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1 online resource (190 pages) |
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RE-IMAGINING CHILD PROTECTION; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; Locating our current troubles; Back to the future; Parenting matters but not parents? Social investment meets child protection in an age of austerity; Humane practice; Concluding remarks; Structure of the book; 2. Re-imagining child protection in the context of re-imagining welfare; Introduction; Neoliberalism, risk and responsibility; Safeguarding, child protection and New Labour; Responding to crisis; Re-imagining welfare and re-imagining child protection; Conclusion; 3. We need to talk about ethics; Hollowing out ethics? |
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Exploring different schools of ethics: an overviewThinking ethically about working with those who harm themselves and others; Concluding remarks; 4. Developing research mindedness in learning cultures; Misuses and misreadings: research, policy and practice as social drama; Research and learning: the politics of evidence; Child and family social work and the drug metaphor; Social work and policy-based evidence and the economic imperative; Researching your own domains: research as practice in 'learning organisations'; 5. Towards a just culture: designing humane social work organisations. |
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Looking back on Climbié: what went wrong?Attending to what matters: human factors in children's services; System design for social work: simple organisations, complex jobs; Conclusion; 6. Getting on and getting by: living with poverty; Introduction; Thinking about suffering: representing, colonising, offering 'voice'; Thinking about poverty; Money can't buy you happiness, but ...?; Mothering: engaging with working class mothers' accounts; Poverty, parenting and maltreatment; Some forgotten and/or marginalised messages for practice; Conclusion. |
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7. Thinking afresh about relationships: men, women, parents and servicesIntroduction; Men and women and their relationships in changing families; Children and their relational meaning; Gender, social constructions and practices; Domestic abuse; Conclusion; 8. Tainted love: how dangerous families became troubled; From partnership to problematisation; Family practices and family experiences; Doing with and doing to: family involvement in care and protection; Conclusion: care in adversity; Conclusions; Why do we need change? |
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So towards humane social work with families: a family support project for the 21st centuryConcluding thoughts; References; Index. |
| Summary |
This book challenges the current child protection culture and 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 also identify the key ingredients of just organizational cultures where learning is celebrated. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Child welfare.
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Child welfare. |
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Public welfare.
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Public welfare. |
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Social work with children.
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Social work with children. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
White, Susan.
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Morris, Kate, 1962 June 18-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Featherstone, Brid. Re-imagining child protection : Towards humane social work with families. Bristol : Policy Press, ©2014 9781447308027 |
| ISBN |
9781447308034 (electronic book) |
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1447308034 (electronic book) |
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9781447312000 (electronic book) |
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1447312007 (electronic book) |
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9781447312017 |
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1447312015 |
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1306714117 (e-book) |
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9781306714112 (e-book) |
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9781447308010 |
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1447308018 |
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9781447308027 (hardback) |
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1447308026 (hardback) |
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