'Transforming' children's services? : social work, neoliberalism and the "Modern" world
Transforming Children's Services will be a vital text for social work and social policy students. Furthermore, the book directly addresses a range of issues of direct concern to practitioners
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Maidenhead, England :
Open University Press ,
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Theorizing neoliberal transformation
- 3. The 'transformational reform agenda': the Change for Children programme
- 4. Neoliberal globalism, 'race' and place: reviewing the Laming Report on the death of Victoria Climbie?
- 5. 'Transformation', technology and surveillance
- 6. Making 'anti-social behaviour': ASBO politics
- 7. 'Problem families' and 'sinbin' solutions
- 8. Making 'happier' children and more 'fulfilled' social workers? Privatizing social work services for 'looked after' children
- 9. Conclusion