Full Description
Exploring the current and historical tensions between liberal capitalism and indigenous models of family life, Ian Kelvin Hyslop argues for a new model of child protection in Aotearoa New Zealand and other parts of the Anglophone world.
He puts forward the case that child safety can only be sustainably advanced by policy initiatives which promote social and economic equality and from practice which takes meaningful account of the complex relationship between economic circumstances and the lived realities of service users.
Contents
Power structures and problem definition;
Origins of child protection in Aotearoa;
Post-war child welfare;
The 1980s: a storm builds and breaks;
Revolution from above: the neoliberal turn;
Cycles of crisis and review;
Building a new paradigm
