Collaborative Practice with Vulnerable Children and Their Families (CAIPE Collaborative Practice Series) - Hardcover

Taylor, Julie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138456705 ISBN 13: 9781138456709

Publisher: Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

This book provides an overview of the reasons (both in law and from practice) why collaborative working is an essential part of the service needed by vulnerable children and their families. It is helpful for diverse range of practitioners, managers and trainers working in a variety of settings.

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About the Author

June Thoburn , CBE, LittD, is an emeritus professor of social work at the University of East Anglia (UEA). She qualified as a social worker in 1963 and worked in local authority child and family social work and generic practice in England and Canada before taking up a joint appointment at UEA in 1979. As a founding director of the UEA Centre for Research on the Child and Family and of the Making Research Count collaboration, she has a particular interest in finding innovative ways of helping social workers to use knowledge from a range of sources in their practice.

Julie Taylor , PhD, FRCN, RN, MSc, BSc (Hons), is a nurse scientist specializing in child maltreatment. She is professor of child protection in the School of Health and Population Science at the University of Birmingham, with previous chairs at the Universities of Edinburgh (NSPCC Child Protection Research Centre) and Dundee (School of Nursing and Midwifery). For three years (2010–2013) she was Head of Strategy and Development (Abuse in High Risk Families) with the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC). She is the author of eight books and over 100 academic articles.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138456705
• ISBN 13: 9781138456709
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 134