Neglected Children : Issues and Dilemmas Book

Foreword: Penny Thompson Director of Social Services, Sheffield.

Preface.

Acknowledgements.

What’s the Problem?.

Approaches to Understanding.

Poverty.

Neglectful Families: The Wider Context.

The Parents.

The Children.

Agencies and Professionals Working Together on Cases of Neglect.

So What is to be Done? Moving forward on assessment.

So What is to be Done? Intervention.

Postscript.

Appendixes:.

I About Parent-Child Interactions.

II About the Quality of Care.

III About Attachment.

IV About Neglect.

V About Negative Parental Feelings.

VI About Predicting Quality of Care in Parents with Learning Difficulties (LD).

VII Making Links between Theory and Practice (Nottinghamshire Social Services Department.

VIII Leverhulme Workshop on Neglect.

IX Looking After Children: Research into Practice.

References.

Index.