Table of Contents

Introduction. Part One: The interagency context. What is interagency child protection work? How one system works. The structural blocks to interagency working. Part Two: Agencies and practitioners. The Social Services Department. The Health Service. The Education Service. The legal system and related practitioners. Voluntary organisations and new Childcare Partnerships. Part Three: Working together. Child protection work and the individual. Towards good practice

About the Author

Michael Murphy has been a social worker, trainer and counsellor in the interagency childcare arena for the last twenty five years. He set up and ran the first British interagency child protection resource. He is currently a senior lecturer at Salford University, teaching on the PQ childcare award and was part of the team that undertook the review of education and training on interagency work that followed the Laming Inquiry.