Full Description
Drawing on unique access to prominent policy makers including ministers, senior civil servants, local authority directors, and the leaders of children's sector NGOs, Purcell re-examines two decades of children's services reform under both Labour and Conservative-led governments.
He closely examines the origins of Labour's Every Child Matters programme, the Munro review and more recent Conservative reforms affecting child and family social workers to reassess the impact of high profile child abuse cases, including Victoria Climbié and Baby P, and reveal the party political drivers of successive reform.
Contents
Foreword by Sir Paul Ennals
Introduction;
Chapter 1 - What Drives Children's Services Reform?;
Children's Services Reform under the Labour Government (1997-2010);
Chapter 2 - The Labour Leadership and Children's Policy;
Chapter 3 - Structural Reform and the Victoria Climbié Inquiry;
Chapter 4- Every Child Matters and the Children Act 2004;
Chapter 5- Delivering Change for Children;
Chapter 6- The Children's Plan, Broken Britain and Baby P;
Children's Services Reform under the Coalition and Conservative Governments (2010-2019);
Chapter 7 - The Priorities of the Coalition and Conservative Government Leaders;
Chapter 8 - Schools' Reform and Early Intervention;
Chapter 9 - The Reform of Child and Family Social Work;
Conclusion: The Politics of Children's Services Reform;
Appendix: Chronology of Key Reports;
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