Understanding Child and Family Welfare: Statutory Responses to Children at Risk

Professor Marie Connolly, Kate Morris

ISBN 10: 023025019X / ISBN 13: 9780230250192

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

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This book crosses international boundaries to explore contemporary child and family welfare practices. It traces the major changes and challenges in Western practice over the past decade, looks at evidence-informed practice, and focuses on the generic phases of the statutory process, including assessing risk and finding safe solutions.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: MARIE CONNOLLY Chair and Head of Social Work at the School of Health Sciences, University of Melbourne, Australia. She was previously the Chief Social Worker within the New Zealand government, and was Associate Professor and Director at the Te Awatea Violence Research Centre at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. She has published extensively in her area of scholarship, including eight related books, most recently Child Death by Maltreatment (2007), Morals, Rights and Practice in the Human Services (2008) and Social Work: Contexts and Practice 2nd Edition (2009). She holds an honorary professorship at the University of Auckland and she has a statutory background in child protection. KATE MORRIS Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham, UK. She was previously Head of Social Work at the University of Birmingham, UK.

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Titel: Understanding Child and Family Welfare: ...
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Very Good