The politics of children's services reform : re-examining two decades of policy change /

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Drawing on access to prominent policy makers, Purcell examines the origins and impact of children's services reform under recent Labour and Conservative-led governments, including Labour's Every Child Matters programme and the Munro Review. He also reassesses the impact of high-profile chi...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Purcell, Carl (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Policy Press, 2020.
Temas:
Child welfare > Government policy > Great Britain.
Children > Services for > Great Britain.
Enfants > Services > Grande-Bretagne.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work.
Child welfare > Government policy.
Children > Services for.
Great Britain.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover
  • The Politics of Children's Services Reform: Re-examining Two Decades of Policy Change
  • Copyright information
  • Dedication
  • Table of contents
  • List of abbreviations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • 1 What drives children's services reform?
  • Introduction
  • Child abuse inquiries and scandals
  • Children's services and neoliberalism
  • The case for re- examining children's services reform
  • Understanding the policymaking process
  • Groups and networks
  • Whitehall
  • Politicised policymaking
  • The research design and process
  • Part I Children's services reform under the Labour government (1997-2010)
  • 2 The Labour leadership and children's policy
  • Labour economic and social policy
  • The accommodation view
  • The revisionist view
  • The composite view
  • The children's policy priorities of the Labour leaders
  • Blair and education reform
  • Blair and 'problem' young people
  • Brown and child poverty
  • The Treasury and Whitehall
  • The departmental Spending Review process
  • The relationship with the children's charities
  • Sure Start
  • Discussion
  • 3 Structural reform and the Victoria Climbié inquiry
  • Introduction
  • The role of local authority social services departments
  • The report of the Seebohm Committee
  • Section 17 of the Children Act 1989
  • Labour's Modernising Social Services White Paper
  • Boateng's case for reform
  • The Victoria Climbié inquiry
  • Background
  • Accountability for child safeguarding
  • Milburn's response to the inquiry
  • Discussion
  • 4 Every Child Matters and the Children Act 2004
  • Introduction
  • The origins of the ECM Green Paper
  • The five outcomes framework
  • Children's social care services and social work under ECM
  • Children's services and children's trusts
  • The Children's Inter-Agency Group and the response to ECM
  • Discussion
  • 5 Delivering change for children
  • Introduction
  • The Change for Children programme
  • Children's services departments and the DCS role
  • Progressive universalism and the continued neglect of social work
  • Schools reform
  • The role of schools under ECM
  • Bureaucratic resistance
  • School autonomy
  • 'Problem' young people
  • Discussion
  • 6 The Children's Plan, 'Broken Britain' and Baby P
  • Introduction
  • The Children's Plan
  • Revisiting the role of schools
  • Youth policy
  • The Conservative Party and 'Broken Britain'
  • The Conservative Party Commission on Social Workers
  • Baby P and children's policy
  • Labour's policy response
  • Conservative pressure
  • Defending progressive universalism
  • Discussion
  • Part II Children's services reform under the Coalition and Conservative governments (2010-19)
  • 7 The priorities of the Coalition and Conservative government leaders
  • Introduction
  • Deficit reduction
  • Public service reform
  • Social policy under Cameron and Clegg
  • Cameron and social justice
  • Clegg and social mobility

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