Description
Protecting Powers
Emergency Intervention for Children's Protection
Wiley Child Protection & Policy Series
Author: Masson Judith
Language: EnglishKeywords
detention; protection; place; practice; alongestablished; children; child; child protection practice; europe; protection systems; north; australia; recognised; remains; family; impact; controversial; use; rights; england; notice; little
Publication date: 05-2007
264 p. · 15.5x23 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 09-2007
260 p. · 16.8x24.4 cm · Hardback
Description
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The book provides a critical account of current practice in emergency child protection, it identifies good practice and make proposals for reform.
About the Authors.
Acknowledgements.
Preface.
Chapter 1 Emergency powers for child protection.
Chapter 2 The development of emergency powers.
Chapter 3 The police, child protection and police protection.
Chapter 4 Working together? The police, social services and police protection.
Chapter 5 Children, families and applications for Emergency Protection Orders.
Chapter 6 Local authority decisions to seek emergency protection.
Chapter 7 The court process in emergency protection cases.
Chapter 8 The EPO and afterwards.
Chapter 9 Emergency intervention – reassessment and reform.
Appendix Details of research methods.
Case List.
Bibliography.
Index.
Judith Masson is Professor of Law at the University of Warwick, UK. She is an Academic Member of the Judicial Studies Board Family Law Committee and has acted as a specialist advisor on childcare issues for the UK government. She is the author of several books including Out of Hearing, which was published by Wiley in 1999.