Protecting Children and Young People
from Harm and Abuse
Recognition and Response

 

Protecting Children and Young People from Harm and Abuse
By Rita Hannah Langton and Siobhan Maclean

 

Category:
Country:		 Social Care
England and Wales

Everyone who works with children and young people needs to have well developed skills in preventing, recognising and responding to harm and abuse. Understanding child protection issues is fundamental in ensuring effective practice in all work with children and young people in whatever field.

This book aims to equip childcare workers in all sectors with the key knowledge needed to identify and address issues of harm and abuse. Contents include:-

  • Understanding the Basic Framework

    Legislation, the policy framework, children’s rights.

  • Learning the Lessons

    Child deaths, failings in care services, Victoria Climbé Inquiry, Bichard Inquiry, Baby P.

  • Understanding Harm and Abuse

    Forms of abuse, institutional abuse, bullying, self-harm, domestic violence, cultural issues, children with disabilities, myths and assumptions.

  • Your Role in Protecting Children and Young People from Harm and Abuse

    Knowing your agency policy and procedure, safer care practices, recording, confidentiality and information sharing, disclosures of abuse, passing on concerns, child protection investigations, whistle-blowing.

  • Support for Yourself

    Getting support for yourself.

The book provides both essential information and a wide range of illustrative examples that link theory to daily practice.

A4 spiral bound; 136 pages
ISBN: 978-1-903575-61-1

£12

 

 

Frequently purchased together with:
 

Birth to Eighteen Years: Children
and the Law

Leadership in Children's Services


Health and Social Care (Children and Young People): Level 3

 

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