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  • Sense and Sensibility in Social Work with Families and Children

    European Perspectives on Developments in Child Protection and Welfare

    Edited by Sara Serbati, Edgar Marthinsen, Brid Featherstone ...
    Series series Research in Social Work
    Practitioners and managers in child protection often struggle to focus on the needs of children and families in the face of ever-expanding bureaucracy.This book brings together authors from across Europe to explore the strategies and solutions that promote doing things right by those in need rather than to the letter of procedure. It argues that more flexible, community/relationship/partnership ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • The Future of Children’s Care

    Critical Perspectives on Children’s Services Reform

    by Avery Bowser, Taliah Drayak, Brid Featherstone, Anna Gupta, Isobel Drew, Joe Hanley, Rebekah Pierre, John Radoux, Paul Shuttleworth, June Thoburn, Carolyne Willow ...
    Over the last decade there has been a series of Government policy initiatives in respect of children’s services and social work education in England, many of which aim to de-regulate or privatise aspects of these services. Critically considering the impact of the MacAlister Review, this book explores the past, present and future of children’s services in the UK from a range of perspectives – lived ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Protecting Children

    A Social Model

    by Brid Featherstone, Anna Gupta, Kate Morris, Susan White ...
    The state is increasingly experienced as both intrusive and neglectful, particularly by those living in poverty, leading to loss of trust and widespread feelings of alienation and disconnection.Against this tense background, this innovative book argues that child protection policies and practices have become part of the problem, rather than ensuring children’s well-being and safety.Building on the ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Supporting Children and Families

    Lessons from Sure Start for Evidence-Based Practice in Health, Social Care and Education

    by Graham Bowpitt, Alison Edgley, Marjorie Finnigan, Brid Featherstone, Sarah Chaudhary, Mairi Ann Cullen, John Carpenter, Valerie Wigfall, Barbara Sianesi, Miranda Thurston, Alissa Goodman, Pamela Graham, Sharon Hodgson, Pauline Hall, Matthew Pearson, Susan McQuail, Nicky Nicholls, Ann Martin, Martin Manby, Lynn McKenna, Geoff Lindsay, Jill Jesson ...
    Supporting Children and Families gathers together the lessons learned from perhaps the largest scale social experiment ever undertaken in England - Sure Start, the programme designed to improve the emotional development, health and education of children.It boils down the huge amount of knowledge and experience generated by the Sure Start programmes and local evaluation studies, with chapters ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Capability-Promoting Policies

    Enhancing Individual and Social Development

    by Xavier Rambla, Christian Christrup Kjeldsen, Franziska Felder, Sharon Bessell, Anna Gupta, Brid Featherstone, Paolo Graziano, Susan C Seifert, Mark Stern, Ann Mitchell, Severine Deneulin, Emilio J. Morales-Fernandez, Guillermo Bornemann-Martínez, Indira Mahendravada, Paola Ballon, Elise Klein, Reiko Gotoh ...
    How can unjust societies be overcome with a better distribution of opportunities to flourish? How can human development be revitalised in countries where social welfare is being questioned? In short, how can human development be fostered in practice? These are some of the important questions asked in this volume through analysis of existing policies and conceptualisations of coherent and ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

  • Working Ethically in Child Protection

    by Bob Lonne, Maria Harries, Brid Featherstone, Mel Gray ...
    In their day-to-day practice, social work and human services practitioners frequently find themselves in confusing ethical quandaries, trying to balance the numerous competing interests of protecting children from harm and promoting family and community capacity. This book explores the ethical issues surrounding child protection interventions and offers a process-oriented approach to ethical ... Read more

    $78.99 USD

  • What Is the Future of Social Work?

    A handbook for positive action

    by Peter Dowd, Chris Jones, John Harris, Gurnam Singh, Peter Beresford, Jan Walmsley, Iain Ferguson, Mark Lymbery, Brid Featherstone ...
    Social work is under unprecedented pressure as a result of funding cuts, political interventions, marketisation and welfare transformations which, combined, are dramatically reshaping the relationship between individuals and the welfare state.A wide range of distinguished academics provide a comprehensive analysis of the evolving challenges facing contemporary social work, reflecting on both the ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Contemporary Child Care Policy and Practice

    by Barbara Fawcett, Brid Featherstone, Jim Goddard ...
    This important text will provide a critical analysis of contemporary developments in child care policy under New Labour and the resulting policy and practice implications. The authors will draw on sociological debates, the growing children's rights literature and wider developments within social policy in order to provide a thorough and balanced guide to contemporary developments in this rapidly ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Re-imagining Child Protection

    Towards Humane Social Work with Families

    by Brid Featherstone, Susan White, Kate Morris ...
    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 ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Practice and Research in Social Work

    Postmodern Feminist Perspectives

    Edited by Barbara Fawcett, Brid Featherstone, Jan Fook, Amy Rossiter ...
    Although postmodernist theory has been related to and explored in sociology and social policy, this book is amongst the first to apply the theories to social work, and relate them to current debates. Contributors come from the UK, Australia, South Africa and Canada and many have professional experience as social workers. They appraise the key issues in the contested field of postmodernism and ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Mothering and Ambivalence

    Edited by Brid Featherstone, Wendy Hollway ...
    Children's rights, lone motherhood and the breakdown of families are all issues at the forefront of current social debate in the West, with little agreement on what constitutes good parenting, or how the needs of both mother and child are best met. The feminist contribution to this debate is particularly important in keeping in view the diverse identities of all those who provide mothering. The ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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    This fourth edition is inspiring reading for prospective, trainee and new teachers, tutors and mentors, working with young people. ... Read more

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