Change and Continuity in Children's Services

ISBN: 1447322223

Author: Parker, Roy

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Product Description This collection of 12 new and revised essays on child care and childrens services, written by leading child welfare historian Roy Parker, draws on his lifetime of research in this area. By exploring various topics these essays explain significant political, economic, legal and ideological aspects of this history from the mid-1850s. This unique and lasting review of child care services allows readers to understand how the services for some of societys most vulnerable children have become what they are, how well they have met and now meet the needs of those children. The collection provides a high-quality, historical reference resource that will inform and capture the interest of social work and social policy students as well as social and legal historians, political scientists and those involved in administration and government, struggling with the issues of the day. Review "This is a book that should be read by every serious researcher, policy maker, manager, and senior practitioner in children's services." -Research, Policy & Planning"Highly recommended. The book's extensive use of notes and references as footnotes within a separate section at the end of the volume is well conveived. This enables the reader to engage with the text and its multiple use of statistics in a manner that does not hamper the reader's understanding." -Child Care in PracticeThis is an incisive, scholarly, and elegantly written book, relevant to the future as to the past. I know no one else who could have written it. -- Ian Sinclair, University of York, UKIn this unique historical overview, Parker brings life-long scholarship to an analysis of the changing problems facing disadvantaged children in Britain. Continuities and discontinuities, conflicts and resolutions are carefully considered in this exceptionally thoughtful and fascinating compendium. -- Roger Bullock, emeritus professor of child welfare research, University of Bristol, UK, and former director, Dartington Social Research Unit, UK About the Author Roy Parker is professor emeritus of social policy at the University of Bristol. Formerly he taught at the LSE. He has a longstanding interest in the history and politics of social policy and the plight of disadvantaged children. His last book Uprooted (Policy Press, 2008) traced the history of child emigration to Canada. Before his academic career he worked as a child care officer and in residential care.