Child welfare and social policy : : An essential reader / / ed. by Harry Hendrick.

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• MitwirkendeR: Becker, Saul,; Bibby, Andrew,; Carney, Terry,; Coppock, Vicki,; Corker, Mairian,; Daniel, Paul,; Davis, John,; Goldson, Barry,; Hendrick, Harry,; Hill, Malcolm,; Ivatts, John,; James, Adrian,; James, Allison,; King, Michael,; Lansdown, Gerison,; Leach, Penelope,; Lister, Ruth,; Morrow, Virginia,; Moss, Peter,; Owusu-Bempah, Kwame,; Parton, Nigel,; Petrie, Pat,; Piper, Christine,; Platt, Lucinda,; Prout, Alan,; Ridge, Tess,; Roche, Jeremy,; Shakespeare, Tom,; Skevik, Anne,; Thomas, Nigel,; Tisdall, Kay,; Tomlinson, Sally,; Watson, Nick,
• HerausgeberIn: Hendrick, Harry,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2005]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (576 p.)

This book provides an essential one-stop introduction to the key concepts, issues, policies and practices affecting child welfare, with particular emphasis on the changing nature of the relationship between child welfare and social policy. No other book brings together such a wide selection of material to form an attractive and indispensable teaching and learning resource. Child welfare and social policy provides readers with an historical overview of child welfare in England and Wales; high quality contributions from leading authorities in the field; discursive introductions to each section that set individual chapters in the broader context of childhood studies and case study material to bring discussions to life. Key topics covered include morality and child welfare; relations between law, medicine, social work, social theory and child welfare; children's rights and democratic citizenship and children as raw material for 'social investment'. Child welfare and social policy is invaluable reading for students and academics in social policy, sociology, education and social work. It is also a useful resource for health and social work professionals wishing to follow current debates in theory and practice.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- Sources of extracts -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- Child welfare: the historical background -- Moral campaigns for children’s welfare in the nineteenth century -- Children and social policies -- Identifying and exploring concepts and approaches -- Good intentions into social action -- Children – who do we think they are? -- The challenge of child poverty: developing a child-centred approach -- Children’s welfare and children’s rights -- Risk, advanced liberalism and child welfare: the need to rediscover uncertainty and ambiguity -- Conceptualising social capital in relation to the well-being of children and young people: a critical review -- Children, parents and the state -- Race, culture and the child -- Liberalism or distributional justice? The morality of child welfare laws -- Policies, trends, contexts and ramifications -- The 1989 Children Act and children’s rights: a critical reassessment -- Assumptions about children’s best interests: the risks in making assumptions about harm to children -- Taking liberties: policy and the punitive turn -- Tightening the net: children, community and control -- ‘Mad’, ‘bad’ or misunderstood? -- Children and health -- Reconstructing disability, childhood and social policy in the UK -- Children of the welfare state: Individuals with entitlements or hidden in the family? -- Fair but unequal? Children, ethnicity and the welfare state -- Housing policy and children -- Young carers and public policy -- Education and the economy -- Daycare: dreams and nightmares -- Children, social policy and the future -- Investing in the citizen-workers of the future: transformations in citizenship and the state under New Labour -- Children’s participation: control and self-realisation in British late modernity -- Conclusion -- References -- Index