Beschreibung:
Carol Lupton is the Director of the Social Services Research and Information Unit and Reader in Applied Social Science at the University of Portsmouth. Nancy North is Principal Lecturer in Health Policy at the University of Portsmouth. Parves Khan is a Research Fellow in the Centre for International Social and Community Development at the University of Southampton.
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.
Models and metaphors - the theoretical framework; Policy communities and provider networks in child protection; Knowledge and networks; Accountability, agencies and professions; Power and politics in the NHS; Reluctant partners - the experience of health and social care collaboration; A system within a system: the role of the Area Child Protection Committee; Agents of change? The role of the designated and named health professionals; Sleeping partners - GPs and child protection; Health visitors and child protection; "Healthy" networks? NHS professionals in the child protection front line; Conclusion.