Risk-taking adolescents and child protection: Strategic Briefing (2014)
This briefing is intended to support strategic managers, frontline teams and practitioners.
It begins by looking at the concept of ‘risk-taking’ and goes on to outline some recent research on developmental aspects of adolescence.
Practice points and emerging practice examples are highlighted for service development and frontline practice, and links provided for relevant papers and other sources of information and support.
Professional Standards
PQS:KSS - Creating a context for excellent practice | Support effective decision-making | Developing excellent practitioners | Effective use of power and authority | Confident analysis and decision-making | Relationships and effective direct work | Child development | Child and family assessment | Analysis, decision-making, planning and review | The law and the family and youth justice systems
PCF - Values and ethics | Knowledge | Intervention and skills | Contexts and organisations | Professional leadership
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