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-Chahal 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...

Practising Welfare Rights aims to improve awareness among people working in social work and advice agencies about the skills required for effective welfare rights work, and offers guidance for managers and other professionals about how to develop a welfare rights service.

Written by a well-known author, trainer and adviser on welfare rights issues, this book includes:

• learning objectives
• activities to test understanding
• illustrative case studies.

It also covers core welfare rights skills, such as interviewing, legal research, negotiation and...