PART I: INTRODUCTION TO YOUR SAGE COURSE COMPANION
PART II: CORE AREAS OF THE CURRICULUM
Running Themes in Child Protection Work
The History of Child Abuse
Current Policy
The Legal Framework
Dealing with Uncertainty
Using Research
What Is Child Abuse and Neglect?
Who Abuses and Why?
Emotional Abuse
Neglect
Physical Abuse
Sexual Abuse
What Can be Done to Make Children Safer?
PART III: STUDY, WRITING AND REVISION SKILLS - In Collaboration
with David McIlroy
General Introduction
How To Get the Most Out of Your Lectures
How to Make the Most of Seminars
Revision Hints and Tips
Exam Tips
Tips on Interpreting Essay and Exam Questions
PART IV: ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Eileen Munro is Professor of Social Policy at the London School of
Economics, London, UK. With a background in both philosophy and
social work, her work has focused on the reasoning skills needed to
provide an effective child protection service. The work was taken
up by many child protection services in several countries but, in
working with management and practitioners to improve risk
assessment and decision making, she realised that the individual
decision maker is strongly influenced by organizational and social
factors that also need to be understood in order to reduce error. A
powerful framework for doing this is provided by the systems
approach to investigating error that was developed in aviation and
has been adapted to medicine in the US and UK. Professor Munro then
worked with the Social Care Institute for Excellence in the UK to
adapt this approach to use in child protection services and it is
now being adopted widely in England. At the request of the
Secretary of State for Education, she undertook a review of child
protection in England and published the final report in April 2011,
followed by a progress report in May 2012.
Her extensive consultancy work with child protection services in
higher-income countries as well as her academic work makes her well
qualified to pull together an overview of the issues in child
protection.
`Although primarily aimed at social workers, the content of this work is very relevant for other professionals who work with and for children, including trainee lawyers as an introduction to social work practice and the principles of child care law and practice upon which it is based. The book also provides insight for lawyers into the standards to be expected of social workers, which is helpful in children law work. Eileen Munro writes form the perspective of a depth of academic knowledge and many years of experience. I like the clarity of her style, and the ease with which she shares information in a palatable way′ - Association of Lawyers for Children
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