key challenge in child protection work. Martin C. Calder presents a clear and accessible guide to understanding risk and the part it plays.

This book considers what risk means and how risk assessments should be defined, it outlines the key challenges practitioners face day-to-day, and offers a helpful evidence-based assessment framework for use by frontline staff. Calder argues that risk now has to be reconceived as a multi-disciplinary activity which stretches beyond social work. As such, he highlights a need for a clearer shared terminology among professionals and encourages the social work profession to look to related disciplines, such as criminal justice, for ideas to improve practice.

Demystifying the complex debates around risk and showing how to deliver effective risk assessment, this is an essential reference for social workers and social work students, as well as lecturers.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Of Related Interest
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Standardised chapter guidance
• 1. Introduction: Policy Background
• 2. Ten Key Challenges for Practice
• 3. Risk Unravelled
• 4. Risk Assessment
• 5. Risk Restoration: Frameworks for Practice
• 6. Good Practice in Section 47 Inquiries
• References
• Subject index
• Author index