Edition |
2nd ed. |
Description |
1 online resource (320 pages) |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Summary |
This is the only book social workers need to make sense of the key elements of children's and family law. Now in a fully updated second edition, it reflects recent changes including the Working Together to Safeguard Children guidelines for inter-agency working, Children and Families Act 2013 and the Crime and Courts Act 2013. |
Contents |
Introduction -- Fundamentals -- Human rights -- Key points in children and families law -- Parents, parental responsibility and children's autonomy -- Private law -- Section 8 orders, specific issues and prohibited steps -- Arrangements for children (residence) and special guardianship orders -- Arrangements for children (contact) -- The local authority's support role -- Children in need -- Accommodation -- Child protection -- Child protection investigations -- Emergency action -- Care proceedings -- Threshold criteria -- Care proceedings : interim stages -- Care proceedings : care orders and care plans and contact -- Care plans -- Adoption fundamentals and adoption by consent -- Placement orders, contested adoptions and contact -- Appendices -- 1a. children act : key sections by number -- 1b. children act : key sections by subject -- Residence, special guardianship and adoption at a glance -- Contact aide : memoire -- Care and accommodation at a glance -- Summary of duties to looked after children -- Emergency protection order aide memoire -- Care and supervision orders at a glance. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Children -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- England.
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Children -- Legal status, laws, etc. |
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England. |
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Parent and child (Law) -- England.
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Parent and child (Law) |
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Social workers -- England -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Social workers. |
Genre/Form |
Handbooks and manuals.
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Electronic books.
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Subject |
Children. |
Genre/Form |
Handbooks and manuals.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Davis, Lynn. Social Worker's Guide to Children and Families Law. 2nd ed. London : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2014 9781849054409 |
ISBN |
9780857008145 (electronic book) |
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0857008145 (electronic book) |
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