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The social worker's guide to children and families law /

This is the only book social workers need to make sense of the key elements of children's and family law. Now in a fully updated second edition, it reflects recent changes including the Working Together to Safeguard Children guidelines for inter-agency working, Children and Families Act 2013 an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Davis, Lynn
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2014.
Edición:2nd ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Fundamentals
  • Human rights
  • Key points in children and families law
  • Parents, parental responsibility and children's autonomy
  • Private law
  • Section 8 orders, specific issues and prohibited steps
  • Arrangements for children (residence) and special guardianship orders
  • Arrangements for children (contact)
  • The local authority's support role
  • Children in need
  • Accommodation
  • Child protection
  • Child protection investigations
  • Emergency action
  • Care proceedings
  • Threshold criteria
  • Care proceedings : interim stages
  • Care proceedings : care orders and care plans and contact
  • Care plans
  • Adoption fundamentals and adoption by consent
  • Placement orders, contested adoptions and contact
  • Appendices
  • 1a. children act : key sections by number
  • 1b. children act : key sections by subject
  • Residence, special guardianship and adoption at a glance
  • Contact aide : memoire
  • Care and accommodation at a glance
  • Summary of duties to looked after children
  • Emergency protection order aide memoire
  • Care and supervision orders at a glance.