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Child Protection Practice
Harry Ferguson
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Description for Child Protection Practice
Paperback. What happens when social workers leave their desks to carry out home visits? Harry Ferguson provides a rich and compelling insight into day-to-day child protecting practice. Capturing the sight, smell and feel of the home visit, he outlines the realities and complexities of face-to-face social work within this challenging field. Num Pages: 208 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JKSB1; JKSN. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 159 x 232 x 15. Weight in Grams: 392.
How do practitioners step up to the professional challenge of keeping children safe? Leading author Harry Ferguson draws on his own research, personal experience and real-life case studies to challenge the way we think about child protection. This highly original and engaging book captures the daily reality of practice within life's most personal spaces, and offers a rare insight into the lived experience of working with vulnerable children, their parents and other carers. An inspiring declaration of the need for a new, intimate approach to child protection, this ground-breaking book lays the foundations of skilful, authoritative practice. It is ... Read more
How do practitioners step up to the professional challenge of keeping children safe? Leading author Harry Ferguson draws on his own research, personal experience and real-life case studies to challenge the way we think about child protection. This highly original and engaging book captures the daily reality of practice within life's most personal spaces, and offers a rare insight into the lived experience of working with vulnerable children, their parents and other carers. An inspiring declaration of the need for a new, intimate approach to child protection, this ground-breaking book lays the foundations of skilful, authoritative practice. It is ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
398g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230242838
SKU
V9780230242838
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50
About Harry Ferguson
HARRY FERGUSON Chair in Social Work, School of Sociology & Social Policy, Faculty of Social Sciences, Law and Education, University of Nottingham, UK.
Reviews for Child Protection Practice
Utterly distinct in portraying the reality of how the job looks, feels, smells and sounds as practitioners move between office, car and home.
Professor David Howe, author of 'Child Abuse and Neglect: Attachment, Development and Intervention'
Professor David Howe, author of 'Child Abuse and Neglect: Attachment, Development and Intervention'