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Roy Parker - Change and Continuity in Children's Services, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

Change and Continuity in Children's Services

Av Roy Parker

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Beskrivning
This collection of 12 new and revised essays on child care and children’s services, written by leading child welfare historian Roy Parker, draws on his lifetime of research in this area. By exploring various topics these essays explain significant political, economic, legal and ideological aspects of this history from the mid-1850s. This unique and lasting review of child care services allows readers to understand how the services for some of society’s most vulnerable children have become what they are, how well they have met and now meet the needs of those children.The collection provides a high-quality, historical reference resource that will inform and capture the interest of social work and social policy students as well as social and legal historians, political scientists and those involved in administration and government, struggling with the issues of the day.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2015-04-29
  • Mått: 156 x 234 x 13 mm
  • Vikt: 502 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 224
  • Förlag: Bristol University Press
  • ISBN: 9781447322221
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Roy Parker (d. 2017) was professor emeritus of social policy at the University of Bristol. Formerly he taught at the LSE. Before his academic career he worked as a child care officer and in residential care.

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"This is an incisive, scholarly, and elegantly written book, relevant to the future as to the past. I know no one else who could have written it." Ian Sinclair, University of York "In this unique historical overview, Roy Parker brings life-long scholarship to an analysis of the changing problems facing disadvantaged children in Britain. Continuities and discontinuities, conflicts and resolutions are carefully considered in this exceptionally thoughtful and fascinating compendium." Roger Bullock, Emeritus Professor of Child Welfare Research, University of Bristol, Former Director, Dartington Social Research Unit

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