The Politics of Children's Services Reform Re-examining Two Decades of Policy Change.
Drawing on access to prominent policy makers, Purcell examines the origins and impact of children's services reform under recent Labour and Conservative-led governments, including Labour's Every Child Matters programme and the Munro Review. He also reassesses the impact of high-profile chi...
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| Published: | Bristol : Policy Press, 2020. |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Purcell, Carl. | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The Politics of Children's Services Reform |h [electronic resource] : |b Re-examining Two Decades of Policy Change. |
| 260 | |a Bristol : |b Policy Press, |c 2020. | ||
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| 505 | 0 | |a Front Cover -- The Politics of Children's Services Reform: Re-examining Two Decades of Policy Change -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1 What drives children's services reform? -- Introduction -- Child abuse inquiries and scandals -- Children's services and neoliberalism -- The case for re- examining children's services reform -- Understanding the policymaking process -- Groups and networks -- Whitehall -- Politicised policymaking -- The research design and process | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Part I Children's services reform under the Labour government (1997-2010) -- 2 The Labour leadership and children's policy -- Labour economic and social policy -- The accommodation view -- The revisionist view -- The composite view -- The children's policy priorities of the Labour leaders -- Blair and education reform -- Blair and 'problem' young people -- Brown and child poverty -- The Treasury and Whitehall -- The departmental Spending Review process -- The relationship with the children's charities -- Sure Start -- Discussion -- 3 Structural reform and the Victoria Climbié inquiry | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Introduction -- The role of local authority social services departments -- The report of the Seebohm Committee -- Section 17 of the Children Act 1989 -- Labour's Modernising Social Services White Paper -- Boateng's case for reform -- The Victoria Climbié inquiry -- Background -- Accountability for child safeguarding -- Milburn's response to the inquiry -- Discussion -- 4 Every Child Matters and the Children Act 2004 -- Introduction -- The origins of the ECM Green Paper -- The five outcomes framework -- Children's social care services and social work under ECM | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Children's services and children's trusts -- The Children's Inter-Agency Group and the response to ECM -- Discussion -- 5 Delivering change for children -- Introduction -- The Change for Children programme -- Children's services departments and the DCS role -- Progressive universalism and the continued neglect of social work -- Schools reform -- The role of schools under ECM -- Bureaucratic resistance -- School autonomy -- 'Problem' young people -- Discussion -- 6 The Children's Plan, 'Broken Britain' and Baby P -- Introduction -- The Children's Plan -- Revisiting the role of schools | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Youth policy -- The Conservative Party and 'Broken Britain' -- The Conservative Party Commission on Social Workers -- Baby P and children's policy -- Labour's policy response -- Conservative pressure -- Defending progressive universalism -- Discussion -- Part II Children's services reform under the Coalition and Conservative governments (2010-19) -- 7 The priorities of the Coalition and Conservative government leaders -- Introduction -- Deficit reduction -- Public service reform -- Social policy under Cameron and Clegg -- Cameron and social justice -- Clegg and social mobility | |
| 500 | |a Welfare reform and the Treasury | ||
| 520 | |a Drawing on access to prominent policy makers, Purcell examines the origins and impact of children's services reform under recent Labour and Conservative-led governments, including Labour's Every Child Matters programme and the Munro Review. He also reassesses the impact of high-profile child abuse cases, including Victoria Climbié and Baby P. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 506 | |a Access limited to authorized users. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Child welfare |x Government policy |z Great Britain. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Children |x Services for |z Great Britain. | |
| 776 | 0 | 8 | |i Print version: |a Purcell, Carl |t The Politics of Children's Services Reform : Re-examining Two Decades of Policy Change |d Bristol : Policy Press,c2020 |
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