Stella Coleman - Safeguarding Children and Young People

This is a book for anyone who wants to work with children or who needs to improve their knowledge of current policy and practice aimed at safeguarding children and young people. In this valuable addition to the Social Work Skills Series, Corinne May-Chahal and Stella Coleman bring together their considerable teaching and practice experience to provide a reliable and practical guide to child protection work.

Safeguarding Children and Young People covers the range of practice issues raised by child maltreatment that will confront frontline workers in child care and related fields. These include:

maltreatment assessment and risk management

achieving inclusive anti-discriminatory practice

working therapeutically with children

working together with parents

legal requirements and going to court.

Sources of support are highlighted and practical suggestions are made throughout the book for practitioner survival and development.

This core text takes an evidence-based approach to child protection and makes use of contemporary research policy and case studies. It is also a practical aid to learning, providing readers with extensive exercises to evaluate their progress.

Corinne May-Chahal is Professor of Applied Social Science at Lancaster University and Stella Coleman is Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Central Lancashire.

the social work skills series

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places practice in its policy context

relates practice to relevant research

provides a secure base for professional development

This new, skills-based series has been developed by Routledge and Community Care working together in partnership to meet the changing needs of today's students and practitioners in the broad field of social care. Written by experienced practitioners and teachers with a commitment to passing on their knowledge to the next generation, each text in the series features: learning objectives; case examples; activities to test knowledge and understanding; summaries of key learning points; key references; suggestions for further reading.

Also available in the series:

Managing Aggression

Ray Braithwaite

Consultant and trainer in managing aggression at work. Lead trainer and speaker in the No Fear campaign.

Commissioning and Purchasing

Terry Bamford

Former Chair of the British Association of Social Workers and Executive Director of Housing and Social Services, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

Tackling Social Exclusion

John Pierson

Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Social Work and Applied Social Studies at the University of Staffordshire.

SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND
YOUNG PEOPLE

Corinne May-Chahal and Stella Coleman

First published 2003 by Routledge
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Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
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2003 Corinne May-Chahal and Stella Coleman

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Corinne May-Chahal (previously Wattam)

Professor of Applied Social Science

BA Hons (Sociology), DASS, CQSW, PhD

Following seven years in practice as a social worker and three years as a research practitioner, Corinne became NSPCC Research Fellow at Lancaster University, continuing research for policy development in relation to child care and protection. Early work concerned the nature of evidence in cases of offences against children and membership of the Home Office Steering Group that drafted the Memorandum of Good Practice for Interviewing Children in Criminal Proceedings. Subsequently, she became Co-ordinator of the Concerted Action on the Prevention of Child Abuse in Europe (CAPCAE). Corinne joined the University of Central Lancashire in 1998 as Professor of Child Care. Since then she has managed or participated in further EU-based projects including the Control and Use of Personal Information on Child Sex Offenders (CUPICSO), Social Inclusion and Family Support (SIFS) and PANDORA, a comparative project on the use of confidentiality in relation to reporting child maltreatment. As a result of this work Corinne was invited to be a temporary task adviser to WHO European and World consultations on child abuse. She has published widely on the subject of child protection.

Stella Coleman

Stella Coleman has worked with children and their families for thirty years in a range of contexts and settings. She is currently a senior lecturer in social work at the University of Central Lancashire, a PQ assessor and an Independent Family Group Conference Co-ordinator. Previous roles include community development; women's refuge worker, senior social worker in a child protection unit and a children and families fieldwork team manager. She has a long-standing commitment to effective inter-disciplinary working and has developed and delivered joint training to social workers, police, teachers and nurses.