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Cover Protecting Children

Protecting Children

A Social Model

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Authors:
Brid Featherstone
,
Anna Gupta
,
Kate Morris
, and
Susan White

This book explores the policy and practice possibilities offered by a social model of child protection. Drawing on developments in mental health and disability studies, it examines the conceptual, political and practice implications of this new framework.

Publisher:
Policy Press
Publication Date:
19 Sep 2018
Online ISBN:
9781447332749
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.51952/9781447332749
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Front Matter
Front Matter
One: Introduction
Two: Trouble ahead? Contending discourses in child protection
Three: Building better people: policy aspirations and family life
Four: Family experiences of care and protection services: the good, the bad and the hopeful
Five: A social model for protecting children: changing our thinking?
Six: A social model: experiences in practice
Seven: Domestic abuse: a case study
Eight: Crafting different stories: changing minds and hearts
Nine: Concluding thoughts
Back Matter
References
Index

The state is increasingly experienced as both intrusive and neglectful, particularly by those living in poverty, leading to loss of trust and widespread feelings of alienation and disconnection.

Against this tense background, this innovative book argues that child protection policies and practices have become part of the problem, rather than ensuring children’s well-being and safety.

Building on the ideas in the best-selling Re-imagining child protection and drawing together a wide range of social theorists and disciplines, the book:

• Challenges existing notions of child protection, revealing their limits;

• Ensures that the harms children and families experience are explored in a way that acknowledges the social and economic contexts in which they live;

• Explains how the protective capacities within families and communities can be mobilised and practices of co-production adopted;

• Places ethics and human rights at the centre of everyday conversations and practices.

Brid Featherstone is Professor of Social Work at the University of Huddersfield.

Anna Gupta is Professor of Social Work at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Kate Morris is Professor of Social Work at the University of Sheffield.

Sue White is Professor of Social Work at the University of Sheffield.

Author/Editor details at time of book publication.

Copyright:
© Policy Press 2018
Hardback ISBN:
9781447332732
Paperback ISBN:
9781447332756
ePub ISBN:
9781447332763
Online ISBN:
9781447332749
Page Extent:
196
Keywords:
child protection policy; child protection practices; families; communities; child safety
Global Social Challenges:
Life Stages and Intergenerationality
Subject:
Children, Young People and Families, Child Welfare, Childhood and Youth Studies, Social Work, Social Work with Children and Families
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