Introduction * PART ONE: IDENTIFYING NEGLECT: WHAT IT IS AND WHAT IT DOES TO CHILDREN * Defining Child Neglect: The Influence of Time and Place * Living with Child Neglect: The Impact on Children * PART TWO: ASSESSING THE CARE-GIVER AND THE CARE-GIVING CONTEXT * Carer's Behaviours: The Past Influencing the Present? * Parenting Issues and Child Neglect: What do we Know? * The Care-Giving Context * PART THREE: REFERRAL AND ASSESSMENT: PRACTICE REALITY * Identifying and Referring Cases of Child Neglect: The Theory and the Practice * The Assessment Task and Process: Factors that Promote and Inhibit a Child Focus * PART FOUR: MOVING PRACTICE FORWARD * The Assessment Challenges and Best Practice * Working with Child Neglect: Developing Practitioner and Organisational Capacity Introduction * PART ONE: IDENTIFYING NEGLECT: WHAT IT IS AND WHAT IT DOES TO CHILDREN * Defining Child Neglect: The Influence of Time and Place * Living with Child Neglect: The Impact on Children * PART TWO: ASSESSING THE CARE-GIVER AND THE CARE-GIVING CONTEXT * Carer's Behaviours: The Past Influencing the Present? * Parenting Issues and Child Neglect: What do we Know? * The Care-Giving Context * PART THREE: REFERRAL AND ASSESSMENT: PRACTICE REALITY * Identifying and Referring Cases of Child Neglect: The Theory and the Practice * The Assessment Task and Process: Factors that Promote and Inhibit a Child Focus * PART FOUR: MOVING PRACTICE FORWARD * The Assessment Challenges and Best Practice * Working with Child Neglect: Developing Practitioner and Organisational Capacity.