Practical Child Law for Social Workers

Clare Seymour is a registered social worker. Until 2009 she was Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Anglia Ruskin University where she taught social work law, communication and interviewing skills, and professional accountability to social work students at undergraduate and master′s level. Her practice experience includes 16 years of local authority children and families social work and 8 years of providing bereavement counselling and general social work support within a general practice. She is currently working with social work students as a practice educator, and as an external examiner.

Richard Seymour is a Senior Circuit judge assigned to the Queen′s Bench Division of the High Court of Justice. He was in practice as a barrister until 2000, was appointed QC in 1991, and has been a President of Mental Health Review Tribunals. He jointly edited Kemp & Kemp, the Quantum of Damages, 4th ed, 1975, and contributed the legal chapters to publications on practice and procedure for the quantity surveyor, and the architect in practice.

Clare and Richard Seymour are joint authors of Courtroom and Report Writing Skills for Social Workers also published by Learning Matters.