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Drawing on original research this book provides a challenging and instructive analysis of the nature of the heated and often contradicting arguments of recent years about how to reform the child care system, and the emergence of a central concern with child protection.
It provides a unique insight into the political influences on the 1989 Children Act and the issues it attempted to address, the bargains that were struck in the process of it becoming law and the new balances it introduced between the role of the state, the responsibilities of parents and the rights of children.
It provides a unique insight into the political influences on the 1989 Children Act and the issues it attempted to address, the bargains that were struck in the process of it becoming law and the new balances it introduced between the role of the state, the responsibilities of parents and the rights of children.
About the author
NIGEL PARTON is Principal Lecturer in Social Work at Huddersfield Polytechnic. During 1989-90 he was Hallsworth Fellow in the Department of Social Policy and Social Work at Manchester University. He is author of The Politics of Child Abuse (Macmillan, 1985).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Governing the Family
Book Subtitle: Child Care, Child Protection and the State
Authors: Nigel Parton
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21441-9
Publisher: Red Globe Press London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Nigel Parton 1991
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 263
Additional Information: Previously published under the imprint Palgrave
Topics: Child Well-being