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Social workers, children, and the law

Social workers experience at first hand the fundamental tensions which exist in child care law between the need to protect the interests of the child and the right of the family unit to live in dignity without interference from government agencies.

In this thought-provoking study Clive Grace argues that the operation of child care law cannot be properly understood without consideration of the ways social workers use law in their day-to-day dealings with children and their families.

This book highlights and explores the disjunctures which arise between the social work and the legal reasoning applied to child protection cases, disjunctures which have profound implications for the operation of child care law, and for the human rights of the children and families involved.

Based on extensive empirical research involving over 180 individual case studies this book examines how social workers are hampered by a lack of policy direction at departmental level, and concludes with a number of constructive suggestions for remedying this deficiency.

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Language
English
Pages
241

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Social workers, children, and the law
1994, Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-235) and index.

Published in
Oxford, New York
Series
Oxford socio-legal studies

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
344.73/0327, 347.304327
Library of Congress
KF3735 .G72 1994, KF3735.G72 1994

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 241 p. ;
Number of pages
241

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1082329M
Internet Archive
socialworkerschi0000grac
ISBN 10
019825279X
LCCN
94005917
OCLC/WorldCat
29877788
Goodreads
4872553

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