Positive Child Protection: A View from Abroad - Softcover

Baistow, Karen; Etc.; Cooper, Andrew; Hetherington, Rachel; Pitts, John; Spriggs, Angela

Softcover

ISBN 10: 189892435X ISBN 13: 9781898924357

Publisher: Russell House Publishing Ltd, 1995

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Synopsis

This work argues that in spite of the 1989 Children Act, child protection social work in England is still characterized by high professional anxiety, political ambiugity and a feeling of "stuckness". As a result of confusing relationships among the law, the citizen, social work and the state, and also the government's ambilavence toward social intervention in families, the authors contend that: social work has been bureaucratized; social workers have been pilloried in the press and castigated by government; and that vulnerable children are no safer, while the log-jam of unallocated child protection cases has not diminished. This study examines the English child protection system through European eyes, offering a range of alternatives to the impasse which currently afflicts it. It aims to answer questions left hanging by previous analysis, such as: which system best promotes partnership with parents?, which one offers most support to social workers?, and how can relationships between social workers and judges/magistrates be improved?

Edition details

• Publisher: Russell House Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 189892435X
• ISBN 13: 9781898924357
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160