Re-Imagining Child Protection: Towards Humane Social Work with Families

by Kate Morris, Brid Featherstone, Susan White

Book Overview

Raising a number of critical questions, Brid Featherstone, Susan White and Kate Morris challenge a child protection culture that they see as becoming increasingly authoritarian. Calling for a family-minded practice of child protection, they argue that children should be understood as relational beings and that greater sensitivity should be paid to parents and the needs they have as a result of the burdens of childcare. They argue that current child...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1447308018
• ISBN13: 9781447308010
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.1"