Developing Good Practice In Children's Services

✍ Scribed by Vicky White, John Harris

• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 210
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is concerned with how social workers and managers can engage reflectively and proactively with changes in children's services. Vicky White and John Harris have drawn together the contributors' experiences of working with children in a broad range of settings, emphasising ways in which the current context of change can be used as an opportunity to enhance the quality of service provision and achieve better outcomes for children and their families. The authors examine approaches to the assessment of children in need and the analysis of risk, and consider the impact of poverty and social divisions on children's lives. Highlighting key concepts, such as community development and multi-agency interventions, they anticipate likely policy developments for the future. Examples are provided of the planning and implementation of new initiatives including: * preventive education to protect children * positive reinforcement of children's cultural heritage * therapeutic approaches to sexually inappropriate behaviour * training programmes for foster carers. The real-life material on which the book draws can be used as source material by students undertaking qualifying programmes in health, social care and social work and by more experienced professionals to reflect on their own practice, particularly if they are undertaking post-qualifying courses - a timely resource for all staff and students seeking to develop good practice in children's services.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
......Page 1
Developing Good Practice
in Children’s Services......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
1
Changing Children’s Services......Page 9
2 Strategic Development:
Managing the Vision......Page 21
3 Analysing Risk in Child Protection: A
Model for Assessment......Page 44
4
Assessment of Children in Need
and their Families......Page 66
5 Children and Young People with Sexual Behaviour Difficulties:
A Practice Framework for Holistic Interventions......Page 83
6 Working in a Multi-agency Context:
Children’s Services Development Groups......Page 99
7 Taking Care:
Helping Children Learn to Keep Themselves Safer......Page 112
8
Recognising and Celebrating
Children’s Cultural Heritage......Page 126
9 Family Placements:
Matching Needs and Services......Page 139
10
Developing an NVQ Assessment
Centre for Foster Care......Page 153
11
Change…and More Change......Page 167
APPENDIX 1: THE EUROPEAN FOUNDATION FOR QUALITY MANAGEMENT (EFQM) EXCELLENCE MODEL
......Page 178
APPENDIX 2: ANALYSIS OF A SAMPLE OF 248 REFERRALS TO SIBS OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE REPORTED TO HAVE INITIATED INAPPROPRIATE SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR DURING THE FIVE-YEAR PERIOD 1997 TO 2001
......Page 179
APPENDIX 3: THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF STRATFORD CHILDREN'S SERVICES DEVELOPMENT GROUPS
......Page 190
APPENDIX 4: OUTCOME OF SURVEY ASSESSING WHAT CONSTITUENT MEMBERS OF LOCAL PARTNERSHIP TEAMS FELT ABOUT DEVELOPMENT GROUPS
......Page 192
REFERENCES
......Page 193
THE CONTRIBUTORS
......Page 202
SUBJECT INDEX
......Page 204
AUTHOR INDEX
......Page 209