Ten Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them. What research tells us?
- Document number
- 2641
- Date
- 2010
- Title
- Ten Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them. What research tells us?
- Author/publisher
- Fish Dr. Sheila, Fletcher Kay, Lincoln Helen, Dr. Broadhurst Karen , Professor White Sue, Professor Munro Eileen, National Society For The Prevention Of Cruelty To Children
- Availability
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- Document type(s)
- Research/Study/Analysis,
- Keywords
- Child Trafficking, Child Prostitution, Child Pornography, Best Interests Principle, Child Victims of Trafficking, Separated Migrant Children, Unaccompanied minors, Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), Child protection systems, Family reunification, Guardian, Family Tracing, Age Assessment, Freedom from Detention, Interim Care, Integration, Adoption,
- Summary
- The revised version of Working Together to Safeguard Children: A guide to inter-agency working (Department for Children, Schools and Families [DCSF], 2010) requires that initial assessment is undertaken by qualified and experienced social work practitioners. This is an important step forward in improving quality; however, even the most qualified practitioners will benefit from a reflexive awareness of both individual and systemic error traps. Writing in the context of very significant socio-technical changes in children's services, this revised version offers an updated bibliography of key material to inform practice. The modernisation agenda has significantly reconfigured the "front door" and this has given rise to a new set of literature that demonstrates a far greater awareness of the systemic or organisational context in which human errors occur.
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