Social work and Irish people in Britain ：Historical and contemporary responses to Irish children and families

Publication subTitle ：Historical and contemporary responses to Irish children and families

Author： Garrett   Paul Michael (Author)  

Publisher： Policy Press‎

Publication year： 2004

E-ISBN: 9781847425959

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781861344113

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9781861344120

Subject： C91 Sociology

Keyword： Social work

Language： ENG

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Social work and Irish people in Britain

Description

Dominant social work and social care discourses on 'race' and ethnicity often fail to incorporate an Irish dimension. This book challenges this omission and provides new insights into how social work has engaged with Irish children and their families, historically and to the present day. The book provides the first detailed exploration social work with Irish children and families in Britain; examines archival materials to illuminate historical patterns of engagement; provides an account of how social services departments in England and Wales are currently responding to the needs of Irish children and families; incorporates the views of Irish social workers and acts as a timely intervention in the debate on social work's 'modernisation' agenda. The book will be valuable to social workers, social work educators and students. Its key themes will also fascinate those interested in 'race' and ethnicity in Britain in the early 21st century.

Chapter

SOCIAL WORK AND IRISH PEOPLE IN BRITAIN

Contents

List of tables and figures

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

Introduction

1. Fleeing Ireland: social exclusion and the flight of Irish ‘unmarriedmothers’ to England in the 1950s and 1960s

2. Responses in Britain to the PFIs: the repatriation of ‘unmarried mothers’ to Ireland in the 1950s and 1960s

3. The ‘daring experiment’: London County Council and the discharge from care of children to Ireland in the 1950s and 1960s

4. ‘Race’, ethnicity and Irish ‘invisibility’

5. Social services departments and Irish children and families in the early 21st century

6. ‘Maximising things for your community’: the views of social workers

Conclusion

References

Appendix A: Information derived from the Department of Health ‘Children in Need’ (CIN) survey, September-October 2001

Appendix B: Statistical responses to the questionnaire mailed to social services departments in England and Wales

Index

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