| Description |
1 online resource (306 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Child welfare outcomes |
| Contents |
Foreword / Maria Eagle -- Preface -- A note on the book -- Safeguarding and promoting the well-being of children, families and communities / Harriet Ward and Jane Scott -- Part I. Evidence of need ; Promoting the health and well-being of children : evidence of need in the UK / Fran Bennett -- Policies in the UK to promote the well-being of children / Gillian Pugh -- The impact of US welfare reform on children's well-being : Minnesota focus / Anthony Bibus, Rosemary Link, and Michael O'Neal -- |
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Part II. Effective interventions to promote children's health and well-being ; Support teams for adolescents / Nina Biehal -- Catching children as they fall : the East Dunbartonshire looked after children mental health project / Michael van Beinum, Andy Martin, and Chris Bonnett -- Promoting the health and well-being of indigenous minority children in Canada and Australia / Richard Budgell, Mike Clare, Jennifer Noonan, and Lynn Robertson -- 'Better than being at home' : disabled children's views about school / Clare Conners and Kirsten Stalker -- The voice of young people : reflections on the care experience and the process of leaving care / Kathleen Kufeldt and Mike Stein -- |
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Part III. Promoting the well-being of vulnerable families ; Themes from a UK research initiative on supporting parents / David Quinton -- The Canada pre-natal nutrition program and breaking the cycle : a nation's response to programming for its most vulnerable citizens / Judy Watson and Margaret Leslie -- Promoting the well-being of children and families : what is best practice? / Geoffrey Nelson -- Shared family care : child protection and family preservation in action / Richard Barth and Amy Price -- |
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Part IV. Promoting the well-being of vulnerable communities ; Housing issues in child welfare : a practice response with service and policy implications / Bruce Leslie -- Searching for impacts of a community-based initiative : the evaluation of '1, 2, 3, GO!' / Camil Bouchard -- Part V. Conclusion ; Dude, where's my outcomes? : Partnership working and outcome-based accountability in the UK / Mark Friedman, Louise Garnett, and Mike Pinnock -- Evaluating interventions and monitoring outcomes / Jane Scott, Terry Moore, and Harriet Ward |
| Summary |
Improving the well-being of children is more effective when social care professionals work with the children's parents, families, and communities. This collection brings together innovative interventions designed to nurture children's health and welfare, and analyses which types of programmes are most effective and why. The contributors explore the impact of poverty on children's development and assess national initiatives set up to assess and reduce need. They present examples from the UK, US, Canada, and Australia of specific interventions to counter or prevent difficulties in the domains of child development, parenting capacity and wider environmental factors. Many contributions demonstrate the importance of engaging with service users and helping communities to shape and direct their own programmes for change. The final section of the book presents useful approaches to assessing and evaluating services. Demonstrating the need for close inter-agency collaboration and "joined up" services, this book is essential reading for policy makers, managers and practitioners in child welfare agencies, and social work academics and students |
| Bibliography |
Includes glossary (pages 274-278), bibliographical references (pages 279-295), and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Child welfare.
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Children with social disabilities -- Services for
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Social work with children.
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Family social work.
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Child welfare -- Evaluation
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Abused children -- Services for.
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Child welfare -- Government policy
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Abused children -- Services for
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Child welfare -- Evaluation
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Child welfare -- Government policy
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Children with social disabilities -- Services for
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Family social work
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Scott, Jane, 1968- editor.
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Ward, Harriet, 1948- editor.
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Eagle, Maria. author of foreword.
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| ISBN |
9781846422461 |
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1846422469 |
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