Scandal, social policy and social welfare / / Ian Butler, Mark Drakeford.
Scandals do not just happen. They are made. They are constructed out of such everyday tragedies as the small carelessnesses and institutional brutality of the long stay hospital, the abuse of children or the violent deaths of innocent bystanders. This book, by examining the landmark scandals of the...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2005] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | BASW/Policy Press titles
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on the authors
- Scandal
- ‘Gothic nightmare’: Madness and public policy from the 18th century
- ‘The corruption of care’: The Ely Hospital Inquiry 1969
- ‘Household happiness, gracious children’: Children, welfare and public policy, 1840-1970
- The story of Cinderella: The Report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Care and Supervision Provided in Relation to Maria Colwell 1974
- ‘Mere oblivion’: The fate of the institution and the advent of community care
- ‘Carnage in the community’: The Christopher Clunis Inquiry 1993
- ‘An ambience of uneasiness’: The residential care of children, 1834-1990
- ‘A narrow, punitive and harshly restrictive experience’: The Pindown experience and the protection of children: The Report of the Staffordshire Child Care Inquiry 1991
- Scandal, welfare and public policy
- The final chapter?
- Bibliography
- Index