Janet Seden Editor & Author

Janet Seden is a Lecturer in the School of Health and Social Welfare at The Open University where she chairs the course Managing Care and was part of a team which produced Communication and Relationships in Health and Social Care. She has worked as probation officer, children and families field social worker, social worker /manager in a family centre, counsellor and counsellor/trainer and supervisor. She has also published on managing care, the assessment of and provision of services for children and their families, social work processes, children and spirituality and practice teaching. Recent publications include; Family Assistance Orders and The Children Act 1989 in the International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family (2001) Underpinning Theories for The Assessment of Children in Need and their Families in Approaches to Needs Assessment in Children's Services (2002). She authored a literature review for Studies informing the development of the Assessment Framework for Children in Need and their Families (Department of Health 2001). Most recently she has contributed book chapters to The Developing World of the Child (Department of Health, The Open University, NSPCC and Royal Holloway College, 2004, forthcoming).