 | Approaches to Needs Assessment in Children's Services Examining the assessment of need in children's services this book addresses the full spectrum of practice, policy and research developments in the field. The contributors include leading academics, policy makers and senior practitioners who generate a broad-based holistic approach to the assessment of children in need. They show how needs assessment in children's services can be used to tackle problems such as low achievement, mental ill-health and social exclusion at both individual and strategic levels. Harriet Ward is Director of the Centre for Child and Family Research and Senior Research Fellow at Loughborough University. She has undertaken extensive research in the field of assessing need and evaluating outcomes in children's services. Wendy Rose is Senior Fellow at the Open University. She is a policy maker who has taken a leading role in the development of children's services at a national level. Until recently she was assistant chief inspector for children's services at the Department of Health. |
