Children's Services

1. Introduction

Part 1: CHILDREN’S SERVIC ES
2. Children’s Help-seeking and Views of Services
3. Children’s Commissioners: Representing Children’s Interests and Views
4. Integrating Children’s Services
5. Getting it Right for Children: Promoting Effective Change
6. European Developments in Professional Practice with Vulnerable Children
7. Youth Justice: Policy and Practice

Part 2: COMMUNITY AND PARTICIPATION
8. Centre-based Services in the Early Years
9. Children, Social Networks and Social Support
10. The Police, the Community and Multi-Agency Work with Children and Young People
11. Teachers Working with the Community and Other Professionals: Full Service and Extended Schools
12. Taking Forward Children's and Young People’s Participation in Decision-making
13. Children’s Representation
14. Taking Children’s Citizenship Seriously

Part 3: EVIDENCE AND THEORY FOR PRACTICE WITH CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
15. Understanding Different Kinds of Family in Context
16. Protective and Risk Factors in Child Health
17. Infant Mental Health
18. Attachment and Loss in Childhood and Beyond
19. Accentuating the Positive: Resilience and Desistance Approaches to Children’s Needs and Behaviour
20. Working Together at Transition to Adulthood: Services for Young People with Learning Disabilities

Part 4: WORKING TOGETHER
21. Interprofessional and Inter-agency Cooperation: The Rough and the Smooth
22.Changing Children’s Services: A Social Capital Analysis
23. Working Together for Better Learning
24. Collaborating to Improve the Health of Looked-after Children.
25. Issues in Interprofessional Education
26. Working Together in Children’s Services: Constants and Changes

• Covers knowledge and understanding about children, their social environments and the service context; all relevant to any student planning to work with children and to all children’s professionals
• Includes contributions from education, social work, health, legal, police, sociological, psychological and political philosophy perspectives to provide a comprehensive view
• Sets service provision within UK legal and policy frameworks, acknowledging the impact of devolution and international obligations and making it immediately relevant to the reader
• Highlights children’s own perspectives on matters such as relationships with professionals, citizenship and participation to further student understanding of these topics
• Considers the relationships between services and the wider community locally and nationally to help the reader understand the impact services have in a wider setting
• Provides overviews of relevant research and key concepts, such as attachment, health inequalities, learning, resilience, desistance and transitions, to enhance and consolidate learning
• Offers a critical account of the factors and processes that help and hinder collaboration across agencies and professions, to deepen the reader's understanding of these systems

Expert Reviews

"I feel that this text is absolutely ideal for students who are studying at undergraduate level and I find that the text overall is easy to read and is in most parts very concise in conveying concepts and ideas... I will certainly be recommending it to others, and I also feel that this text would be beneficial to those already working in children's services as it provides a vital review of policy and practice development and how this has been shaped around a variety of different factors, including theory, international and European approaches, in addition to direction from central and localised government."

- Clare Pitkin, Childhood Studies student, Portsmouth University

"Clearly written and very accessible, the information in this book should make it a leader in text books for students but also for seasoned practitioners [...] It forces us to think beyond the structural to the cultural context of our work. [There is a] clarity of how to listen to children and work with them, respecting each one as a unique individual who will make their own mind up about who they will trust and share their thoughts with about important issues in their lives."

- Reviewed by Ruth Stark, Social Worker Manager, SASW in British Association of Managers magazine (Scotland)

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