Re-imagining Child Protection

Towards Humane Social Work with Families

Featherstone, Brid, White, Susan, Brid Featherstone, Susan White, Kate Morris

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9781447308027
• eBook ISBN: 9781447312017
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Social Work
• Index: Social Sciences

Why has the language of the child and of child protection become so hegemonic? What is lost and gained by such language? Who is being protected, and from what, in a risk society? Given that the focus is overwhelmingly on those families who are multiply deprived, do services reinforce or ameliorate such deprivations? And is it ethical to remove children from their parents in a society riven by inequalities?

This timely book challenges a child protection culture that has become mired in muscular authoritarianism towards multiply deprived families. It calls for family-minded humane practice where children are understood as relational beings, parents are recognized as people with needs and hopes and families as carrying extraordinary capacities for care and protection. The authors, who have over three decades of experience as social workers, managers, educators and researchers in England, also identify the key ingredients of just organizational cultures where learning is celebrated.

This important book will be required reading for students on qualifying and post-qualifying courses in child protection, social workers, managers, academics and policy makers.

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• one Introduction
• two Re-imagining child protection in the context of re-imagining welfare
• three We need to talk about ethics
• four Developing research mindedness in learning cultures
• five Towards a just culture: designing humane social work organisations
• six Getting on and getting by: living with poverty
• seven Thinking afresh about relationships: men, women, parents and services
• eight Tainted love: how dangerous families became troubled
• nine Conclusions
• References