Developing good practice in children's services / [edited by] Vicky White and John Harris.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover; Developing Good Practice in Children's Services; Contents; 1 Changing Children's Services; 2 Strategic Development: Managing the Vision; 3 Analysing Risk in Child Protection: A Model for Assessment; 4 Assessment of Children in Need and their Families; 5 Children and Young People with Sexual Behaviour Difficulties: A Practice Framework for Holistic Interventions; 6 Working in a Multi-agency Context: Children's Services Development Groups; 7 Taking Care: Helping Children Learn to Keep Themselves Safer; 8 Recognising and Celebrating Children's Cultural Heritage.

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 socia.

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