Creating Safer Organisations
Practical Steps to Prevent the Abuse of Children by Those Working With Them
Wiley Child Protection & Policy Series
1. Edition April 2012
210 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Short Description
High profile child abuse cases of recent years have brought child safety forward in public consciousness. This book, written for managers and trustees of organizations working with children as well as criminal justice staff working with sex offenders, offers practical safety measures for children's organizations. The text draws on current research on sex offenders in organizational settings and uses case illustrations to explore institutional failures. Firmly committed to child safety through multi-agency collaboration, Creating Safer Organizations supports those who seek to ensure the safety of children under their care.
An accessible resource to help those in organisational settings ensure that they have taken all possible steps to safeguard the children and young people they are responsible for.
* Draws on up to date research with people who have committed sexual offences against children in organisational settings, and new developments in interviewing approaches
* Details recent cases to illustrate points about institutional failures in protecting children
* Highlights the fact that those who sexually offend against children are a diverse and heterogeneous population, and the approaches taken to protect children must address the range of possible risks
* Makes a firm commitment to the importance of multi-agency and inter-disciplinary collaboration and is relevant in both community and residential settings
* Offers clear and practical messages and measures for organisations to act on