num_pages: 560
description: The new edition of this popular handbook gives an authoritative, informative and accessible account of key areas of child protection practice. Covering research, policy and practice it is relevant to all professionals working in child care.This practical and evidence-based text is divided into three sections for understanding, managing, and intervening and training issues in child protection. It has been revised to incorporate recent changes and developments in the field including new material No other book on child protection offers such comprehensive coverage of policy and practice. It provides research findings in all areas of child abuse, latest policies and indications of good practice, plus specialist chapters for different professionals. Chapters have been contributed by known experts in the field, both distinguished academics and practitioners. By combining the latest factual information with sophisticated analysis, it is the ideal course text for child protection programmes as well as meeting the needs of more experienced practitioners, academics and trainers.
language: English
title: The Child Protection Handbook
titlecomplete: The Child Protection Handbook
ratings_count: 3
publisher: Bailliere Tindall