Parental Learning Disability and Children's Needs explores how to effectively assess children in families where one or more parent has a learning disability. These children often have unmet needs because their parents are more likely to be coping with mental and physical illness, domestic violence or substance abuse. The book examines current social care practice in this area, whether it is working, and the impact it has on families. The authors describe how, although some parents with a learning disability face a significant risk of losing their children, most continue to look after them...

The Integrated Children's System (ICS) was developed to support effective practice with children and families and improve decision making and planning for children in need. This book outlines what the ICS is and how it works, and assesses the effectiveness of a number of pilot studies, offering guidance for others using and implementing the system, which is being rolled out nationally. Part of the Government's long term programme to improve outcomes and life chances for children, the system provides a more structured and systematic approach by integrating the processes of working with...

A multi-professional approach to safeguarding children, which accompanies the Department of Health's new training courses.

• Focuses on the methods of identifying children at risk and details what happens at each stage of the social work process
• Presents a fully multi-disciplinary approach as to how professional groups and services should co-operate to safeguard children
• Part of the prestigious NSPCC Wiley Series in Safeguarding Children
• Accompanies the training courses run by the DoH and NSPCC for professionals working with children