The Child in Mind

All public sector workers in contact with children and families, in education as well as health and social care, need access to clearly written information about what to do if they are concerned about the safety and welfare of a child. Ensuring the safety of children who are at risk of harm is not an easy undertaking. It is sometimes difficult to assess the significance of information about a child, to gauge its seriousness or decide what to do next. This handbook helps practitioners to negotiate the complexities of child protection practice, with the aim of preventing abuse and neglect and protecting children from further harm once it has occurred. This fully updated fourth edition takes into account the revised Working Together to Safeguard Children document, NICE's guidelines When to Suspect Child Maltreatment and Lord Laming's report The Protection of Children in England. It explains how the child protection process works and covers all the key areas of child protection practice, including: risk assessment physical, sexual and emotional abuse neglect the child protection conference key changes in the legal framework and their application in practice. Clarifying a complex area of work, The Child in Mind provides sound advice aimed at improving individual practice. It is unique in that although it is directed to all health care workers, it can be used as part of in-service training, as a handy reference for students and indeed by anyone who works with children.

ISBN 0415609968   DEWEY edition DC22 ISBN13 9780415609968 (What's this?)   Pages 136 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd   Published in London Imprint Routledge   Height (mm) 246 Format Paperback   Width (mm) 174 Publication date 15 Aug 2012   Academic level Tertiary education, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY 362.760941

Introduction 1. Safeguarding Children 2. Partnership, Collaboration and Co-operation 3. Assessment of Risk 4. Physical Abuse 5. Sexual Abuse 6. Neglect 7. Emotional Abuse 8. Failure to Thrive 9. Abuse of Children with Disabilities 10. Parental Non-engagement 11. The Child Protection Conference 12. Records 13 The Legal Framework Appendix 1: The Common Assessment Framework Appendix 2: The Paediatric Assessment Suggested Reading

Praise for the third edition: "I am delighted, but not surprised, that the authors of this very practical book have been invited to take it into a third edition. It was important to bring up to date this most useful of handbooks as there have been so many changes in the legal framework governing child protection practice since the publication of the Victoria Climbie report... it gives me great pleasure to commend it in the hope it will be widely read and used." -- Lord Laming "This excellent handbook provides a pragmatic and concise approach to the complex subject of child protection. It covers all the key areas of knowledge required by the healthcare practitioner and would be a valuable reference in any clinical context." -- Nursing Standard "This handbook sets out to clearly indicate key objectives such as holistic child-centred practice that would serve to safeguard children more effectively in an ever-changing environment." -- Journal of Social Work

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