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Working together or pulling apart?: The National Health Service and child protection networks
Carol Lupton
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Description for Working together or pulling apart?: The National Health Service and child protection networks
paperback. This book examines the contribution of the NHS to the multi-agency and inter-professional child protection process. It examines the roles played by health professionals within child protection and investigates the nature and operation of the central policy community and local provider networks. Num Pages: 224 pages, 2figs.5tabs. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JHBC; JKSB1; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 149 x 13. Weight in Grams: 301.
In the context of the 'cross-cutting' policy ambitions of the current Labour government, Working together or pulling apart? examines the contribution of the NHS to the multi-agency and inter-professional child protection process. Applying the insights of policy network and inter-organisational analysis, the text: provides detailed information on the current role played by a range of health professionals within child protection; investigates the nature and operation of the central policy community and local provider networks; considers the tensions arising from differences of professional power and knowledge, organisational cultures and agendas, and governance and regulation; examines the impact of wider ... Read more
In the context of the 'cross-cutting' policy ambitions of the current Labour government, Working together or pulling apart? examines the contribution of the NHS to the multi-agency and inter-professional child protection process. Applying the insights of policy network and inter-organisational analysis, the text: provides detailed information on the current role played by a range of health professionals within child protection; investigates the nature and operation of the central policy community and local provider networks; considers the tensions arising from differences of professional power and knowledge, organisational cultures and agendas, and governance and regulation; examines the impact of wider ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Policy Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Bristol, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781861342447
SKU
V9781861342447
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Ref
99-50
About Carol Lupton
Carol Lupton is the Director of the Social Services Research and Information Unit and Reader in Applied Social Science at the University of Portsmouth. Nancy North is Principal Lecturer in Health Policy at the University of Portsmouth. Parves Khan is a Research Fellow in the Centre for International Social and Community Development at the University of Southampton.
Reviews for Working together or pulling apart?: The National Health Service and child protection networks
"... the authors of this slim volume manage to convey an impression of the current state of child protection in the UK that few committed professionals will wish to ignore." British Journal of Social Work "We should not ignore the findings of this text." Health Matters "... designed to make health service managers sit up and listen ... will help ... Read more