The Future of Children's Care

Critical Perspectives on Children's Services Reform
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-4473-6826-7
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 236 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 281 g

Over the last decade there has been a series of Government policy initiatives in respect of children’s services and social work education in England, many of which aim to de-regulate or privatise aspects of these services. Critically considering the impact of the MacAlister Review, this book explores the past, present and future of children’s services in the UK from a range of perspectives – lived, professional and academic.

This accessible guide provides a timely and incisive overview of the current children’s services reform agenda in the UK. It identifies current challenges, analyses both strengths and weaknesses in the current policy agenda and sets out alternative policy and practice directions for a system that can meet families’ needs.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sen, Robin

Kerr, Christian

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bowser, Avery

Drayak, Taliah

Featherstone, Brid

Gupta, Anna

Drew, Isobel

Hanley, Joe

Pierre, Rebekah

Radoux, John

Shuttleworth, Paul

Thoburn, June

Willow, Carolyne

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Dienste, Soziale Organisationen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Kinder- und Jugendsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword – June Thoburn

1. Introduction: Critical Perspectives on Children’s Services Reform – Christian Kerr and Robin Sen

2. Where Now? Children’s Rights in England Into the 2020s – Carolyne Willow

3. More of Memes than Schemes: Networked Propagation in Children’s Social Care – Joe Hanley

4. Reclaiming Social Work, the Social Work Complex and Issues of Bias in Children’s Services – Robin Sen and Christian Kerr

5. Humane Social Work Practice: A More Parent Friendly System? Hopes and Challenges in the 2020s – Taliah Drayak

6. Exploring and Re-Imagining Children’s Services in England Through a Decolonial Frame – Isobel Drew, Rebekah Pierre and Robin Sen

7. Kinship Care for England and Wales in the 2020s: Assumptions, Challenges, and Opportunities – Paul Shuttleworth

8. If Adoption Is the Answer, What Was the Question? – Avery Bowser

9. Caring for Children and Young People in State Care in the 2020s – John Radoux

10. Protecting Children: A Social Model for the 2020s – Brid Featherstone and Anna Gupta

11. Conclusion: Children’s Services Reform Looking Back and Forwards – Robin Sen and Christian Kerr

Über Autor(innen)

Gupta, Anna
Anna Gupta is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Featherstone, Brid
Brid Featherstone is Professor of Social Work at the University of Huddersfield.

Willow, Carolyne
Carolyne Willow started her career as a child protection social worker and has spent the past 25 years campaigning for children's rights. Between 2000 and 2012, she was head of the Children's Rights Alliance for England, during which time she led the charity's successful fight for transparency in restraint techniques and initiated legal action to try and force the government to notify former child prisoners that they were unlawfully restrained.

Thoburn, June
June Thoburn is Emeritus Professor of Social Work at the University of East Anglia.

Robin Sen is Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Edinburgh and a qualified social worker who has practiced in statutory child and family social work in Scotland. He is also a qualified practice educator.

Christian Kerr is a social worker and Lecturer in Social Work and Social and Community Studies at Leeds Beckett University.