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.
Introduction Part One: Child welfare: the historical background; Introduction; Moral campaigns for children's welfare in the nineteenth century ~ Christine Piper; Children and social policies ~ Harry Hendrick;
Part Two: Identifying and exploring concepts and approaches; Introduction; Good intentions into social action ~ Michael King; Children - who do we think they are? ~ Peter Moss and Pat Petrie; The challenge of child poverty: developing a child-centred approach ~ Tess Ridge; Children's welfare and children's rights ~ Gerison Lansdown; Risk, advanced liberalism and child welfare ~ Nigel Parton; Conceptualising social capital in relation to the well-being of children and young people ~ Virginia Morrow; Children, parents and the state ~ Nigel Thomas; Race, culture and the child ~ Kwame Owusu-Bempah; Liberalism or distributional justice? ~ Terry Carney;
Part Three: Policies, trends, contexts and ramifications; Introduction; The 1989 Children Act and children's rights ~ Jeremy Roche; Assumptions about children's best interests ~ Christine Piper; Taking liberties: policy and the punitive turn ~ Barry Goldson; Tightening the net: children, community and control ~ Adrian James and Allison James; 'Mad', 'bad' or misunderstood ~ Vicki Coppock; Children and health ~ Malcolm Hill and Kay Tisdall; Reconstructing disability, childhood and social policy in the UK ~ John Davis, Nick Watson, Mairian Corker and Tom Shakespeare; Children of the welfare state ~ Anne Skevik; Fair but unequal? Children, ethnicity and the welfare state ~ Lucinda Platt; Housing policy and children ~ Paul Daniel and John Ivatts; Young carers and public policy ~ Andrew Bibby and Saul Becker; Education and the economy ~ Sally Tomlinson; Daycare: dreams and nightmares ~ Penelope Leach;
Part Four: Children, social policy and the future; Introduction; Investing in the citizen-workers of the future ~ Ruth Lister; Children's participation: control and self-realisation in British late modernity ~ Alan Prout; Conclusion.
