Ten Top Tips for Identifying Neglect

This book will help workers to consider their role in identifying and responding to child neglect. Each chapter presents a basic tip in an accessible style, including understanding why parents neglect their children; the lessons to be learned from serious case reviews; and how best to intervene to improve children s lives. Multi-agency working is also considered, with strategies for ensuring this is successful and child-focused. Social care practitioners, both newly qualified and with more experience, along with those working with children and families in disciplines such as health and education, will find Ten Top Tips for Identifying Neglect invaluable for quick reference as well as a prompt for further thought and exploration.