Supporting Families: Child Protection in the Community

How successful have government initiatives been in preventing child harm and family breakdown?
Supporting Families presents the findings of a large–scale two–year NSPCC evaluation study with families in difficulty, to explore the content and effectiveness of family support services. This updated paperback edition, with a foreword by Lord Laming, includes additional findings from the current phase of the evaluation.
Looking at support services from all stakeholder perspectives – children, parents, staff – Ruth Gardner asks to what extent specific problems such as parental stress, vulnerability, isolation and child behaviour were resolved over six months of interventions including group work, parent training and volunteer home visiting.
Using the voices of all the stakeholders, Supporting Families reviews the national policy for family support since the inception of social services departments and, through best practice and policy recommendations, points the way forward to more inclusive provision.
Bringing together NSPCC research with key practice–based solutions, Supporting Families is required reading for everyone working to prevent child harm. This timely publication will help set the policy agenda in children’s services.
"Ruth Gardner’s book strikes just the right notes to encourage us to respond to the challenge of change. I congratulate her."
—Lord Laming

Spis treści:
Foreword by Jane Tunstill.
Foreword by Lord Laming.
Acknowledgements.
Report of the Committee on Local Authority & Allied Personal Social Services 1968.
Paul Boateng, Minister of Health, 1997.
1. Introduction and Summary of Findings.
2. About the Families.
3. Components of Parental Stress.
4. Children and Family Support.
5. Typologies of Family Difficulties.
6. Support Networks in the Community.
7. Overview of Family Support Provided by the N SPCC.
8. Examples of Family Support Practice.
9. Children in Need and Local Services.
10. Family Support Now.
References.
Reading List.
Appendix (Methodology).
Index.

Nota biograficzna:
Ruth Gardner is a Senior Research Fellow at the Royal Holloway College, University of London.

Okładka tylna:
How successful have government initiatives been in preventing child harm and family breakdown?
Supporting Families presents the findings of a large–scale two–year NSPCC evaluation study with families in difficulty, to explore the content and effectiveness of family support services. This updated paperback edition, with a foreword by Lord Laming, includes additional findings from the current phase of the evaluation.
Looking at support services from all stakeholder perspectives – children, parents, staff – Ruth Gardner asks to what extent specific problems such as parental stress, vulnerability, isolation and child behaviour were resolved over six months of interventions including group work, parent training and volunteer home visiting.
Using the voices of all the stakeholders, Supporting Families reviews the national policy for family support since the inception of social services departments and, through best practice and policy recommendations, points the way forward to more inclusive provision.
Bringing together NSPCC research with key practice–based solutions, Supporting Families is required reading for everyone working to prevent child harm. This timely publication will help set the policy agenda in children’s services.
"Ruth Gardner’s book strikes just the right notes to encourage us to respond to the challenge of change. I congratulate her."
—Lord Laming