Eric Sainsbury worked as a probation officer, social worker and social work teacher. He was associated with the course recognition and review procedures of CCETSW and, since retirement from the University of Sheffield, with quality assessment of applied social work and social policy courses for HEFCE. He has served as Chair of the Social Work Committee of NCH Action for Children and as a Vice President of Family Service Units.

`… gives detailed accounts of what is often know as `direct work' with children allowing readers to see for themselves what this intensive work with abused children requires … we are privy to the content of sessions and the thoughts and judgements of the social workers as they unfold. Because of this the instructional value of these contemporaneous accounts is immense.'

• Foreword by Tom White (NCH - Action for Children). Introduction. 1. Direct work with young children in situations of neglect and injury. 2. The experience of sexual abuse. 3. Social work across racial, cultural and language differences. 4. Administrative, professional and inter-professional processes in child protection. 5. The stresses of social work in child protection. 6. Being and becoming an adult. 7. Postscript.

Eric Sainsbury worked as a probation officer, social worker and social work teacher. He was associated with the course recognition and review procedures of CCETSW and, since retirement from the University of Sheffield, with quality assessment of applied social work and social policy courses for HEFCE. He has served as Chair of the Social Work Committee of NCH Action for Children and as a Vice President of Family Service Units.

`… gives detailed accounts of what is often know as `direct work' with children allowing readers to see for themselves what this intensive work with abused children requires … we are privy to the content of sessions and the thoughts and judgements of the social workers as they unfold. Because of this the instructional value of these contemporaneous accounts is immense.'

• Foreword by Tom White (NCH - Action for Children). Introduction. 1. Direct work with young children in situations of neglect and injury. 2. The experience of sexual abuse. 3. Social work across racial, cultural and language differences. 4. Administrative, professional and inter-professional processes in child protection. 5. The stresses of social work in child protection. 6. Being and becoming an adult. 7. Postscript.

Eric Sainsbury worked as a probation officer, social worker and social work teacher. He was associated with the course recognition and review procedures of CCETSW and, since retirement from the University of Sheffield, with quality assessment of applied social work and social policy courses for HEFCE. He has served as Chair of the Social Work Committee of NCH Action for Children and as a Vice President of Family Service Units.

`… gives detailed accounts of what is often know as `direct work' with children allowing readers to see for themselves what this intensive work with abused children requires … we are privy to the content of sessions and the thoughts and judgements of the social workers as they unfold. Because of this the instructional value of these contemporaneous accounts is immense.'

• Foreword by Tom White (NCH - Action for Children). Introduction. 1. Direct work with young children in situations of neglect and injury. 2. The experience of sexual abuse. 3. Social work across racial, cultural and language differences. 4. Administrative, professional and inter-professional processes in child protection. 5. The stresses of social work in child protection. 6. Being and becoming an adult. 7. Postscript.