Child Protection, Public Health and Nursing

Highlighting and examining the vital role of nurses in protecting children from maltreatment, this book explores the input of nurses from different disciplines to the work of protecting children and young people. It draws on relevant theoretical, research and policy literature but focuses in particular on the evidence base for the value of their work.While orientated towards UK practice, the book includes some comparative material to add a wider European perspective. The text includes discussion of specialist public health nursing roles such as health visiting and school nursing, as well as the contribution of those who have more general nursing roles but whose work brings them into contact with children, young people and their families.This volume will inform all qualified nurses working in acute care and primary care settings who have contact with children, young people and their families. It will also be of use to those undertaking post-qualifying and post-graduate courses and is particularly relevant for Specialist Community Public Health Nurses (SCPHNs) many of whom, once qualified, have significant child protection roles in practice.

The EditorsDr Jane V. Appleton is Professor of Primary and Community Care, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Oxford Brookes University. Dr Sue Peckover is Senior Lecturer in Health Visiting, Centre for Health and Social Care Research, Sheffield Hallam University.The ContributorsDr Caroline Bradbury-Jones is Reader in Nursing at the University of Birmingham.Dr Eija Paavilainen is Professor of Nursing Science at the School of Health Sciences, University of Tampere, Finland.Dr Catherine Powell is a freelance Safeguarding Children Consultant and a Visiting Academic at the University of Southampton.Dr Suzanne Smith is Head of Safeguarding at a large NHS acute trust.Julie Taylor is Professor of Child Protection at the University of Birmingham