Children's services at the crossroads : a critical evaluation of contemporary policy for practice
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Children's services at the crossroads : a critical evaluation of contemporary policy for practice
Russell House Pub., 2010
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注記
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
In response to widespread and persistent concern over the ability of social services for children and families to safeguard the wellbeing of the most vulnerable children, UK governments, particularly in England, have in recent years introduced some of the most far reaching changes ever encountered in this field. However, this book argues that in England especially, despite the best intentions of those driving these changes forward, the approaches to reform which have been adopted have substantially diminished the capability of children's social services to respond effectively to the complex challenges which they face. In this book, leading authors in the field of social work explore the impact of the reform agenda on key areas of children's services practice including child safeguarding, youth offending, children in care, family support, ethical practice and child welfare law. They describe an oppressive, managerialist environment within which process and procedures are prioritised over outcomes and objectives, targets and indicators over values and professional standards, and compliance and completion over analysis and reflection.
Key themes include failures of analysis, lack of effective engagement with research, and the proceduralisation, technicalisation and deprofesionalisation of the social work task. This book argues that effective practice requires research-informed, reflective, confident and critically challenging practitioners supported by management systems which promote rather than undermine their effectiveness. Leaning on more positive developments elsewhere in the UK, it challenges ministers and senior managers to commit to the significant change of direction, both practical and conceptual, which is required if children's services are to escape from the vicious spiral of declining performance into which they currently lie in danger of descending.
目次
Children's services: reversing the vicious spiral By Patrick Ayre and Michael Preston-Shoot The policy context Children and young people's policy in Wales By Ian Butler and Mark Drakeford Safeguarding children: the Scottish perspective By Brigid Daniel and Norma Baldwin The understanding systemic caseworker: the (changing) nature and meanings of working with children and families By Harry Ferguson Client group issues The de-professionalisation of child protection: regaining our bearings By Patrick Ayre and Martin Calder New Labour and youth justice: what works or what's counted By John Pitts and Tim Bateman Children in need: the challenge of prevention for social work By Kate Morris Inadmissible evidence? New Labour and the education of children in care By Isabelle Brodie Research evidence on services Looking after social work practice in its organisational context: neglected and disconcerting questions By Michael Preston-Shoot Managerialism: at the tipping point? By Alex Chard and Patrick Ayre Technology as magic: fetish and folly in the IT-enabled reform of children's services By David Wastell and Sue White Playing with fire or rediscovering fire? The perils and potential for evidence based practice in child and family social work By Donald Forrester For my next trick: illusion in children's social policy and practice By Michael Preston-Shoot and Patrick Ayre
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