This chapter will help you to understand: the difference between safeguarding and child protection; how safeguarding and/or child protection are always socially constructed; how we can distinguish between a child in need and a child being harmed. 11.1 How culture and values define a child in need and a child being harmed So far, arguments have been put forward which indicate that it is important for children and young people to have resilience so that they may cope with adversities in the future. It has also been suggested that a growing
287 Critical and Radical Social Work • vol 5 • no 3 • 287–300 • © Policy Press 2017 • #CRSW Print ISSN 2049 8608 • Online ISSN 2049 8675 • https://doi.org/10.1332/204986017X15029697482460 Submission accepted 08 August 2017 • First published online 12 September 2017 article ‘Downpressor man’: securitisation, safeguarding and social work David McKendrick, david.mckendrick@gcu.ac.uk Glasgow Caledonian University, UK Jo Finch, j.finch@uel.ac.uk University of East London, UK The Counter Terrorism and Security Act came into force in July 2015 in the UK. This
Drawing on the latest research, theory and practice, this is the first book to provide social workers with an evidence-based, practical guide to safeguarding children and young people from abuse, in a world of sexting, selfies and snap chat.
It presents an overview of the key e-safety and online risks to children and young people, including dark play, digital self-harm, and online grooming, sexualisation, bullying, offending and radicalisation. It also examines online boundaries, relationships and identity and the future of technologies.
Case study examples and discussion of key principles will help social workers consider, mitigate and manage online risks and their effects for safeguarding children and young people, and their families and carers.
This much-needed volume fills an overlooked gap in adult safeguarding – the digital arena – in providing a comprehensive overview of policy and practice in supporting vulnerable adults online.
Providing an essential analysis illustrated by recent court rulings and case studies, the authors advocate for the effective support of adults with learning disabilities and/or mental capacity issues in their digital lives without compromising their privacy and participation rights.
The text balances a theoretical exploration of the tensions between participation and protection, legislation, human rights, professional biases and social wrongs. It encourages a critical approach in adopting both a practical and realistic understanding for policy makers, professionals and students in social work, law and adult social care.
This is an essential, practical guide to best practice in adult safeguarding which supports students and practitioners to develop the skills, knowledge and ethical awareness to confidently address the challenges of adult safeguarding across a wide range of practice contexts in the UK.
The authors explore the current context of adult safeguarding in the UK, together with the legislation, rights and principles that are the basis of best practice, and with a focus on developments in practice following the implementation of the Care Act (2014).
Practitioners are supported to develop their practice by exploring new research and innovative ways of working within the field, while promoting the importance of learning from experience and building resilience in adult safeguarding work. This book includes:
• helpful case studies and examples of professional decision making from experienced adult safeguarding practitioners;
• top tips and models to enable confident application of knowledge to practice;
• tools for reflection to extend the practitioner’s development.
The mistreatment of older people is increasingly recognised internationally as a significant abuse of elders’ human rights. ‘Scandals’ and inquiries into the failure to protect older people from abuse in health and social care systems rarely address, and still less challenge, the social, economic and cultural context to the abuse of older people.
This critical and challenging book makes a strong case for the development of ethically-driven, research-informed policy and practice to safeguard older people from abuse. Drawing on findings of original UK research and framed in an international context, it illustrates ways in which ageism, under-resourced services to older people, target-driven health and social care policy and services, and organisational cultures of blame and scapegoating, are a powerful yet invisible backcloth to elder abuse.
Safeguarding older people from abuse will be essential reading for policy makers, politicians, professionals, campaigners, researchers and educators, and those working in criminal justice fields.
43 Critical social work in child protection/ safeguarding: challenges and (fewer) opportunities Steve Rogowski,1 UK drbigpike@talktalk.net Social work in the UK is under ever more pressure to do the bidding of the government of the day, whether this is under New Labour with its targets and checklists, or the current Conservative- led coalition government’s authoritarian response to put ‘troublesome’ families on the straight and narrow by getting them back into work. Managerialism, and resulting bureaucracy and proceduralism, ever more dominates as managers
How do we respond to harm faced by young people beyond their front doors? Can practitioners keep young people safe at school, in their neighbourhoods or with their friends when social care systems are designed to work with families?
The Contextual Safeguarding approach has transformed how policy makers, social care leaders, practitioners and researchers understand harm that happens to young people in their communities and what is required to respond. Since 2015 it has been tested across the UK and internationally. This book shares stories from child sexual exploitation, child criminal exploitation and peer violence about what has been learnt on this journey.
For anyone interested in how we safeguard young people beyond their front doors, this book shows how much we have achieved and raises big questions about what more we need to do to ensure young people are safe – whatever the context.
-based organisations maintain that they are committed to, and actively engaging in, practices that are designed to protect and safeguard sex workers. Specifically, it centres on the ways in which state-based rhetorics of ‘safeguarding’ and ‘vulnerability’ distort the role and function of a range of institutional practices and interventions across the UK. Rather than serving to disrupt the oppressive systems that lead the majority of individuals to sex work, it is argued they instead ensure the continued exposure of sex workers to dangerous and precarious working conditions
Schools play a vital role in safeguarding children and young people, yet there has been little research into how schools identify and respond to child protection concerns, and their engagement with local authority children’s services.
This book highlights the findings of a major ESRC-funded study on the child protection role played by schools, their decision-making processes and involvement in inter-agency working. Crucial reading for academics, practitioners and managers in children’s social care and education, it evaluates the impact of recent policy developments, including the Academies and Free Schools programme, as well as the restructuring of local authority children’s services.
