Child Welfare and Social Policy

Child welfare, both as an academic subject and an important area of government policy and professional practice, has become increasingly specialised and compartmentalised. It is therefore difficult for students, teachers and professionals to keep abreast of the wide range of policy developments and to appreciate their impact on the welfare of children. 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; 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; 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.

ISBN 1861345666   DEWEY edition DC22 ISBN13 9781861345660 (What's this?)   Pages 576 Publisher Policy Press   Volumes 1 Imprint Policy Press   Published in Bristol Format Paperback   Height (mm) 240 Publication date 16 Mar 2005   Width (mm) 172 Library of Congress 2005472315   Academic level Professional / Scholarly DEWEY 362.70941

1		Moral campaigns for children's welfare in the nineteenth century by Christine Piper		13
2		Children and social policies by Harry Hendrick		31
3		Good intentions into social action by Michael King		65
4		Children - who do we think they are? by Peter Moss and Pat Petrie		85
5		The challenge of child poverty : developing a child-centred approach by Tess Ridge		107
6		Children's welfare and children's rights by Gerison Lansdown		117
7		Risk, advanced liberalism and child welfare by Nigel Parton		127
8		Conceptualising social capital in relation to the well-being of children and young people by Virginia Morrow		143
9		Children, parents and the state by Nigel Thomas		157
10		Race, culture and the child by Kwame Owusu-Bempah		177
11		Liberalism or distributional justice? by Terry Carney		191
12		The 1989 children act and children's rights by Jeremy Roche		223
13		Assumptions about children's best interests by Christine Piper		243
14		Taking liberties : policy and the punitive turn by Barry Goldson		255
15		Tightening the net : children, community and control by Adrian James and Allison James		269
16		'Mad', 'bad' or misunderstood? by Vicki Coppock		285
17		Children and health by Malcolm Hill and Kay Tisdall		301
18		Reconstructing disability, childhood and social policy in the UK by John Davis and Nick Watson and Mairian Corker and Tom Shakespeare		323
19		Children of the welfare state by Anne Skevik		339
20		Fair but unequal? : children, ethnicity and the welfare state by Lucinda Platt		355
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"This groundbreaking selection of seminal writings puts the subject of children and social policy in 21st century Britain firmly on the map. Immense value is added by Harry Hendrick's introduction and trenchant critique, which locates every contribution within its specific policy context. This book is bound to become required reading for any under- and postgraduate social science student in the UK." Eva Lloyd, Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Studies, School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol

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