Child Welfare [electronic resource] : Historical Dimensions, Contemporary Debate
Hendrick, Harry.
Bristol, U.K. : Policy Press,
2003.
This book offers a provocative account of contemporary policies on child welfare and the ideological thrust behind them and provides an informed historical perspective on the evolution of child welfare during the last century.
Description based upon print version of record.
CHILD WELFARE; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Child welfare: ways of seeing; 2. Providing for the 'children of the nation', 1880s-1918; 3. Child welfare in a period of economic and political crises, 1918-45; 4. Optimism and liberalism: children of the welfare state, 1945-79; 5. The Conservative age: liberal moments amid poverty, ill-health and punishment, 1979-97; 6. New Labour and child welfare: panopticism in the service of communitarianism; References; Index
This book offers a provocative account of contemporary policies on child welfare and the ideological thrust behind them and provides an informed historical perspective on the evolution of child welfare during the last century.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
Child welfare -- England -- History -- 19th century.
Child welfare -- England -- History -- 20th century.
Child welfare -- England -- History.
Child welfare -- England.
Child welfare.
Social Welfare & Social Work - General
Social Welfare & Social Work
Social Sciences