Chapter 1 Child protection and family support -- Nigel Parton / Current debates and future prospects -- chapter 2 The re-focusing of children's services -- Michael Little / The contribution of research -- chapter Implementing the family support clauses of the 1989 Children Act -- Jane Tunstill / Legislative, professional and organisational obstacles -- chapter 4 Policing minority child-rearing practices in Australia -- David Thorpe / The consistency of 'child abuse' -- chapter 5 Relating outcomes to objectives in child protection policy / Jane Gibbons -- chapter 6 Introducing non-punitive approaches into child protection -- Legal issues / Judith Masson -- chapter 7 Can filtering processes be rationalised? / Corinne Wattam -- chapter 8 Children abused within the care system -- Christina M. Lyon / Do current representation procedures offer the child protection and the family support? -- chapter 9 Protection and child welfare -- Elaine Farmer / Striking the balance -- chapter 10 Need, risk and significant harm / June Thoburn -- chapter 11 Delivering family support -- Nick Frost / Issues and themes in service development -- chapter 12 Partnership with service users in child protection and family support / Bill Jordan -- chapter 13 Putting child and family support and protection into practice / Barbara Hearn.