Approaches to Needs Assessment in Children's Services

by Harriet Ward, Jo Tunnard, Ruth Sinclair, Janet Seden, Wendy Rose, Jenny Gray, Pauline Hardiker, David Quinton, Robert Page, Mike Pinnock

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Description Examining the assessment of need in children's services this book addresses the full spectrum of practice, policy and research developments in the field. The contributors show how needs assessment in children's services can be used to tackle problems such as low achievement, and social exclusion at both individual and strategic levels.

Publisher Description

Examining the assessment of need in children's services this book addresses the full spectrum of practice, policy and research developments in the field. The contributors include leading academics, policy makers and senior practitioners who generate a broad-based holistic approach to the assessment of children in need. They show how needs assessment in children's services can be used to tackle problems such as low achievement, mental ill-health and social exclusion. Approaches to the Assessment of Need in Children's Services will enable service managers and practitioners to respond effectively to the increasing pressure to monitor outcomes and effectiveness in child care work, and to improve and coordinate children's welfare service provision at individual and community levels and provides an indispensable overview and analysis for anyone working or studying in child welfare and social care.

Author Biography

Wendy Rose is Senior Fellow at the School of Social Work at the University of Leicester. She is a policy maker who has taken a leading role in the development of children's services at a national level. Until recently she was assistant chief inspector for children's services at the Department of Health. Harriet Ward is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy and Social Work at the University of Leicester. She has undertaken extensive research in the field of assessment in children's services.

Details

  • ISBN 1853027804
  • ISBN-13 9781853027802
  • Title Approaches to Needs Assessment in Children's Services
  • Author Harriet Ward, Jo Tunnard, Ruth Sinclair, Janet Seden, Wendy Rose, Jenny Gray, Pauline Hardiker, David Quinton, Robert Page, Mike Pinnock
  • Format Paperback
  • Year 2001
  • Pages 352
  • Edition 1st
  • Publisher Jessica Kingsley Publishers
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