Child welfare and social policy: An essential reader

✍ Scribed by Harry Hendrick (editor)

Publisher: Policy Press
Year: 2005
Tongue: English
Leaves: 573
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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

Child welfare and social policy
Contents
Sources of extracts
Acknowledgements
List of contributors
Introduction
Part 1: Child welfare: the historical background
1. Moral campaigns for children’s welfare in the nineteenth century
2. Children and social policies
Part 2: Identifying and exploring concepts and approaches
3. Good intentions into social action
4. Children – who do we think they are?
5. The challenge of child poverty: developing a child-centred approach
6. Children’s welfare and children’s rights
7. Risk, advanced liberalism and child welfare: the need to rediscover uncertainty and ambiguity
8. Conceptualising social capital in relation to the well-being of children and young people: a critical review
9. Children, parents and the state
10. Race, culture and the child
11. Liberalism or distributional justice? The morality of child welfare laws
Part 3: Policies, trends, contexts andramifications
12. The 1989 Children Act and children’s rights: a critical reassessment
13. Assumptions about children’s best interests: the risks in making assumptions about harm to children
14. Taking liberties: policy and the punitive turn
15. Tightening the net: children, community and control
16. ‘Mad’, ‘bad’ or misunderstood?
17. Children and health
18. Reconstructing disability, childhood and social policy in the UK
19. Children of the welfare state: Individuals with entitlements or hidden in the family?
20. Fair but unequal? Children, ethnicity and the welfare state
21. Housing policy and children
22. Young carers and public policy
23. Education and the economy
24. Daycare: dreams and nightmares
Part 4: Children, social policy and the future
25. Investing in the citizen-workers of the future: transformations in citizenship and the state under New Labour
26. Children’s participation: control and self-realisation in British late modernity
Conclusion
References
Index
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