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The carrot or the stick?: towards effective practice with involuntary clients in safeguarding children work
- Editors:
- CALDER Martin C., (ed.)
- Publisher:
- Russell House
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 296p.
- Place of publication:
- Lyme Regis
This publication offers systematic and evidence-based approaches to work with involuntary clients in safeguarding children and child protection work. Involuntary clients are those who resist involvement with services that are needed or offered. Chapters consider work with clients who: actively seek help in solving problems and in achieving personal goals; only accept services when legally mandated or institutionalized; show varying degrees of motivation at different times, towards different services, or within their family or group. Reflecting the importance of inter-agency approaches in policy, practice and training, the book draws from several different professional groups and disciplines. It devotes special attention to: strategies for making and maintaining working relationships in the new, broad and developing contexts of safeguarding children; the theoretical evidence-base, emerging research and developing practice wisdom; concepts of consent and coercion; and frameworks for understanding and working with motivation, resistance and change; engagement of children, young people, men/fathers as well as women/mothers in the intervention process; links between risk assessment; innovative ways of enhancing their clients motivation and helping them to change. The publication is relevant for staff working in the social care and criminal fields, psychologists, counsellors, as well as managers, trainers, researchers, policy-makers and students.
Assessment in child care: using and developing frameworks for practice
- Editors:
- CALDER Martin C., HACKETT Simon
- Publisher:
- Russell House
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 384
- Place of publication:
- Lyme Regis
- Edition:
- 2nd. ed.
Aimed at frontline workers with responsibility for child protection, safeguarding and family support, the new edition will help in navigating the expanding complexities of child care assessments. It draws on the published literature from many parts of the English-speaking world, and incorporates responses to major developments in the field, with increased emphasis on the importance of addressing risk. It includes completely new material, for example on working with parents with a learning disability. It also incorporates responses to the significant developments in UK legislation and guidance, including: the evolution of the Assessment Framework into the Common Assessment Framework and the Integrated Children's System; the Munro review of child protection; the change of government in 2010; and an eleventh hour concession in the 2013 edition of Working Together, that workers can talk about the reality of what they work with every day - risk. Content also covers: risk and child protection; supervising and managing staff undertaking assessments; assessment of child physical abuse, neglect, emotional abuse, failure to thrive, and sexual abuse; parental alcohol and substance misuse; involving children and young people in assessments; and assessing parenting capacity. (Edited publisher abstract)
A framework for conducting risk assessment
- Author:
- CALDER Martin C.
- Journal article citation:
- Child Care in Practice, 8(1), January 2002, pp.7-18.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The new assessment framework does not mention the term 'risk', preferring to reframe it as need. This article attempts to provide an operational framework for conducting risk assessments by exploring the definition, components and parameters of the concept. The author argues that by using the concept of risk in its fullest sense, eg, assessing for strengths and protective mechanisms as well as weaknesses, then it remains an important and central consideration in our work designed to safeguard child. The author also seeks to explore the context and preoccupation with risk, before moving on to provide some practical guidelines for conducting risk assessments, generally then specifically within the court process.
Child prostitution: developing effective protocols
- Author:
- CALDER Martin C.
- Journal article citation:
- Child Care in Practice, 7(2), June 2001, pp.98-115.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The government guidance 'Safeguarding children in prostitution: supplementary guidance to Working Together to Safeguard Children' was issued in 1999. This article explores the content of the guidance and locates it in a much broader framework developed by Calder (1999) for guiding local responses. Also attempts to explore some of the lessons learned in recent times about introducing 'new' types of abuse into the child protection system at a time when there is a central expectation of refocusing wherever possible cases away from the formal child protection system, based both on the client's experience of the service and the significant resource constraints facing mainstream social services.