Bradford Publishing

Child Welfare Law and Practice is brought to you by the National Association of Counsel for Children (NACC), a nonprofit child advocacy and professional membership association dedicated to representation and protection of children in the legal system. With millions of reported cases of child maltreatment each year, this comprehensive guide provides the answers to those professionals who make child advocacy their priority.

Over the past several decades, a national model for child welfare practice has emerged. Here, a group of highly experienced NACC authors and other child welfare experts has captured and refined that model. Designed as a study guide for attorneys preparing to take the NACC child welfare law certification exam, this book also serves as a day-to-day practical guide for child advocates throughout the country, providing in-depth analysis and instruction on the multitude of issues involved in this important area of practice.

Completely revised edition! The second edition includes these new and expanded Topics:

• Indian Child Welfare Act
• Investigative interviewing of the child
• Counseling legal clients who are children 
• The practice of child welfare casework 
• Child safety
• Representing parents
• Federal due process
• Education goals for children in foster care
• The transition of youth from foster care to adulthood
• Plus many more! 

"Top specialists in our field of child welfare have, in one volume, produced an exhaustive compendium of information to help achieve not merely competence, but exemplary practice skills. Because of the rapid changes in and increasing complexity of dependency cases, this book should find its way onto every child welfare lawyer's bookshelf."

— Howard Davidson, Director, ABA Center on Children and the Law, Washington, D.C.