Children's Perspectives on Integrated Services: Every Child Matters in Policy and Practice

ISBN-13: 9780230230392 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 248 str.

Mary Kellett

Opis

Launching Palgrave's new Interagency Working in Health and Social Care series, this book provides one of the first reflective assessments of the Every Child Matters legacy of New Labour. Woven through with the voice of the child, it examines the new landscape of children's services, in bothprinciple and practice.

Spis treści

PART I: THE EVERY CHILD MATTERS JOURNEY Introduction The Historical Context The Theoretical Framework PART II: MULTI-AGENCY WORKING IN CHILDREN'S SERVICES Social Care Education Child Health Care and Wellbeing Disadvantage, Diversity and Marginalisation The Family The Third Sector Safeguarding Children PART III: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES Children's Rights Children's Participation and Voice Childrenas Researchers Beyond Every Child Matters.

O autorze

MARY KELLETTis Professor of Childhood and Youth and Founding Director of the Children's Research Centre at the Open University, UK. She is best known for her pioneering work in the empowerment of children and young people as researchers on which she haspublished widely, authoring both How to Develop Children as Researchers (Sage, 2005) and Rethinking Children and Research (Continuum, 2010).