Bestselling

The Child’s World, Third Edition

The Essential Guide to Assessing Vulnerable Children, Young People and their Families Edited by Jan Horwath and Dendy Platt

Completely updated and expanded edition of the bestselling guide to assessing vulnerable children, young people and their families.

This definitive textbook provides accessible information on best practice for assessing the needs and strengths of vulnerable children and their families. It explores the challenges that practitioners face routinely – with suggestions as to how to address them – as well as the established areas for assessment, of children’s developmental needs, parenting ability and motivation, and socio-economic factors.

This new edition has been extended substantially to include recent practice, policy and theoretical developments, such as understanding the lived experience of children, young people, and family members. It also considers children’s neurological development, assessing parental capacity to change, early help assessments, emerging areas of practice such as child sexual exploitation, and working with asylum-seeking and trafficked children.

Crucially, this updated edition takes a broader approach in offering relevant information to a range of professionals working with vulnerable children.

2018 | £26.99 | 696pp | tp | World rights available | isbN-9781784503826

Relationship-Based Social Work, Second Edition

Getting to the Heart of Practice Edited by Gillian Ruch, Danielle Turney and Adrian Ward

Foreword by David Howe

A thorough, cutting-edge guide to relationship-based practice in social work.

Updated and revised edition of the highly successful guide to relationship-based practice in social work. It communicates the theory using illustrative case studies and offers a model for practice. An invaluable textbook for social work students, practitioners on postqualifying courses and all social work professionals. Safeguarding Black Children

Good Practice in Child Protection Edited by Claudia Bernard and Perlita Harris

An exploration of the key issues surrounding child protection relating to black children.

Providing an exploration of the key issues, this book offers practical advice on how to improve the safeguarding and welfare of black children and young people in need.

With contributions from academics, researchers and practitioners, it promotes an understanding of the particular cultural and social issues that affect black children in relation to child protection. It highlights how race and racism, as well as culture, faith and gender, can influence the ways need and risk are interpreted and responded to. Drawing on insights from research evidence, case examples and practice guidelines, it outlines the range of factors that contribute to the vulnerability of black children and describes how to improve techniques of working with minority ethnic families. The book covers issues such as the effects of parental mental health problems, living with domestic violence, child maltreatment, and demonstrates how these might be understood differently for black children and young people. There are also chapters on topics such as female genital mutilation, witchcraft and forced marriage.

Essential reading for all social workers and child protection workers, as well as students and support managers, Safeguarding Black Children provides the tools and understanding needed to better support these children.

2016 | £25.00 | 288pp | tp | World rights available | isbN-9781849055697

Learning from Baby P

The politics of blame, fear and denial Sharon Shoesmith

Sharon Shoesmith examines what can be learnt from the tragic death of Peter Connelly, also known as Baby P. She gives a detailed account of events as they took place, reflects on the psychological, political and social dynamics involved, and considers the implications for child protection professionals, policymakers, politicians and the media.