Working for Children on the Child Protection Register
To Janet, whose love and support have motivated me to complete this task. To Liam, Adam and Laura, who will never be forgotten, and to my mum and dad for giving me the best foundation from which to build. To Stacy Laura, born 15 February 1998. This book is as much theirs as it is mine.
M ARTIN C. C ALDER
To Baz, Kate and Rachell for giving me encouragement and support when it was most needed.
J AN H ORWATH
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Contents
Jan Horwath and Martin C. Calder
Jan Horwath and Martin C. Calder
Martin C. Calder and Jan Horwath
Christine Samra-Tibbetts and Barry Raynes
Barbara Firth
Elaine Baxter and Bobbie Print
Alastair Christie and Helle Mittler
Martin C. Calder
Tony Morrison
Sharon Anne Cooke
Jane Appleton and Jill Clemerson
Anne Peake and Julie Turner
Michael Murphy
Guide
We would like to thank those who were involved in planning and participating in the National Conference core groups, Central to Child Protection Myth or Reality?, particularly Barbara Hayes and Margaret Bissell. It was as a consequence of the needs identified at the conference that this book was written.
Thanks are also due to the Leigh library staff, for seeking and finding some obscure references and to Joanne Crossland, who patiently typed the final script, coping with our indecipherable handwriting.
Jane Appleton is Principal Lecturer in the Department of Nursing and Paramedic Sciences at the University of Hertfordshire where she was formerly a senior lecturer in nursing. She trained and worked as a nurse in Sheffield, before moving to London to undertake her health visitor training. Jane worked full-time as health visitor for Harrow Community NHS Trust until October 1992 and has subsequently been employed as a health visitor for West Hertfordshire Community (NHS) Trust. Her research interests focus on health visitors child protection work and use of professional judgements in identifying families needing increased support/interventions. Jane is currently a part-time doctoral student at Kings College, London University and has published a number of research papers on health visiting and contributed to professional publications.
Elaine Baxter is an independent social work consultant and trainer. She delivers training on a range of child care subjects to professionals who work with children. She also undertakes assessments in connection with legal proceedings. Elaine works as a guardian ad Litem and is editor of the journal of the National Association of Guardians ad Litem and Reporting Officers.
Martin C. Calder is a child protection coordinator with City of Salford Community and Social Services Directorate. He has interests in developing inter-agency post-registration practice, especially core groups, and working with juveniles who sexually abuse and with adult sex offenders. He has published extensively in these fields and was recently invited to join a panel of experts on child abuse in Auckland, New Zealand.
Alastair Christie has been employed as a social worker and social work manager in England and Canada. He is currently employed as a lecturer in the Department of Applied Social Studies at University College Cork and is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Applied Social Science at Lancaster University.
Jill Clemerson was formerly a nurse adviser (child protection) with the City and East London Family and Community Studies (CELFACS) project in Tower Hamlets, London. She has been actively involved in training and writing about child protection matters for the Health Visitors Association.
Sharon Anne Cooke is Team Leader, Children and Families, Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council. After gaining a BA (Hons) degree, she was employed in residential social work for 12 months before taking the Certificate of Qualification in Social Work (CQSW) and Diploma in Social Work at University College, Cardiff. She qualified in 1986 and gained employment with Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council, working in child care/child protection. She was appointed to the post of Team Leader in 1992. She gained a Diploma in Child Protection in 1993 and is currently undertaking a Post Graduate Diploma in Management.
Barbara Firth is a freelance trainer, researcher and consultant, as well as a member of the Professional Development Group at the University of Nottingham. She has had extensive work experience in statutory and voluntary social work agencies as a practitioner and a manager. Her current interests include all aspects of child protection and child welfare, assessment, team building, group work and interprofessional training.
Jan Horwath is a lecturer in social work studies. She undertakes research, consultancy and training for Area Child Protection Committees, social services departments and health trusts. Her professional and research interests include training and professional development, child protection practice and the management of child protection services. She has written books and articles in these fields.
Helle Mittler is a freelance trainer, consultant and researcher. She has many years experience, first as a psychiatric social worker/team leader in the Manchester schools psychological and child guidance service and then as a trainer and staff development officer in a social services department. She has written extensively about working with parents and families of disabled children and adults and in the field of child protection. She has conducted workshops and lectured in many countries in Europe, Asia and South America.
Tony Morrison is an independent social care trainer and consultant. He works with staff and managers in social services, health, probation and other agencies. His main areas of work are supervision, inter-agency collaboration, risk management and motivational interviewing. He has written Supervision in Social Care (Pavillion, 1993) and (with Jan Horwath) Effective Staff Training in Social Care: From Theory to Practice (Routledge, 1998).