the National Health Service and child protection networks /
Carol Lupton, Nancy North and Parves Khan.
Bristol, UK :
Policy Press,
2001.
1 online resource (iv, 219 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-207) and index.
WORKING TOGETHER OR PULLING APART?; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Models and metaphors: the theoretical framework; 2. Policy communities and provider networks in child protection; 3. Knowledge and networks; 4. Accountability, agencies and professions; 5. Power and politics in the NHS; 6. Reluctant partners: the experience of health and social care collaboration; 7. A system within a system: the role of the Area Child Protection Committee; 8. Agents of change? The role of the designated and named health professionals; 9. Sleeping partners: GPs and child protection.
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This book examines the contribution of the NHS to the multi-agency and inter-professional child protection process. It examines the roles played by health professionals within child protection and investigates the nature and operation of the central policy community and local provider networks. The book also examines the impact of wider socio-political changes on the operation of the child protection process.
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