Re-imagining Child Protection: Towards Humane Social Work with Families

Brid Featherstone; Sue White; Kate Morris

doi:10.46692/9781447308034

This book challenges the current child protection culture and calls for family-minded humane practice where children are understood as relational beings, parents are recognized as people with needs and hopes, and families are seen as carrying extraordinary capacities for care and protection.

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Frontmatter
pp i-ii

Contents
pp iii-iii

Acknowledgements
pp iv-iv

one - Introduction
pp 1-18

two - Re-imagining child protection in the context of re-imagining welfare
pp 19-36

three - We need to talk about ethics
pp 37-52

four - Developing research mindedness in learning cultures
pp 53-74

five - Towards a just culture: designing humane social work organisations
pp 75-94

six - Getting on and getting by: living with poverty
pp 95-112

seven - Thinking afresh about relationships: men, women, parents and services
pp 113-130

eight - Tainted love: how dangerous families became troubled
pp 131-146

nine - Conclusions
pp 147-158

References
pp 159-176

Index
pp 177-184

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