What does the novice practitioner or the experienced practitioner moving into child care work from another sector need to know to practice effectively? What skills do they need to call on?

In this valuable addition to The Social Work Skills Series, Stella Coleman and Corinne May-Chahalan bring together their considerable teaching and practice experience to provide a reliable and practical guide to child protection work. Topics covered include:

The legal and procedural context
The professional context
Explanatory theoretical frameworks and models of practice
Managing risk
Evidence-based practice
Social work interventions
Parents, carers and families
Continuing professional development

This will be an essential text for all students, teachers and professionals working with children and families.

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. The need to stop rape is pressing and, since it is the outcome of a wide range of practices and institutions in society, so too must the policies be to stop it This important book offers a comprehensive guide to the international policies developed to stop rape , together with case study examples on how they work. The book engages with the law and criminal justice system, health services, specialised services for victim-survivors, educational and cultural interventions, as well as how they can best be coordinated. It is informed by theory and evidence drawn from scholarship and practice from around the world. The book will be of interest to a global readership of students, practitioners and policy makers as well as anyone who wants to know how rape can be stopped.

Focusing on online facilitated child sexual abuse, this book takes a rigorous approach to existing literature to address some of the most pressing public and policy questions surrounding the evolution of this type of abuse. It examines which children are most vulnerable to online facilitated sexual abuse, how their vulnerability is made, what they are vulnerable to and how resilience, both human and technical, can be promoted.