Reforming Child Protection

by Lonne; Bob

• ISBN13: 9780415429054
• ISBN10: 0415429056
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-09-03
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Child protection is one of the most high profile and challenging areas of social work, as well as one where children's lives and family life are seen to be at stake. Vital as child protection work is, this book argues that there is a pressing need for change in the understanding and consequent organization of child protection in many Western nations. Grounded in the recent and contemporary literature, research and scholarly inquiry, this book capitalises on the experiences and voices of children, young people, families and workers who are the most significant stakeholders in child protection. It will be an essential read for those who work, research, teach or study in the area.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	p. xi
Foreword	p. xii
List of abbreviations	p. xvi
Reforming child protection-introduction: an overview	p. 1
Reforming child protection: principles and themes of effective child, family, and community well-being	p. 3
The successes and failures of child protection	p. 15
The chequered history of contemporary child protection practice	p. 17
The original discovery of child abuse and its subsequent disappearance	p. 19
The (re)emergence of child abuse as a major social problem	p. 23
The growing crisis in child protection	p. 26
Conclusions	p. 35
Differential responses and changing social mandates	p. 37
Differential response	p. 38
Integrating "child protection" and "family support"	p. 42
Improving the "well-being" of children	p. 46
Managerialization and proceduralization	p. 51
Workload and service delivery outcomes	p. 54
The troubled state of organizational environments	p. 56
Organizational failure	p. 57
Ideology and the reconstructed welfare state	p. 58
New Public Management	p. 60
Case management-part of the problem?	p. 62
Working in child protection	p. 66
Organizational cultures and climates	p. 70
Service users and stakeholders	p. 75
Limitations of the literature	p. 76
Relationship	p. 77
Cultural issues	p. 77
Children and young people	p. 78
Parents	p. 81
Gender and service user partnership	p. 85
Foster carers	p. 86
Foster carer's own children	p. 89
Child protection practitioners	p. 90
Community stakeholders	p. 92
Summary	p. 95
A child and family well-being reform agenda	p. 97
Reforming child protection: principles and processes	p. 99
A comprehensive new approach	p. 100
Beyond risk and child death	p. 101
The centrality of the family	p. 103
A new approach to evidence	p. 105
Let's have some real change for a change	p. 106
Supporting workers	p. 108
Moving beyond the rhetoric	p. 109
A reorienting of thinking	p. 110
The centrality of neighborhoods and community-based services	p. 111
A new ethical and practice framework	p. 114
What is ethics?	p. 116
Theoretical approaches to ethics	p. 119
Ethical practice for child and family well-being	p. 122
The managerial context for ethical practice	p. 122
Theoretical framework	p. 124
Implications for child and family well-being practice	p. 128
Effective organizational and service delivery models	p. 131
The core problems to be addressed	p. 132
Principles and themes for reform	p. 134
Structural rearrangements and realignments	p. 139
Planning and implementing change	p. 151
Failed changed management	p. 153
Principles and themes for change management processes	p. 157
Systemic change processes	p. 159
Organizational change management processes	p. 163
Crisis? What crisis? The past and the future: choice and chance	p. 169
Change and the future of child and family well-being practice	p. 171
The successes and failures of child protection	p. 173
The reform agenda	p. 178
Crisis, what crisis?	p. 185
References	p. 187
Index	p. 209
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