Exploring Concepts of Child Well-Being: Implications for Children's Services

ISBN-13: 9781447305859 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 272 str.

Nick Axford

Opis

Nick Axford investigates the main approaches to conceptualising child well-being, applies them to the child population using household survey and agency audit data, then considers the implications for children's services.

Spis treści

Introduction; Part one: Defining and measuring the concepts: Need; Rights; Poverty; Quality of life; Social exclusion; Relationships between the concepts; Part two: The measures applied to children: Prevalence rates and distinguishing features; Relationships between the conditions; Part three: Implications for children's services: Matching conditions and service styles; Developing congruent children's services; Conclusions.