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Strengthening child protection : sharing information in multi-agency settings /
Following high-profile Serious Case Reviews into the tragic deaths of children, including Victoria Climbie, Peter Connelly, and Daniel Pelka, information sharing has now become a moral and political imperative for safeguarding the welfare of children. What prompts information sharing and how do we g...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol :
Policy Press,
[2016]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- STRENGTHENING CHILD PROTECTION
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Figures
- Table
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- 1. Introduction
- A continued issue
- Structure of the book
- 2. The significance of 'information sharing' in safeguarding children
- Introduction
- Shaping the child protection system: messages from public inquiries
- Beginning the formalisation process of 'working together' and 'information sharing'
- 'Every child matters' and the 'informational turn'
- Post-Climbié and e-technology developments
- Bringing the referral process into the political spotlight
- Post-modernisation: the effectiveness of the Climbié reforms
- From New Labour to the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government
- From public inquiries to reforms in child welfare: a summary of what has been learnt
- 'Information sharing' in professional practices
- Starting to think critically about information sharing
- Destablising officialdom: clear consequences of early categorisation and interpretation
- 3. So, what is this thing we call 'information'?
- Introduction
- Referrals as a dialect of information sharing
- Referral information and indexicality
- Information as text
- Information 'design' using organisational 'tools of the trade'
- Information as 'foreign' currency: 'transactions' and the 'value' of information
- Conclusion
- 4. Understanding professional information need and behaviours
- Introduction
- Using flowcharts to understand 'information sharing' and 'information behaviour'
- Uncertainty and information-seeking behaviour
- Information as social practice: context and place
- The social organisation of information as text
- Applying information behaviour theory into child welfare practices
- Foregrounding professional need in everyday practice
- Conclusion.
- 5. How is information shared in 'everyday' practice?
- Introduction
- The relationship between child death inquiries and information sharing
- Timeliness as a key factor in 'effective' information sharing
- Reflections of policy mantras: getting the information 'right'
- Procedural relationships: 'who' to pass on information to and 'when'
- Conclusion
- 6. Putting pieces of the 'jigsaw' together to establish a 'full' picture
- Introduction
- The political resonance of securing a 'full' picture
- The jigsaw metaphor
- Using empirical data to think differently about 'pieces' of professional jigsaws
- Organisational relevance and context, and building a 'full' picture
- Receiving a referral: translation, meaning and the instability of 'pieces'
- Reaching an 'endpoint' and passing on an assumed 'full' picture
- Conclusion
- 7. Professional relationships with information
- Introduction
- The role of relationships in information sharing
- Inter-professional and inter-personal obligations in information sharing
- Features of trust in information relationships
- Positioning and connections with information
- Professional information needs, relevance and positioning
- Conclusion
- 8. Emotion information: working with hunches, concerns and uncertainty
- Introduction
- Emotions as action: working with 'iffy' feelings
- Emotion, translation and preserving relationships with families
- Emotion and sense making
- Emotion and 'anticipatories' of what 'might' happen
- Conclusion
- 9. Conclusion
- Building a 'full' picture and assumed 'endpoints'
- Embodied relationships and relationships with information
- Emotion information
- Concluding remarks
- Appendix 1
- Appendix 2. Multi-agency interview schedule used in phase two of data collection
- References
- Index.