This authors of this book aim to provide a safeguarding resource forcommunity-based practitioners of current knowledge, research, innovativeideas and guidance within the policy context of the Laming and Bichardinquiries.
The early chapters present a useful synopsis of all the new key legaland policy elements that underpin the emerging safeguarding workingenvironment. This sets the scene for the development of an integrated,holistic and early intervention style of practice, focused on theindividual needs of children. These chapters and their accompanyingtraining materials would work well as a contribution to a localsafeguarding children board's introductory interagency trainingprogramme.
But the later chapters, which cover the signs, symptoms and explanationsfor child abuse, assessment and risk management, are only useful as anintroductory text for non specialists.
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