JAN HORWATH is Professor of Child Welfare, University of Sheffield, UK.

Introduction - PART ONE: IDENTIFYING NEGLECT: WHAT IT IS AND WHAT IT DOES TO CHILDREN - Defining Child Neglect: The Influence of Time and Place - Living with Child Neglect: The Impact on Children - PART TWO: ASSESSING THE CARE-GIVER AND THE CARE-GIVING CONTEXT - Carer's Behaviours: The Past Influencing the Present? - Parenting Issues and Child Neglect: What do we Know? - The Care-Giving Context - PART THREE: REFERRAL AND ASSESSMENT: PRACTICE REALITY - Identifying and Referring Cases of Child Neglect: The Theory and the Practice - The Assessment Task and Process: Factors that Promote and Inhibit a Child Focus - PART FOUR: MOVING PRACTICE FORWARD - The Assessment Challenges and Best Practice - Working with Child Neglect: Developing Practitioner and Organisational Capacity