Protecting Powers: Emergency Intervention for Children's Protection

List of Tables and Figures. About the Authors. Acknowledgements. Preface. Chapter 1 Emergency powers for child protection. Chapter 2 The development of emergency powers. Chapter 3 The police, child protection and police protection. Chapter 4 Working together? The police, social services and police protection. Chapter 5 Children, families and applications for Emergency Protection Orders. Chapter 6 Local authority decisions to seek emergency protection. Chapter 7 The court process in emergency protection cases. Chapter 8 The EPO and afterwards. Chapter 9 Emergency intervention - reassessment and reform. Appendix Details of research methods. Case List. Bibliography. Index.