Management of Child Protection Services

<p>First published in 1999 <i>The Management of Child Protection Services </i>is not about child abuse but about child protection. It is about the arrangements that professionals from different disciplines make to ensure they operate together effectively to protect the most vulnerable children in society. The book examines five different contexts of child protection: historical cross-cultural structural managerial and professional and consideration of the operation of Area Child Protection Committees. In exploring these contexts the book seeks to address such questions as: ‘how can universal standards be applied to protect vulnerable children whilst avoiding ethnocentrism?’ and ‘from where are derived historically and cross-culturally the models of child protection adopted in the UK today?’ It also seeks to identify the different professional contexts roles and contributions of agencies involved in child protection with a view to promoting interdisciplinary understanding. These questions and understandings are necessary if changes currently being contemplated are to enhance the effectiveness of child protection.</p>