Re-Imagining Child Protection: Towards Humane Social Work with Families

by Kate Morris, Brid Featherstone, Susan White

Book Overview

Why has the language of the child and of child protection become so hegemonic? What is lost and gained by such language? Who is being protected, and from what, in a risk society? Given that the focus is overwhelmingly on those families who are multiply deprived, do services reinforce or ameliorate such deprivations? And is it ethical to remove children from their parents in a society riven by inequalities?

This timely book challenges a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1447308026
• ISBN13: 9781447308027
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"