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“The first text to systematically address the learning needs of post-qualifying child care social workers. Soundly organized and engagingly written with useful summaries and reflective exercises for students, it is a very fine text that will be widely used.”
– Nick Pike, University of Gloucestershire
This textbook provides an overview of the Post Qualifying Child Care Award in social work. Written in response to recent policy and training guidelines, it provides the underpinning knowledge for candidates following the Post Qualifying curriculum. It helps child care social workers acquire and develop the breadth of knowledge and understanding that characterise best practice.
Key Features
- Includes chapters on reflective collaborative and critical practice; child development; child observation; case management and managing risk; working in partnership with children and families; inter-professional working and practice education
- Offers links to the relevant post qualifying standards for social work
- Presents contributions from a team of practice assessors and program candidates
- Provides a practice-based approach — clearly links theory, research and practice
- Gives an inter-professional perspective
- Incorporates case studies, activities and points for reflection that encourage the reader to develop ways of challenging and improving their own practice
The book equips social workers with the relevant training, knowledge and skills to improve the quality of services and their delivery. With an emphasis upon continuing professional development, this text is suitable for social workers studying for the Child Care Award, those already in practice and other social care professionals working with children.
The Way Ahead: Reflective Practice and Relationships
The Way Ahead: Reflective Practice and Relationships
There is always a danger when concluding a piece of writing to try to neatly ‘wrap up’ and ‘sign off all that has gone before. Hence I have avoided using the word ‘conclusion’ in the title of the chapter, preferring to suggest that this book makes a partial contribution to the much bigger, ongoing process of professional development. Such ‘dangers’ are not confined to the academic/publishing world. As any childcare social worker knows, all too well, the completion of common assessment documentation, a court report or a foster carer assessment, for example, leaves a feeling that there is as much unwritten as written. People and human relationships defy being neatly packaged or ...
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