Safeguarding Children, Young People and Families

Vida Douglas is the Professional Lead for social work programmes at the University of Hertfordshire. With over 20 years’ experience in social work, she has held several roles ranging from a social worker in children and families teams, an Independent Review Officer(IRO), a team manager for a safeguarding team, management of a children with disabilities service and policy officer for several local authorities. Vida has an interest in safeguarding and researching the experiences of children and parents in the safeguarding process. Julie Fourie has over a decade of experience in working for Local Authorities to safeguard children and young people. This has included working in a pre-birth assessment team as a social worker and within a Children with Disabilities Team as a Team Manager. Julie is currently a Family Court Advisor and Child’s Guardian. She is passionate about safeguarding. She is mindful of the power and influence social worker interventions have on children and their lives, and wants to ensure we get every intervention right.

• Chapter 1: Safeguarding: Setting the SceneChapter 2: The Voice of the Child and Young PersonChapter 3: Communicating with Adults and ProfessionalsChapter 4: Assessment: Managing Risk and Decision MakingChapter 5: Interventions: Achieving Good OutcomesChapter 7: The Resilient Social Work PractitionerChapter 8: Checklists for Effective PracticeChapter 6: Court Work

Children, young people, and their families are clearly at the forefront of this safeguarding book, the authors have been able to capture the essence of safeguarding. I would highly recommend this book for all Social Work practitioners, students or anyone that is interested in safeguarding processes, it is an absolute must!