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Change and continuity in children's services /
There are, sadly, children whose lives are severely blighted by abuse, by neglect and by separation from their parents. Ways have been devised to protect and care for them. Some have been encouragingly enlightened while others have been deeply misguided. These essays describe and explain the signifi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol :
Policy Press,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- CHANGE AND CONTINUITY IN CHILDREN'S SERVICES; Cover illustration; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. Introduction: patterns of change and continuity ; I Legislation; II Policy; III Making progress; IV Problems and issues; 2. Residential child care: an historical perspective; I The Poor Law influence; II The quest for control; III The influence of the voluntary children's organisations; IV The inter-war years; V The post-war years; VI What of the future?; 3. From boarding-out to foster care*; I Boarding-out and the Poor Law in the nineteenth century
- II The inter-war yearsIII The war years and after; 4. The evolution of landmark legislation*; I The 'Children's Charter' 1908; II Dismantling the Poor Law; III Taking reform further; IV The process of reform; 5. Getting started with the Children Act 1948: what do we learn?*; I A starting point; II The lucky dip; III Women in higher places; IV Getting established; V Assessing performance; VI Improving the services; VII Lessons?; 6. Child care in the melting pot in the 1980s*; I Narrowness; II The lack of differentiation; III Static images; IV Imitation; V So, what's to be done?
- 7. Trends, transitions and tensions: children's services since the 1980s*I Looking at some statistics1; II Policies and politics; III And some continuities; 8. Reflections on the assessment of outcomes in child care*; I The stability of outcomes over time; II The relationship between individual and aggregate outcomes; III How comprehensive should selected outcomes be?; IV The categories of children for whom outcomes are assessed; V The evaluation of outcomes; VI Attribution, prediction and explanation; 9. The role and function of inquiries*; I Variety, scope and classification
- II Inauguration, form and procedureIII So, what next?; IV The call for lessons to be learned; V Inquiries: change or continuity?; 10. Evidence, judgement, values and engagement*; I Evidence; II Judgement; III Values; IV Engagement; 11. Emerging issues: looking ahead; I The private provision of services; II Emerging trends; III The quest for prevention; Notes and references ; Bibliography; Index