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  • Transitional Safeguarding

    This book powerfully sets out the case for Transitional Safeguarding, a new approach to protection and safeguarding designed to address the needs and behaviours of young people in their mid-teens to mid-twenties who are falling between gaps in current systems, with often devastating results.Addressing these gaps, it outlines how the specific needs of young people can be met through this approach. ... Read more

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  • Adult Safeguarding and Homelessness

    Understanding Good Practice

    Series series Knowledge in Practice
    This one stop resource highlights evidence-informed practice and serves as an accessible and invaluable resource for all working with individuals experiencing multiple exclusion homelessness and adult safeguarding.This book brings together the best research evidence, service development knowledge, practice expertise and the voices of people with lived experience to help social workers and ... Read more

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  • Safeguarding Young People

    Risk, Rights, Resilience and Relationships

    Series series Knowledge in Practice
    Focusing on young people and adolescence, this book explores the complexity of contemporary adolescent safeguarding. It highlights evidence-informed practice and innovation in this area at the work, serving as an accessible and invaluable resource for all working with and supporting young people facing risk and harm.Core themes covered by the book are the nature of harms facing some young people, ... Read more

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  • Safeguarding Adults Under the Care Act 2014

    Understanding Good Practice

    Practice in safeguarding adults is changing, with a shift in approach to ensure it is person-centred and outcome-focused. The Care Act 2014 introduced new safeguarding duties for local authorities, and this book describes what up-to-date practice should look like, and how to provide the best quality care and support for adults who may be at risk of abuse or neglect.Chapters cover core areas of ... Read more

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  • Mental Health

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    Mental health social work is at an impasse. On the one hand, the emphasis in recent policy documents on the social roots of much mental distress ,and in the recovery approaches popular with service users seems to indicate an important role for a holistic social work practice. On the other hand, social workers have often been excluded from these initiatives and the dominant approach within mental ... Read more

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  • The short guide to social work

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    This engaging and accessible text offers a concise overview of social work which will appeal to anyone needing a quick introduction to social work as a discipline. It contains essential information for all prospective and new social work students, the theories and policy and practice frameworks as well as current issues facing social work today. Illustrated with many examples from practice, it ... Read more

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  • Social Work

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  • Safeguarding Adults Together under the Care Act 2014

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    The Care Act 2014 has been criticised for the lack of a clear process for professionals to follow. With its emphasis on the personal individual approach to safeguarding, professionals have sometimes felt unclear as to how they should deliver safeguarding support.Written by a practitioner, with an academic background, Safeguarding Adults Together seeks to provide that vital guidance. Whilst there ... Read more

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  • Working with Children, Young People and Families

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    This book is essential reading for anyone studying and working in the new integrated children′s services. The Children′s Workforce Development Strategy sets out the basic skills and knowledge needed by people whose work brings them into regular contact with children, young people and their families. Built around this Common Core of Skills and Knowledge and packed with case studies and reflective ... Read more

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  • Working Together in Children's Services

    The importance of interagency cooperation within children’s services has been highlighted within recent government strategy, including the Every Child Matters agenda, the development of Children’s Centres and the expansion of Extended Schools. Following tragic cases such as Victoria Climbie, the need for effective multi-disciplinary teamwork and interagency co-operation across all education and ... Read more

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  • Childhood in Society for the Early Years

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    To understand childhood, you need to understand all of the social factors which surround it.If you are studying Early Years or Early Childhood Studies then this book is for you. It gives you an introduction to the study of childhood and the different contexts within which childhood exists. It encourages you to re-think childhood and explore it from different perspectives, whether looking at the ... Read more

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