Child Protection: Families and the Conference ProcessAshgate, 1999 - 248 pages This text explores the effect of involving parents in the conference process, on the decisions and recommendations made on the views and experiences of the professionals and families involved. It is based on a research design which involved comparisons of conferences and of areas where parents were invited and those where they were not. |
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relativity ambiguity and power | 21 |
Research methods and design | 39 |
The conferences and the participants | 55 |
Copyright | |
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agencies allegation ambiguity analysis Area Child Protection assessment attitudes behaviour chairperson chapter child abuse Child Protection Committee child protection conference child protection plan child protection register child protection system child sexual abuse Children Act 1989 Cleaver and Freeman concern conflict control areas difficult discussion effect emotional abuse evidence example experience explored factors family group conferences family members Farmer and Owen feel felt findings further Hallett Health Visitor identified initial child protection inter-agency intervention interviews invited involvement of parents involving parents issues justice meeting monitoring study mother natural justice neglect NSPCC nurses Paediatrician parental attendance parental involvement parents present participation partnership practice perspective pilot and control pilot area practitioners procedures professionals protect the child questionnaire referral relationship reported research studies respondents risk role seen sexual abuse shared social services department stage suggested Table task teams Thoburn et al.'s views