Safeguarding children and young people : a guide for nurses and midwives./

Powell, Catherine.

Safeguarding children and young people : a guide for nurses and midwives./ Catherine Powell. - Maidenhead : McGraw Hill/ Open University Press, 2007. - xvi, 203 p. : 24 cm.

Includes bibliography (p.184-193) and index.

Outlines and explores professional roles and responsibilities in the context of inter-agency working. This book contains chapters on child neglect; fabricated or induced illness; child death and child maltreatment; and, safeguarding vulnerable children. It also provides an analysis of children's rights and child protection.

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Child welfare.
Child abuse--Prevention.

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