Key Issues in Child Protection for Health Visitors and Nurses

How can you tell that a child is being abused? And what approach should you take if you believe that a child is being abused or neglected? This book explores the challenges for health visitors and nurses, and provides practical guidelines for working in child protection. Topics covered include: gender, race and culture issues; promoting positive parenting; supervision versus control; communicating assertively, construction of child abuse in the Accident and Emergency Deptment; and the Children Act 1989.