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

RE-IMAGINING CHILD PROTECTION\nContents\nAcknowledgements\n1. Introduction\n	Locating our current troubles\n	Back to the future\n	Parenting matters but not parents? Social investment meets child protection in an age of austerity\n	Humane practice\n	Concluding remarks\n	Structure of the book\n2. Re-imagining child protection in the context of re-imagining welfare\n	Introduction\n	Neoliberalism, risk and responsibility\n	Safeguarding, child protection and New Labour\n	Responding to crisis\n	Re-imagining welfare and re-imagining child protection\n	Conclusion\n3. We need to talk about ethics\n	Hollowing out ethics?\n	Exploring different schools of ethics: an overview\n	Thinking ethically about working with those who harm themselves and others\n	Concluding remarks\n4. Developing research mindedness in learning cultures\n	Misuses and misreadings: research, policy and practice as social drama\n	Research and learning: the politics of evidence\n	Child and family social work and the drug metaphor\n	Social work and policy-based evidence and the economic imperative\n	Researching your own domains: research as practice in ‘learning organisations’\n5. Towards a just culture: designing humane social work organisations\n	Looking back on Climbié: what went wrong?\n	Attending to what matters: human factors in children’s services\n	System design for social work: simple organisations, complex jobs\n	Conclusion\n6. Getting on and getting by:  living with poverty\n	Introduction\n	Thinking about suffering: representing, colonising, offering ‘voice’\n	Thinking about poverty\n	Money can’t buy you happiness, but…?\n	Mothering: engaging with working class mothers’ accounts\n	Poverty, parenting and maltreatment\n	Some forgotten and/or marginalised messages for practice\n	Conclusion\n7. Thinking afresh about relationships: men, women, parents and services\n	Introduction\n	Men and women and their relationships in changing families\n	Children and their relational meaning\n	Gender, social constructions and practices\n	Domestic abuse\n	Conclusion\n8. Tainted love: how dangerous families became troubled\n	From partnership to problematisation\n	Family practices and family experiences\n	Doing with and doing to: family involvement in care and protection\n	Conclusion: care in adversity\nConclusions\n	Why do we need change?\n	So towards humane social work with families: a family support project for the 21st century\n	Concluding thoughts\nReferences\nIndex