Challenging the politics of early intervention : who's 'saving' children and why /

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A vital challenge to the internationally accepted policy and practice consensus that intervention to shape parenting in the early years, underpinned by interpretations of brain science, is the way to prevent disadvantage.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Gillies, Val (Autor), Edwards, Rosalind (Autor), Horsley, Nicola (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Policy Press, 2017.
Edición:1st
Temas:
Family policy > Great Britain.
Social service > Great Britain.
Children > Great Britain > Social conditions.
Politique familiale > Grande-Bretagne.
Service social > Grande-Bretagne.
Enfants > Grande-Bretagne > Conditions sociales.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Children's Studies.
Children > Social conditions.
Family policy.
Social policy.
Social service.
Familienpolitik.
Great Britain > Social policy.
Grande-Bretagne > Politique sociale.
Great Britain.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • CHALLENGING THE POLITICS OF EARLY INTERVENTION
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1. The politics of early intervention and evidence
  • Introduction
  • Policy and the linking of early intervention, brain science and social investment
  • Evidence and early intervention
  • The â#x80;#x98;Brain Science and Early Interventionâ#x80;#x99; research project
  • Structure of book
  • 2. Citizens of the future
  • Introduction
  • Saving the children
  • The science of reform: strengthening British stock
  • Rescuing the infant brain
  • Back to the future? From risk to resilience
  • 3. Rescuing the infant brainThe quiet revolution: social investment and the â#x80;#x98;Third Wayâ#x80;#x99;
  • Commandeering infant brains
  • Examining the brain claims
  • Prevention science: epigenetics and shrunken brains
  • 4. In whose best interests?
  • Introduction
  • Policy networks and the â#x80;#x98;polycentric stateâ#x80;#x99;
  • Troubling the consensus: political interests
  • Financialising social welfare: business interests
  • Giving and taking: the rise of philanthrocapitalism
  • Strategy, power and justification: professional interests
  • Therapy wars: the institutionalisation of attachmentIn whose interests then?
  • 5. Case studies of interests at play
  • Case study 1: Wave Trust
  • Case study 2: Family Nurse Partnerships
  • Case study 3: Parent Infant Partnership UK (PIPUK)
  • 6. Saving children
  • Introduction
  • Evangelical early intervention
  • Reliance on science: the truth
  • Intergenerational cycles of deprivation
  • Implications
  • 7. Reproducing inequalities
  • Introduction
  • Intensive attachment
  • â#x80;#x98;Parentingâ#x80;#x99; as gendered, biologised and learnt
  • Biologising, buffering and effacing social classNeoliberalised race and biolologised brains
  • Conclusion
  • 8. Reclaiming the future: alternative visions
  • The brave new world of prevention science
  • Values beyond value
  • Material matters
  • Supporting families
  • From individual risk to social harm
  • References

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