The Future of Children's Care
eBook - ePub

The Future of Children's Care

Critical Perspectives on Children's Services Reform

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Future of Children's Care

Critical Perspectives on Children's Services Reform

About this book

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.

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Yes, you can access The Future of Children's Care by Robin Sen,Christian Kerr in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Social Policy. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Policy Press
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781447368267
eBook ISBN
9781447368281

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Notes on contributors
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Foreword
  9. 1 Introduction: critical perspectives on children’s services reform
  10. 2 Where now? Children’s rights in England into the 2020s
  11. 3 More of memes than schemes: networked propagation in children’s social care
  12. 4 Reclaiming social work, the social work complex and issues of bias in children’s services
  13. 5 Humane social work practice: a more parent friendly system? Hopes and challenges in the 2020s
  14. 6 Exploring and re-imagining children’s services in England through a decolonial frame
  15. 7 Kinship care for England and Wales in the 2020s: assumptions, challenges and opportunities
  16. 8 If adoption is the answer, what was the question?
  17. 9 Caring for children and young people in state care in the 2020s
  18. 10 Protecting children: a social model for the 2020s
  19. 11 Conclusion: children’s services reform looking back and forwards
  20. Index