TY - BOOK

T1 - Protecting Children

T2 - A Social Model

AU - Featherstone, Brid

AU - Gupta, Anna

AU - Morris, Kate

AU - White, Sue

PY - 2018/9/19

Y1 - 2018/9/19

N2 - The book’s key thesis is that the practices that have been developed to protect children in the UK need to be understood and located within a wider appreciation, that for many families, especially those living in poverty, such practices are experienced as paradoxically over-intrusive and neglectful.While the state and its resources shrink, its net widens with more children subject to investigations and removal, and fewer families offered the help they need. We argue that another way is possible, and offer a message of hope developing a social model of protecting children that emphasises:• Fostering the protective capacities to be found within families and communities• Co-producing services• Developing poverty-aware policies and practice• Embedding ethics and human rights in everyday talks and routines.

AB - The book’s key thesis is that the practices that have been developed to protect children in the UK need to be understood and located within a wider appreciation, that for many families, especially those living in poverty, such practices are experienced as paradoxically over-intrusive and neglectful.While the state and its resources shrink, its net widens with more children subject to investigations and removal, and fewer families offered the help they need. We argue that another way is possible, and offer a message of hope developing a social model of protecting children that emphasises:• Fostering the protective capacities to be found within families and communities• Co-producing services• Developing poverty-aware policies and practice• Embedding ethics and human rights in everyday talks and routines.

KW - child protection policy and practice

KW - social model

KW - family support

M3 - Book

SN - 9781447332732

SN - 9781447332756

BT - Protecting Children

PB - Policy Press

CY - Bristol

ER -