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Tables of Contents for Remaking Social Work With Children and Families
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgements
xi
 
List of abbreviations
xiii
 
Introduction: thinking critically about social work with children and families in the early twenty-first century
1
14
The fluidity and ambiguity of `social work'
3
2
Reviewing the radical critique(s)
5
1
`No space of innocence'? Governmentality and social work
6
2
The approach adopted in the book
8
1
`Dolphins' and `sharks': the critical ethic underpinning the book
9
2
The organisation of the book
11
4
PART I Major departures? Social work with children and families, 1990--1997
15
54
The `blueprint' for change: the `Looking after Children' system
19
19
The LAC system and parenting
21
5
The LAC system, `children' and `childhood'
26
1
Assessing children and young people in public care: Action and Assessment Records
27
8
The LAC system and its potential to assist in the profiling of potentially `troublesome' children
35
1
Conclusion
36
2
Examining the `product champions': LAC and its continuing role in the remaking of social work with children and families
38
13
The tyranny of the `objective' account: the LAC system and the disqualification of criticism
40
2
The alliance with the powerful: the proximity of political forces determining the content of the LAC materials
42
2
The failure to construct an alliance with those lacking political power: the marginalisation of `looked after' children
44
2
Social work's expanding `toolbox': the impact of AARs on the process of social work
46
2
`What works' and `outcomes'
48
2
Conclusion
50
1
`Working together' to protect children?
51
18
The emergence of `child protection'
53
3
Snapshots of joint endeavour during the Major period
56
5
Becoming a `child protection unit thing': the voluntary liquidation of a social work identity
61
5
Conclusion
66
3
PART II Things can only get better? New Labour and social work with children and families
69
80
Social work and the Third Way: the Assessment Framework, New Labour and more new `tools' for social work with children and families
75
18
Reading the map
78
3
New Labour, new Framework
81
2
Examining `inclusive practice'
83
2
The ecological approach to assessments
85
3
Back to the toolroom
88
3
Conclusion
91
2
An `eye-catching initiative': New Labour and child adoption
93
17
The wider cultural significance of child adoption
93
2
Earlier attempts at `reform'
95
1
Social dynamics and adoption
96
4
Blair takes control: remaking the social work approach to child adoption
100
1
Reviewing the review
101
2
New Labour, old adoption
103
5
Conclusion
108
2
Viewing the world through a monochrome lens: social work with children and families and the dominant approach to `race' and ethnicity
110
14
Social work in a `black' and `white' world
111
2
Social work and the `empty' white category
113
2
`Problem families' and the racialisation of Irish children and families
115
2
Recognising Irish specificity
117
3
`Race', ethnicity, asylum seekers and refugees
120
2
Conclusion
122
2
Social work with children and families in a world of `emergent new professionals'
124
15
Dealing with the `drop-out' generation
125
1
The `emergent new professional': the personal adviser
126
2
Inspiration, exhortation and compulsion
128
2
Making connections
130
2
Connexions, surveillance and strategies of virtual control
132
3
`Social work -- it's all about people': Connexions and the social work recruitment crisis
135
2
Conclusion
137
2
Conclusion
139
10
New structures and new professions
139
1
Direction from the centre
140
1
It's in the stars: targets and social work in a `performative society'
141
1
Looking forwards, looking backwards: complex `modernisation'
142
2
New Labour, the new degree and `practical' social work
144
1
Social work and human rights in a `surveillance society'
145
4
Notes
149
7
Bibliography
156
35
Index
191