RE-IMAGINING CHILD PROTECTION

RE-IMAGINING CHILD PROTECTION

Contents

Contents

Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction

1. Introduction

Locating our current troubles

Locating our current troubles

Back to the future

Back to the future

Parenting matters but not parents? Social investment meets child protection in an age of austerity

Parenting matters but not parents? Social investment meets child protection in an age of austerity

Humane practice

Humane practice

Concluding remarks

Concluding remarks

Structure of the book

Structure of the book

2. Re-imagining child protection in the context of re-imagining welfare

2. Re-imagining child protection in the context of re-imagining welfare

Introduction

Introduction

Neoliberalism, risk and responsibility

Neoliberalism, risk and responsibility

Safeguarding, child protection and New Labour

Safeguarding, child protection and New Labour

Responding to crisis

Responding to crisis

Re-imagining welfare and re-imagining child protection

Re-imagining welfare and re-imagining child protection

Conclusion

Conclusion

3. We need to talk about ethics

3. We need to talk about ethics

Hollowing out ethics?

Hollowing out ethics?

Exploring different schools of ethics: an overview

Exploring different schools of ethics: an overview

Thinking ethically about working with those who harm themselves and others

Thinking ethically about working with those who harm themselves and others

Concluding remarks

Concluding remarks

4. Developing research mindedness in learning cultures

4. Developing research mindedness in learning cultures

Misuses and misreadings: research, policy and practice as social drama

Misuses and misreadings: research, policy and practice as social drama

Research and learning: the politics of evidence

Research and learning: the politics of evidence

Child and family social work and the drug metaphor

Child and family social work and the drug metaphor

Social work and policy-based evidence and the economic imperative

Social work and policy-based evidence and the economic imperative

Researching your own domains: research as practice in ‘learning organisations’

Researching your own domains: research as practice in ‘learning organisations’

5. Towards a just culture: designing humane social work organisations

5. Towards a just culture: designing humane social work organisations

Looking back on Climbié: what went wrong?

Looking back on Climbié: what went wrong?

Attending to what matters: human factors in children’s services

Attending to what matters: human factors in children’s services

System design for social work: simple organisations, complex jobs

System design for social work: simple organisations, complex jobs

Conclusion

Conclusion

6. Getting on and getting by: living with poverty

6. Getting on and getting by: living with poverty

Introduction

Introduction

Thinking about suffering: representing, colonising, offering ‘voice’

Thinking about suffering: representing, colonising, offering ‘voice’

Thinking about poverty

Thinking about poverty

Money can’t buy you happiness, but…?

Money can’t buy you happiness, but…?

Mothering: engaging with working class mothers’ accounts

Mothering: engaging with working class mothers’ accounts

Poverty, parenting and maltreatment

Poverty, parenting and maltreatment

Some forgotten and/or marginalised messages for practice

Some forgotten and/or marginalised messages for practice

Conclusion

Conclusion

7. Thinking afresh about relationships: men, women, parents and services

7. Thinking afresh about relationships: men, women, parents and services

Introduction

Introduction

Men and women and their relationships in changing families

Men and women and their relationships in changing families

Children and their relational meaning

Children and their relational meaning

Gender, social constructions and practices

Gender, social constructions and practices

Domestic abuse

Domestic abuse

Conclusion

Conclusion

8. Tainted love: how dangerous families became troubled

8. Tainted love: how dangerous families became troubled

From partnership to problematisation

From partnership to problematisation

Family practices and family experiences

Family practices and family experiences

Doing with and doing to: family involvement in care and protection

Doing with and doing to: family involvement in care and protection

Conclusion: care in adversity

Conclusion: care in adversity

Conclusions

Conclusions

Why do we need change?

Why do we need change?

So towards humane social work with families: a family support project for the 21st century

So towards humane social work with families: a family support project for the 21st century

Concluding thoughts

Concluding thoughts

References

References

Index

Index