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Strengthening Child Protection: Sharing Information in Multi-Agency Settings
Kellie Thompson
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Description for Strengthening Child Protection: Sharing Information in Multi-Agency Settings
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What prompts information sharing and how do we get it right? This accessible book challenges widely held assumptions about information sharing in child welfare that facts about risks to children are clear and that sharing them with other professionals is a straightforward process. Essential reading for academics and policy makers, students on post-qualifying child protection courses, social workers, managers and all other professionals tasked with safeguarding children.
What prompts information sharing and how do we get it right? This accessible book challenges widely held assumptions about information sharing in child welfare that facts about risks to children are clear and that sharing them with other professionals is a straightforward process. Essential reading for academics and policy makers, students on post-qualifying child protection courses, social workers, managers and all other professionals tasked with safeguarding children.
Product Details
Publisher
Policy Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Bristol, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781447322511
SKU
V9781447322511
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99-50
About Kellie Thompson
Dr Kellie Thompson is a Senior Lecturer of Social Work (Children and Families) at the University of Bedfordshire, UK, and a practising local authority social worker in children's services. Her research interests are in the critical analyses of information practices in the context of inter-professional responses to children in need and their families.
Reviews for Strengthening Child Protection: Sharing Information in Multi-Agency Settings
Provides many important insights that can help all those concerned with achieving effective child protection to get high quality information sharing among professionals right. Harry Ferguson, University of Nottingham In a noisy, fast moving, and procedurally heavy world of child protection, this book is timely, insightful and deeply humane, with practical relevance for those committed to improving existing ... Read more