Key Issues in Child Protection for Health Visitors and Nurses (Social services training manuals) - Softcover

 
9780582097544: Key Issues in Child Protection for Health Visitors and Nurses (Social services training manuals)

Synopsis

How can you tell that a child is being abused? And what approach should you take if you believe that a child is being abused or neglected? This book explores the challenges for health visitors and nurses, and provides practical guidelines for working in child protection. Topics covered include: gender, race and culture issues; promoting positive parenting; supervision versus control; communicating assertively, construction of child abuse in the Accident and Emergency Deptment; and the Children Act 1989.

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Synopsis

This is a guide to help health visitors to meet their responsibilities to protect children under the Children Act. It provides guidance on child protection specifically for health visitors and nurses and contains practical instruction based on practical experience.

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