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This book is concerned with how social workers and managers can engage reflectively and proactively with changes in children's services. Vicky White and John Harris have drawn together the contributors' experiences of working with children in a broad range of settings, emphasising ways in which the current context of change can be used as an opportunity to enhance the quality of service provision and achieve better outcomes for children and their families. The authors examine approaches to the assessment of children in need and the analysis of risk, and consider the impact of poverty and social divisions on children's lives. Highlighting key concepts, such as community development and multi-agency interventions, they anticipate likely policy developments for the future. Examples are provided of the planning and implementation of new initiatives including: * preventive education to protect children * positive reinforcement of children's cultural heritage * therapeutic approaches to sexually inappropriate behaviour * training programmes for foster carers. The real-life material on which the book draws can be used as source material by students undertaking qualifying programmes in health, social care and social work and by more experienced professionals to reflect on their own practice, particularly if they are undertaking post-qualifying courses - a timely resource for all staff and students seeking to develop good practice in children's services.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Social services & welfare, criminology Social welfare & social services

• Full title: Developing Good Practice in Children's Services
• Author: Vicky White, John Harris
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208
• EAN: 9781843101505
• ISBN: 1843101505
• ID: 04853553
• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Weight: 320 g
• Dimensions: 157 × 231 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. July 2004

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