Children’s Charities in Crisis : : Early Intervention and the State / / Alison Body.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Body, Alison,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (270 p.) :; 5 Black and White

Following a decade of radical change in policy and funding in children’s early intervention services and with the role of the third sector under increased scrutiny, this timely book assesses the shifting interplay between state provision and voluntary organisations delivering intervention for children, young people and their families. Using 100 voices from the frontline, it provides vivid accounts of the lived experiences of charitable groups and offers crucial insights into the impact of recent social policy decisions on their work. Telling the story of how the landscape of children’s early intervention services has changed over the last decade, the author highlights important lessons for future policy while demonstrating the immeasurable value of voluntary organisations working in this challenging terrain.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- About the author -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Preventative services and children’s charities: policy and paradigm shifts -- New Labour, children’s services and the third sector -- Contemporary preventative services, coalitions and the Conservatives -- On the frontline of early intervention -- The policy and service delivery field of early intervention services -- State education: the relationships between schools and charity? -- The lived realities of commissioning children’s early intervention services -- Commissioning children’s services: challenges, contestation and crisis -- The changing role of children’s charities delivering early intervention services -- Partnership working, securing advantage and playing the game: thriving, not just surviving -- Concluding thoughts -- The action imperative to do things differently? -- Data and methods: voices from the frontline -- References -- Index