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Focusing on online facilitated online sexual abuse, this book takes a rigorous approach to existing literature to address some of the most pressing public and policy questions on this type of abuse. It examines which children are most vulnerable, how their vulnerability is made, what they are vulnerable to and how we can foster resilience.

In the context of debates about social work's knowledge base and its essential role this article focuses on how core social work activity might be identified and offers some preliminary suggestions as to what may constitute it. Drawing on a naturally occurring conversation between a social worker and two service users two claims are made. First, that despite concerns with uncertainty in late modernity, some features of interaction remain inherently certain. These include (1) Materiality, the setting and its participants are taken as real; (2) Identity, participants engage on the basis that they are who they say they are; (3) Taken for granted aspects of social organization; for example, that all participants can hold a conversation until shown otherwise; and, (4) Historicity, referring to a preexisting set of accounts, justifications, reasons and communicative orderings. Second, these 'background expectancies' provide the resource for topic seeking and non-routine practices that may be necessary to social work such as 'authorized breaching' of the domestic sphere and private life.

The past 11 years (1995-2006) have seen several major government initiatives in child welfare programmes culminating in the Children Act 2004 which places a duty on Children's Services and their relevant partners to 'cooperate to improve the well-being' of children. One of the most important vehicles of delivery is the establishment of a common assessment framework (CAF) (DfES, 2003) as a key recommendation of the Green Paper Every Child Matters (2003). It is believed that the implementation of the Framework will lead to a significant re-shaping of intervention practices and to a measurable improvement in the lives of children and families facing adversity of different kinds.The research presented in this article aims to address a fundamental problem which stands in the way of this initiative designed to standardize approaches to the assessment of need. The problem concerns the identification and categorization of matters which are currently being referred by different agents and agencies to children's services social care 'front-doors' as child protection matters. In the context of the findings of the first evaluation of the CAF and Lead Professional Guidance (DfEs, 2006) and the issues it raised over how 'thresholds' for services are being defined between partner agencies, the findings of research from the study being reported on this paper have implications for the reform of children's services in the UK and in other places where polices to improve the well being of children and young people are paramount.

AbstractInternational studies find that between a quarter and a third of offenders may be defined as problem gamblers. No comparable studies have been conducted in the UK during the last decade, which has seen unprecedented changes in gambling legislation and opportunities. The present study in two English prisons (one male and one female) found that levels of problem gambling were in line with global estimates. 27.8% of men and 18.1% of women were rated as medium‐risk and problem gamblers. Gambling problems were linked to current and previous offending for between 7% and 13% of all offenders.

Epdf available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. This book offers a comprehensive guide to the international policies developed to stop rape, together with case studies on their effectiveness in practice. Engaging with the legal and criminal justice systems, health services, specialised services for victim-survivors, educational and cultural outreach, and more, it brings together both theory and real-world evidence to build a thorough picture of worldwide efforts to fight rape in all its contexts.