Addresses an urgent need to ensure that social care interventions provide better long term outcomes for neglected children across services.
Suitable for those who need the evidence about safeguarding children, including policymakers, social workers and professionals in health care and the family justice system, this book addresses an urgent need to ensure that social care interventions provide better long term outcomes for neglected children across services.
Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction: What We Know. 2. Study Aims and Methods. 3 The Children and their Early Experiences. 4. Services and Interventions. 5. Case Management: Responding to Risk and Working with Safeguarding Procedures and the Courts. 6. Case Management: Working with Parents and Children and Overall Patterns of Case Management. 7. Social Workers' Perspectives. 8. Interviews with Parents and Children. 9. The Children's Progress and Outcomes. 10. Explaining Outcomes. 11. Implications for Policy and Practice. Appendix. References. Index.