Creating Safer Organisations: Practical Steps to Prevent the Abuse of Children by Those Working With Them

Erooga,marcus

ISBN 10: 111997268X / ISBN 13: 9781119972686

Published by John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2012

About this Item

High profile child abuse cases of recent years have brought child safety forward in public consciousness. This book, written for managers and trustees of organizations working with children as well as criminal justice staff working with sex offenders, offers practical safety measures for children's organizations. Editor(s): Erooga, Marcus. Series: Wiley Child Protection & Policy Series. Num Pages: 210 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFE1; JKSB1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 135 x 10. Weight in Grams: 282. . 2012. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Creating Safer Organisations: Practical Steps to Prevent the Abuse of Children by Those Working With Them
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 111997268X
• ISBN 13: 9781119972686
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

An accessible resource to help those in organisational settings ensure that they have taken all possible steps to safeguard the children and young people they are responsible for.

• Draws on up to date research with people who have committed sexual offences against children in organisational settings, and new developments in interviewing approaches
• Details recent cases to illustrate points about institutional failures in protecting children
• Highlights the fact that those who sexually offend against children are a diverse and heterogeneous population, and the approaches taken to protect children must address the range of possible risks
• Makes a firm commitment to the importance of multi-agency and inter-disciplinary collaboration and is relevant in both community and residential settings
• Offers clear and practical messages and measures for organisations to act on

About the Author

Marcus Erooga is NSPCC Theme Adviser for Child Sexual Abuse and a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Huddersfield's Centre for Childhood Studies. He is also immediate past Chair of the National Organisation for the Treatment of Abusers (NOTA). He has studied staff and volunteers who may present a risk to children in the workplace,  and also undertaken research with people convicted of sexual offences in those settings. A past editor and current Board member of the Journal of Sexual Aggression, Marcus has authored and edited some 25 publications on child protection related issues.