Working together or pulling apart? : the National Health Service and child protection networks /
This book examines the contribution of the NHS to the multi-agency and inter-professional child protection process. It examines the roles played by health professionals within child protection and investigates the nature and operation of the central policy community and local provider networks. The...
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Bristol, UK :
Policy Press,
2001.
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Table of Contents:
- WORKING TOGETHER OR PULLING APART?; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Models and metaphors: the theoretical framework; 2. Policy communities and provider networks in child protection; 3. Knowledge and networks; 4. Accountability, agencies and professions; 5. Power and politics in the NHS; 6. Reluctant partners: the experience of health and social care collaboration; 7. A system within a system: the role of the Area Child Protection Committee; 8. Agents of change? The role of the designated and named health professionals; 9. Sleeping partners: GPs and child protection.
