Research Catalog

Title

Child protection : risk and the moral order / Nigel Parton, David Thorpe, and Corinne Wattam.

Author

Parton, Nigel

Publication

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan Press, 1997.

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Additional Authors

• Thorpe, D. H. (David H.), 1944-
• Wattam, Corinne

Description

xi, 276 p : ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

"Drawing on original research, this book provides a major critique of contemporary child protection research, policy and practice. In particular, it challenges current attempts across the modern world to reorder priorities and reconstruct the balance between family support and child protection." "The central focus of the book is to analyse and make explicit the nature of child protection work and the way practitioners respond to the inherent tensions and difficulties involved. It demonstrates that it is the notion of risk which has become key to both policy formation and practical decision-making, and it sets out the social and political context, showing how this is now framed in policy guidance and legislation. Arguing that in many respects previous research on risk has become a major part of the problem for policy-makers and practitioners, it makes a clear case for understanding how practitioners carry out their work and how they resolve the issues in practice." "The book looks in depth at: the way children are constructed in child protection records; the way social workers identify risk assessment criteria in their practice; the nature and form of advice and guidance offered to children and how this is received; and the outcome in cases of alleged sexual abuse. As such it is essential reading for anyone involved in the areas of child protection and child welfare, including both students and practitioners."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Abused children > Services for
• Child Abuse
• Child Abuse [MESH]
• Child Health Services [MESH]
• Child Welfare
• Child Welfare [MESH]
• Child welfare
• Social Work [MESH]
• United Kingdom

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-265) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Current Issues in Child Protection and Child Abuse: Some Common International Themes -- 2. The Contemporary Discourse of Child Protection -- 3. Orthodox Approaches to Child Abuse Risk: A Critical Appraisal -- 4. Deconstructing Child Protection: Some Methodological Choices -- 5. Finding the Child in Child Protection -- 6. Identifying Some Risk Assessment Criteria -- 7. Advice, Guidance and Normalisation -- 8. Deconstructing Outcomes in Cases of Alleged Sexual Abuse -- 9. The Future(s) for Child Protection.

ISBN

0333629477 (pbk)

OCLC

37229689

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library