Child Protection Practice

How do practitioners step up to the professional challenge of keeping children safe?Leading author Harry Ferguson draws on his own research, personal experience and real-life case studies to challenge the way we think about child protection.This highly original and engaging book captures the daily reality of practice within life's most personal spaces, and offers a rare insight into the lived experience of working with vulnerable children, their parents and other carers. An inspiring declaration of the need for a new, intimate approach to child protection, this ground-breaking book lays the foundations of skilful, authoritative practice.It is a must for Social Work student and practitioners within this challenging field.