Critical Perspectives on Safeguarding Children

✍ Scribed by Karen Broadhurst, Chris Grover, Janet Jamieson

• Publisher: Wiley
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 292
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A critical and evidence-based review of current and future child protection policy and practice.

•  Provides evidence-based perspective with an up-to-date overview of policy and practice
• Covers several disciplinary boundaries
• Goes beyond mere description to enable engagement in critical analysis of various policy areas as they relate to children and families

✦ Table of Contents

Critical Perspectives on Safeguarding Children......Page 5
Contents......Page 9
List of Contributors......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 15
Abbreviations......Page 17
1 Introduction: Safeguarding Children?......Page 19
2 Safeguarding Children: Historical Context and Current Landscape......Page 35
3 Every Child’s Rights Matter......Page 57
4 Child Poverty......Page 73
5 The Common Assessment Framework: Effective Innovation for
Children and Young People with ‘Additional Needs’ or Simply
More Technical Hype?......Page 91
6 Arguing the Case in Safeguarding......Page 111
7 Safeguarding Children through Parenting Support: How Does Every Parent Matter?......Page 129
8 Safeguarding Children’s Well-being within Educational Settings: A Critical Review of Inclusion Strategies......Page 149
9 ‘Health’ and Safeguarding Children: An ‘Expansionary Project’ or ‘Good Practice?......Page 167
10 ‘Be Healthy’: Drugs, Alcohol and Safeguarding Children......Page 189
11 In Search of Youth Justice......Page 207
12 Looked After Children and the Criminal Justice System......Page 229
13 Safeguarding Children Who Are Refugees or Asylum Seekers: Managing Multiple Scales of Legislation and Policy......Page 247
14 Conclusion: Safeguarding Children?......Page 265
Index......Page 277