Collaborative Practice with Vulnerable Children and Their Families

Collaborative Practice with Vulnerable Children and Their Families focuses on the knowledge and skills needed by professionals who work across disciplines to meet the needs of parents and children experiencing complex difficulties. It establishes the importance of both interprofessional and interagency collaboration. After detailing the characteristics of parents and children who may be in need of specialized services, the authors describe different approaches to service delivery in theory and practice, provide case examples and exercises, and address the developments in interprofessional education for those currently working in the field. They present evidence supporting collaborative practice as a means of achieving better outcomes for vulnerable children and their families, and explore the difficulties in working successfully across agencies and disciplines. A provocative examination focused on the wellbeing of families in crisis and the care they receive, this book: Introduces terms that are used in collaborative practice Details the legal mandate for working with families experiencing complex problems Provides legal definitions of ‘children in need’ and with a right to receive "targeted" services Outlines the circumstances that require court action (family law and criminal law) to protect children from "significant harm" Collaborative Practice with Vulnerable Children and Their Families examines the values and ethical standards shared by all professionals who work together to help at-risk children and their families, and serves as a definitive guide to professionals in social work, nursing, general practice, pediatrics and related professions. A volume in the series CAIPE Collaborative Practice SeriesSeries edited by Hugh Barr and Marion Helme

Collaborative Practice: An Essential Component of the Service to Vulnerable Children and Their FamiliesIntroduction: Why This Workbook and Why Now?The Mandate to Work CollaborativelyThe Organisation of Service Delivery to Support Collaborative PracticeInterprofessional Education and Training for Collaborative Practice with Children and FamiliesKey Texts on Collaborative Working and IPEWho Are the Children and Families Most Likely to Need Additional Supportive and Protective Services?IntroductionWhich Children and Families Are Most Likely to Be in Need of Additional Services?What ‘Additional Services’ Might Be Needed?Case VignettesKey Texts on Children and Families Most Likely to Need Additional Supportive and Protective ServicesWorking Collaboratively within Legal Mandates and Statutory GuidanceOverview of the Legislative Powers and DutiesThe LegislationThe Duty to CollaborateServices Provided with Parental and Older Child AgreementCompulsory InterventionStatutory Orders Limiting or Terminating Parental Rights and ResponsibilityCriminal InvestigationsCollaborative Working When Children Are Looked AfterKey Texts on Working Collaboratively within Legal Mandates and Statutory GuidanceThe Value Base for Working Collaboratively with Vulnerable Children and FamiliesIntroduction: Shared Professional ValuesProfessional Codes of Ethics and StandardsRegistered ProfessionalsRecord Keeping and ConfidentialityConfidentiality and Information Sharing in PracticeKey Texts on Value Base for Working Collaboratively with Vulnerable Children and FamiliesThe Knowledge-Base for Collaborative PracticeThe Policy DimensionMessages from Research and Evaluations about Collaborative PracticeIssues Emerging from the Theoretical and Practice LiteratureConclusionKey Texts on the Knowledge-Base for Collaborative PracticeTowards Effective Collaborative PracticeIntroductionSome Approaches to Helping Vulnerable Children and FamiliesThe Essential Elements of Effective Interprofessional CollaborationCollaborative Practice in Action with ‘Vignette’ FamiliesConclusionKey Texts on Effective Collaborative PracticeCAIPE/Radcliffe Collaborative Practice Workbooks: Series AppendixReferences

June Thoburn, CBE, LittD, is an emeritus professor of social work at the University of East Anglia (UEA). She qualified as a social worker in 1963 and worked in local authority child and family social work and generic practice in England and Canada before taking up a joint appointment at UEA in 1979. As a founding director of the UEA Centre for Research on the Child and Family and of the Making Research Count collaboration, she has a particular interest in finding innovative ways of helping social workers to use knowledge from a range of sources in their practice. Julie Taylor, PhD, FRCN, RN, MSc, BSc (Hons), is a nurse scientist specializing in child maltreatment. She is professor of child protection in the School of Health and Population Science at the University of Birmingham, with previous chairs at the Universities of Edinburgh (NSPCC Child Protection Research Centre) and Dundee (School of Nursing and Midwifery). For three years (2010–2013) she was Head of Strategy and Development (Abuse in High Risk Families) with the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC). She is the author of eight books and over 100 academic articles.