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Foreword by Gary Melton |
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PART I Reforming child protectionintroduction: an overview |
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1 Reforming child protection: principles and themes of effective child, family, and community well-being |
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PART II The successes and failures of child protection |
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2 The chequered history of contemporary child protection practice |
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The original discovery of child abuse and its subsequent disappearance |
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The (re)emergence of child abuse as a major social problem |
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The growing crisis in child protection |
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3 Differential responses and changing social mandates |
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Integrating "child protection" and "family support" |
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Improving the "well-being" of children |
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Managerialization and proceduralization |
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Workload and service delivery outcomes |
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4 The troubled state of organizational environments |
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Ideology and the reconstructed welfare state |
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Case managementpart of the problem? |
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Working in child protection |
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Organizational cultures and climates |
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5 Service users and stakeholders |
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Limitations of the literature |
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Children and young people |
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Gender and service user partnership |
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Foster carer's own children |
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Child protection practitioners |
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PART III A child and family well-being reform agenda |
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6 Reforming child protection: principles and processes |
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A comprehensive new approach |
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Beyond risk and child death |
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The centrality of the family |
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A new approach to evidence |
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Let's have some real change for a change |
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Moving beyond the rhetoric |
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A reorienting of thinking |
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The centrality of neighborhoods and community-based services |
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7 A new ethical and practice framework |
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Theoretical approaches to ethics |
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Ethical practice for child and family well-being |
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The managerial context for ethical practice |
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Implications for child and family well-being practice |
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8 Effective organizational and service delivery models |
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The core problems to be addressed |
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Principles and themes for reform |
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Structural rearrangements and realignments |
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9 Planning and implementing change |
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Failed changed management |
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Principles and themes for change management processes |
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Systemic change processes |
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Organizational change management processes |
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PART IV Crisis? What crisis? The past and the future: choice and chance |
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10 Change and the future of child and family well-being practice |
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The successes and failures of child protection |
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References |
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Index |
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