Values and Practice in Children's Services

✍ Scribed by Roger Smith

• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 228
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Values and their application are a continuing area of concern for those involved in work with children and families. This book provides a means of understanding models of social welfare and children's services, and relating these to the challenges of practice. Key debates about values in children's services are identified and examined, in their legislative, policy and practice contexts. The text develops a range of approaches to practice, utilizing case examples to illustrate the challenges, and to help practitioners with the task of reconciling competing expectations in their work with children.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Figures and Tables......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Introduction: Why do Values Matter?......Page 12
1 Values in Context......Page 23
2 Keeping it in the Family: ‘Laissez-faire’ and Minimal Intervention......Page 46
3 Child Protection and the Authoritative State......Page 67
4 Working in Partnership? The State and Family Support......Page 89
5 Rights and Empowerment in Children’s Services......Page 110
6 Of Discourses and Dilemmas......Page 133
7 Values and Anti-Discriminatory Practice......Page 159
8 A Framework for Action......Page 180
Conclusion: The Road Ahead......Page 200
Notes......Page 203
Bibliography......Page 205
B......Page 220
C......Page 221
D......Page 222
G......Page 223
K......Page 224
P......Page 225
S......Page 226
V......Page 227
Y......Page 228