Scandal, social policy, and social welfare
By: Ian Butler and Mark Drakeford.
Contributors: Drakeford, Mark.; Butler, Ian, 1955-
Edition: Rev. 2nd ed. / consultant editor: Jo Campling.
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Bristok UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
Subjects: Public welfare -- Great Britain; Scandals -- Great Britain; Social problems -- Great Britain; Great Britain -- Social policy -- 1979-
Notes: "A BASW/Policy Press title"--Cover.

Previous ed. published as: Social policy, social welfare and scandal. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Scandal; title: 'Gothic nightmare': madness and public policy from the eighteenth century; title: 'The corruption of care': the Ely Hospital Inquiry 1969; title: 'Household happiness, gracious children': children, welfare and public policy, 1840-1970; title: The story of Cinderella: the report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Care and Supervision Provided in Relation to Maria Colwell 1974; title: 'Mere oblivion': the fate of the institution and the advent of community care; title: 'Carnage in the community': the Christopher Clunis Inquiry 1993; title: 'An ambience of uneasiness': the residential care of children, 1834-1990; title: 'A narrow, punitive and harshly restrictive experience': the Pindown experience and the protection of children. The Report of the Staffordshire Child Care Inquiry 1991; title: Scandal, welfare and public policy; title: The final chapter?