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Approaches to needs assessment in children's services / edited by Harriet Ward and Wendy Ross.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Child care--Great Britain--Evaluation.
- Child care.
- Children--Services for.
- Children.
- Physical Description:
- 352 p.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Jessica Kingsley, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Approaches to Needs Assessment in Children's Services
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- Part I: Assessing the Needs of Populations of Children
- 2. Towards Social Inclusion: Can Childhood Disadvantages be Overcome?
- 3. A Framework For Conceptualising Need and its Application to Planning and Providing Services
- 4. Needs-Led or Needs Must? The Use of Needs-Based Information in Planning Children's Services
- 5. Matching Needs and Services: Emerging Themes from its Application in Different Social Care Settings
- 6. Developing a Taxonomy for Children in Need
- 7. Evolution not Revolution: Family Support Services and the Children Act 1989
- Part II: Assessing the Needs of Individual Children
- 8. National Policy on the Assessment of Children in Need and their Families
- 9. Underpinning Theories for the Assessment of Children's Needs
- 10. An Inter-Agency Approach to Needs Assessment
- 11. Addressing Family Needs when a Parent is Mentally Ill
- 12. Assessing Children's Needs and Parents' Responses
- 13. Assessing Emotional and Behavioural Development in Children Looked After Away from Home
- 14. Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Issues for Policy and Practice
- References
- Contributors
- Subject Index
- Author Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781846422744
- 1846422744
- 9781417501731
- 1417501731
- OCLC:
- 54829640
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