Canadian Child Welfare Law: Children, Families, and the State - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1550771442 ISBN 13: 9781550771442

Publisher: Thompson Educational Publishing, Inc., 2004

Synopsis

Canadian Child Welfare Law: Children, Families, and the State (2nd edition) provides students in social work and law with an introduction to child welfare law. This complex, demanding and important area of law and social work practice receives relatively little attention in professional schools and academic journals. For practicing lawyers and social workers who have not had the opportunity to study child welfare law, this book provides a useful overview of a complex area, as well as serving as a reference work for busy practitioners in the child welfare field. This second edition substantially updates material in the 1991 edition, including consideration of the impact of new legislation and the Charter of Rights. It also includes new chapters on liability issues for child welfare workers and agencies, and on the perspectives of social workers with respect to the legal process. The final chapter offers the personal views of four judges on the challenges that they face in dealing with child welfare cases.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thompson Educational Publishing, Inc.
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1550771442
• ISBN 13: 9781550771442
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 348
• Editor: Bala Nicholas, Zapf Michael K., Vogl Robin