Effective Child Protection
3rd Edition
Published on 25. November 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-1-5264-6474-3 (ISBN)
Description
Eileen Munro, author of the seminal Munro Review, returns in this fully revised and updated third edition. With new chapters on 'Child Protection Agencies as Complex Adaptive Systems' and 'How organisations can support more effective practice', this new edition shifts its focus from individual workers to look at the critical role that organisations play in child protection, and how individuals are affected by the complex enterprise of people, processes, cultures and agencies. It remains an essential guide to strengthening analytic and intuitive skills to improve children's safety.
Reviews / Votes
This book is a great catalyst for not only practitioners working with children and families but also those studying this area. The continually evolving nature of child protection and working with families and children is central to the approach take n in the text and affords the reader opportunity to consider their role, practice and professional development needs. The books overall design and approach enable professionals and students to consider how effective child Protection might be shaped, facilitated and evaluated while offering a critical yet balanced perspective on the challenges in working is such contexts.-- Dr Tracey Wornast
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Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
448 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5264-6474-3 (9781526464743)
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Eileen Munro
Effective Child Protection
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11/2019
3rd Edition
SAGE Publications Ltd
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Eileen Munro
Effective Child Protection
Book
05/2008
2nd Edition
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Person
Eileen Munro is Professor Emeritus of Social Policy at the London School of Economics. She worked as a social worker for many years before turning to an academic career. Professor Munro has written extensively on how best to combine intuitive and analytic reasoning in child protection risk assessment and decision-making and also on the importance of understanding how systems' factors influence workers' actions. In 2011, she completed the Munro Review of the English Child Protection System conducting a systems analysis of the problems. She is currently working with philosophy colleagues on research methods for complex systems.
Content
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Child Protection Agencies as Complex Adaptive Systems
Chapter 3: Expertise in Child Protection Work
Chapter 4: Evaluating complex interventions
Chapter 5: The social context
Chapter 6: Defining child abuse and neglect
Chapter 7: The Challenges of Managing Uncertainty in Practice
Chapter 8: The process of assessing risk
Chapter 9: Making decisions
Chapter 10: How organisations can support effective practice
Chapter 11: Conclusion
Chapter 2: Child Protection Agencies as Complex Adaptive Systems
Chapter 3: Expertise in Child Protection Work
Chapter 4: Evaluating complex interventions
Chapter 5: The social context
Chapter 6: Defining child abuse and neglect
Chapter 7: The Challenges of Managing Uncertainty in Practice
Chapter 8: The process of assessing risk
Chapter 9: Making decisions
Chapter 10: How organisations can support effective practice
Chapter 11: Conclusion