Risk in child protection: assessment challenges and frameworks for practice
Assessing risk is a key challenge in child protection work. Martin C. Calder presents a clear and accessible guide to understanding risk and the part it plays. This book considers what risk means and how risk assessments should be defined, it outlines the key challenges practitioners face day-to-day, and offers a helpful evidence-based assessment framework for use by frontline staff. Calder argues that risk now has to be reconceived as a multi-disciplinary activity which stretches beyond social…
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- Full title :Risk in child protection : assessment challenges and frameworks for practice / Martin C. Calder.
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Assessing risk is a key challenge in child protection work. Martin C. Calder presents a clear and accessible guide to understanding risk and the part it plays. This book considers what risk means and how risk assessments should be defined, it outlines the key challenges practitioners face day-to-day, and offers a helpful evidence-based assessment framework for use by frontline staff. Calder argues that risk now has to be reconceived as a multi-disciplinary activity which stretches beyond social work. As such, he highlights a need for a clearer shared terminology among professionals and encourages the social work profession to look to related disciplines, such as criminal justice, for ideas to improve practice. Demystifying the complex debates around risk and showing how to deliver effective risk assessment, this is an essential reference for social workers and social work students, as well as lecturers.
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- Publication Date:2016.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Jessica Kingsley Publishers
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2016.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (335 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780857008589, 0857008587
- oclc:ocn934056853
- LC Classification:HV751.A6
- Dewey Decimal:362.7
Table of Contents
Risk in Child Protection: Assessment challenges and frameworks for practice; Standardised chapter guidance; 1. Introduction: Policy Background; Professionally dangerous practice; Professional Accommodation Syndrome; Positive pathways to protection; Latent and active failures; Building an Emotionally Competent Organisation; Social Work Task Force (Gibb 2009); The preface to Munro and the battle to reclaim child protection; Multiple Munro manuscripts and missed opportunities; Working Together 2013: too little, too late; 2. Ten Key Challenges for Practice.
The challenges of professionals working togetherUnderstanding communication; Authority, and the challenges of partnerships with parents, carers and children; Partnerships with men; Partnerships with children; Worker challenges from the work; Hostage theory (Stanley and Goddard 1997); Leadership challenges; Thresholds, eligibility criteria and assessment practice; Barriers and blocks to identifying and managing risk; The challenges of evidence-based practice; What evidence can be brought before the court?; Critical thinking; Errors and their impact on workers and outcomes.
The exercise of professional judgmentsDefensible and sensi…
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