Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents iii
3. List of figures, tables and boxes v
4. Acknowledgements vi
5. Foreword viii
6. Introduction
7. Making sense of schools’ engagement in multi-agency working in the changed educational landscape 3
8. The national picture
9. A historical perspective: the evolving role of schools in child protection and safeguarding 19
10. Contemporary challenges: views from local authorities and ‘the field’ 38
11. Schools’ perspectives
12. How schools are responding to safeguarding and the challenges they face 61
13. Meeting the threshold: referral to children’s social care services 82
14. Beneath the threshold: ‘early help’ and schools’ support for children and families 100
15. Concluding thoughts
16. Schools and safeguarding: aligning expectations with reality 119
17. Postscript 128
18. Congruence analysis of the national surveys of education, children’s social care and Local Safeguarding Children Boards 136
19. The case study schools 141
20. Qualitative Comparative Analysis of the case study interview data 144
21. Working environment in schools 147
22. Timeline of schools and children’s welfare since 1870 149
23. Notes 152
24. References 153
25. Index 168