Overview
Provides an important up-to-date review of contemporary child protection issues
Brings together a range of academic debates and dilemmas around professionals, policy and practices in the often fraught area of child welfare
Combines aspects of sociological and psychological / development theory in unique ways to make the case for different approaches to social work practice
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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About this book
This book makes a distinctive contribution to reflections on what child-centred practice means in the complex area of child welfare. With a theoretical framework informed by insights from a number of disciplinary perspectives, the author pays particular attention to psychosocial, emotional, sensory and spatial influences. The book applies its ideas to case studies, in order to reflect on the contemporary landscape of children’s services within the UK. The book sets out the way policy and law establish a complex terrain for contemporary child welfare practice. At a time when the government demands clear answers to perceived child protection failings, Pinkney carefully reflects upon the complexity involved in protecting children.
This timely re-examination of child welfare will appeal to social work and children’s services professionals; policy makers; as well as students and scholars of social work, childhood studies and social policy.
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“Well-written and thought provoking, providing many profound insights into the complex challenges facing the contemporary social worker.” (Nick Frost, Leeds Beckett University, UK)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: New Directions in Children’s Welfare
Book Subtitle: Professionals, Policy and Practice
Authors: Sharon Pinkney
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54539-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-54538-1Published: 31 January 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-54539-8Published: 10 January 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 238
Topics: Children, Youth and Family Policy, Childhood, Adolescence and Society, Social Work