Proactive Child Protection and Social Work - Paperback

by Liz Davies (Author), Nora Duckett (Author)

Protecting children from abuse and neglect is a serious and complex area of social work practice and understanding the critical skills of communicating with and listening to children′s voices, and those of their advocates and survivors, is essential. In this new edition of a highly-regarded book, the authors offer a strengthened children′s rights perspective and explore four main categories of child abuse - emotional abuse, sexual abuse, neglect and physical abuse. The book also considers legal safeguards and protective processes to increase the creativity and confidence of those undertaking such work.

Locating knowledge and skills within a series of case examples from real life practice and serious case reviews, this book is an indispensable resource for students, professionals and others concerned with protecting children. This second edition has been comprehensively revised and updated to include current research evidence and a focus on the neglected protection needs of sexually exploited young people, children in custody, disabled children, young carers and unaccompanied child migrants.

Author Biography

Liz Davies is senior lecturer in children and families social work at London Metropolitan University, specialising in training police and social workers in joint investigation and Achieving Best Evidence interview skills. Liz successfully supported Lisa Arthurworrey, social worker for Victoria Climbie, in her Care Standards Tribunal case against the Secretary of State. She provides consultancy to the media on child protection issues and has written widely on child protection issues.

Nora Duckett is Senior Lecturer in social work at London Metropolitan University. Having worked in social work since 1985, she joined the NSPCC in 1999 and worked to develop a service for young women sexually exploited through prostitution. She went on to manage a central government funded strategy project and helped to develop protocols across London to respond to young people who run away from care and home.