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Social Work and Child Abuse: The Impossible Profession (State of Welfare) (Hardcover)

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While social work practice with child abuse is a well documented topic, Social Work and Child Abuse actually challenges and changes the focus of existing literature. Instead of concerning itself with the ways in which the task of preventing and detecting child abuse, both physical and sexual, can be more effectively undertaken, this book presents a critical analysis of the task itself as it is currently conceived in the light of the 1989 Children Act. There have been a number of public inquiries, often after tragic deaths, in which social workers have been severely criticised, and as a result the social work profession itself has been stigmatised. Social Work and Child Abuse argues that it is the simultaneous statutory duty of social workers to prevent and detect child abuse and also to rehabilitate children with abusing parents/caretakers that at times will produce situations in which social workers are focused to a greater extent on any one of these duties at the expense of the others. This leaves them vulnerable to the periodic charge that they are either intervening to too great or too little an extent. Social Work and Child Abuse will be essential reading for all professionals in social and probation work, and students in social work, social policy and criminology.

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While social work practice with child abuse is a well-documented topic, this revised edition of Social Work and Child Abuse actually challenges and changes the focus of existing literature. Instead of concerning itself with the ways in which the task of preventing and detecting child abuse can be more effectively undertaken, it presents a critical analysis of the task itself.

There has been much new guidance and regulation since the first edition of Social Work and Child Abuse was published in 1996, making this a timely new edition. With a brand new introduction and conclusion, this fully revised text discusses:

    • the implications of Victoria Climbié Inquiry, the Laming Report, the Green Paper Every Child Matters and the 2004 Children Act

    • the 1989 Children Act and the conflicting duties of the social worker to prevent and intervene in child abuse and also to promote 'the family'

    • the emergence of official discourses of prevention, treatment and punishment

    • the 1975 Children Act and the role of moral panic

Concluding with a call for the full implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child to strengthen the child protection system by giving children and young people a much stronger voice, this book is essential reading for all professionals in social and probation work, and for students in social work, social policy and criminology.

Dave Merrick has extensive experience in child protection, as a child protection social worker, as a Children's Guardian and as a Principal Inspector for Children's Services. He is currently serving a secondment as the National Children's Rights and Participation Development Officer for the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (CAFCASS). He also lectures on social policy for the Open University.

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