Governing the Family: Child Care, Child Protection and the State

by Nigel Parton

Drawing on original research this book provides a challenging and instructive analysis of the nature of the heated and often contradicting arguments of recent years about how to reform the child care system, and the emergence of a central concern with child protection.

It provides a unique insight into the political influences on the 1989 Children Act and the issues it attempted to address, the bargains that were struck in the process of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333541227
• ISBN13: 9780333541227
• Release Date: July 1991
• Publisher: MacMillan
• Length: 263 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"