A multi-professional approach to safeguarding children, which accompanies the Department of Health's new training courses.

• Focuses on the methods of identifying children at risk and details what happens at each stage of the social work process
• Presents a fully multi-disciplinary approach as to how professional groups and services should co-operate to safeguard children
• Part of the prestigious NSPCC Wiley Series in Safeguarding Children
• Accompanies the training courses run by the DoH and NSPCC for professionals working with children

Hedy Cleaver is Emeritus Professor at Royal Holloway, UK.

Pat Cawson is a freelance consultant, formerly Head of the Child Protection Research Unit at the NSPCC.

Sarah Gorin is a Senior Research Officer at the NSPCC.

Steve Walker is the Head of Child and Family Services for the City and County of Swansea.