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This work challenges and changes the focus of existing literature in this area. Instead of concerning itself with the ways in which the task of preventing and detecting child abuse, both physical and sexual, can be more effectively undertaken, this book presents a critical analysis of the task itself as it is currently conceived, in the light of the 1989 Children Act. Often after tragic deaths, there have been a number of public inquiries in which social workers have been severely criticised, as a result of which the social work profession itself has been stigmatized. The author argues that it is the simultaneous duty to prevent, and detect child abuse and also to rehabilitate children with abusing parents/caretakers which will at times produce situations where social workers are focused to a greater extent on any one of these statutory duties at the expense of the others. This leaves them vulnerable to the periodic charge that they are either intervening to too great or too little an extent.

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