Delivering change for children

2020 ◽  
pp. 75-88
Author(s):  
Carl Purcell
Keyword(s):  
Early Intervention ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Young People ◽  
Social Behaviour ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Youth Services ◽  
Children's Services ◽  
School Autonomy ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Children’S Services

This chapter discusses the implementation of Labour’s ‘Change for Children’ programme following the passage of the Children Act 2004 during Blair’s final years as Prime Minister. Under the new structural arrangements every English local authority was required to merge education and children’s social care services to create a single children’s services department under the leadership of a Director of Children’s Services. However, it is argued that tensions between No 10 and the Treasury over social policy and public service reform in this period served to constrain the implementation of the new arrangements. Firstly, Blair’s prioritisation of greater school autonomy pulled against the focus on the integration of children’s services and accountability to children’s services and children’s trusts. Secondly, Blair’s perspective on youth services and the prioritisation of policies to tackle crime and anti-social behaviour, ran counter to the principle of early intervention and the provision of positive activities for young people under the ECM framework.

Schools reform and early intervention

2020 ◽  
pp. 127-148
Author(s):  
Carl Purcell
Keyword(s):  
Early Intervention ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Youth Services ◽  
Children's Services ◽  
Early Intervention Services ◽  
Children’S Services ◽  
Intervention Services ◽  
Spending Cuts ◽  
Children’S Centres

This chapter and the next consider the development of children’s services policy since 2010, including key changes introduced by the Conservative Secretary of State Michael Gove. From the outset it was clear that schools reform would be the overriding priority for the renamed ‘Department for Education’. Moreover, under Gove’s Academies and Free Schools programme the broad emphasis on child well-being and the integration of children’s services, under Labour’s ECM framework, was largely abandoned as schools were afforded greater autonomy from local authority children’s services. Furthermore, the prioritisation of schools’ reform meant that services such as children’s centres and youth services bore the brunt of spending cuts, notwithstanding the Prime Minister David Cameron’s proclaimed commitment to the refocusing of early intervention services. In this context, the DfE distanced itself from the restructuring and hollowing-out of early intervention services at the local level, and NGOs campaigning in this area were largely ignored.

In whose best interests?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Val Gillies ◽  
Rosalind Edwards ◽  
Nicola Horsley
Keyword(s):  
Early Intervention ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Best Interests ◽  
Social Investment ◽  
Children's Services ◽  
Education Services ◽  
Stakeholder Groups ◽  
Economic Rationale ◽  
Children’S Services

This chapter analyses the intricate network of interests and their agendas that characterise social policy provision generally, focusing down on social investment in children's services and the early intervention field. In particular, the chapter looks at three key stakeholder groups with interests in early intervention: business, politicians and professionals, and their interlinked alliances and partnerships. It examines how corporate money, power, and influence have pervaded various children's services, from child protection work to family and early intervention initiatives to education services. This occurs through ‘philanthrocapitalism’ — an amalgam of an economic rationale of early intervention coupled with moral notions of social philanthropy.

Staff Shortages in Children's Services: Challenging taken-for-granted discourses

2005 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 40-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Sumsion
Keyword(s):  
Day Care ◽  
Children's Services ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Long Day ◽  
Children’S Services ◽  
Practical Tool

This article is concerned with the continuing staff shortages in Australian long day care services. To expand possibilities for addressing this ongoing problem, the article advocates the use of discourse as a theoretical and practical tool for reframing discussions about staff shortages. Drawing on discourses of crisis and professionalism as examples, it suggests refocusing conversations and action around discourses of opportunity and critical professionalism, rather than the gendered professionalism traditionally associated with children's services.

What Can We Learn from ‘Innovative’ Child Care Services? Children's Services Purposes and Practices in Australia's Northern Territory

2007 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 265-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lyn Fasoli ◽  
Bonita Moss
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Northern Territory ◽  
Children's Services ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Western Values ◽  
Children’S Services ◽  
Child Care Services ◽  
Social Agendas ◽  
Government Initiative

This article explores the diversity of services designed for young children currently operating in Australia in remote Northern Territory (NT) Indigenous communities as a provocation for the renewal and revitalisation of mainstream (typical Australian conventional, Western values oriented and urban-based) child care services. Australian society has accepted a standardised model of child care and conceptualised it as a service designed primarily for parents who work. It has become remarkably uniform in look, nature and purpose, regardless of where it is located. The article refers specifically to ‘Innovative’ Indigenous Children's Services (the term ‘Innovative’ refers to a federally funded government initiative called the ‘Innovative Child Care Scheme’, an initiative stemming from the 1992–96 National Child Care Strategy) as a new kind of children's space in the child care landscape. The authors reflect on the findings of recent research which explored what could be learned from remotely located Indigenous children's services staff, particularly in relation to the important questions the research raised for the social agendas and public policies that underpin development and theory currently shaping mainstream centre-based long day care programs.

scholarly journals A Virtual Vertical File: How Librarians Utilize Pinterest

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 34
Author(s):  
Kate Eckert
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Young People ◽  
Oral History ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Children's Services ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Virtual Tools ◽  
Children’S Services ◽  
Children's Librarians

Past presidents of ALSC—some of whom have been interviewed recently by ALSC’s Oral History Committee—probably would not be surprised at how much children’s services have changed since the 1940s, when ALA formed a Division for Children and Young People (a precursor name to ALSC).  But what may surprise many is how computers and the Internet have become omnipresent virtual tools to help children’s librarians with everything from selection to services. Social media—and all its iterations and segments—is a huge part of who librarians are and can be today. Here’s a brief, non-scientific look at how some of our colleagues use one of these tools, Pinterest.

Putting children's services in their place: A call for universal children's services to prevent child abuse and neglect in Australia

2003 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gail Winkworth
Keyword(s):  
Child Abuse ◽  
Early Intervention ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Child Abuse And Neglect ◽  
Intervention Strategy ◽  
State Governments ◽  
Children's Services ◽  
Abuse And Neglect ◽  
Childhood Intervention ◽  
Children’S Services

This paper discusses the need for a national early childhood intervention policy in Australia, including a universal approach to children's services as a platform for the prevention of child abuse and neglect, supporting families and enriching the lives of all children.It considers the literature on early intervention, including the theoretical and research base of successful programs and the link between early intervention and the prevention of child abuse and neglect. It examines the way the child welfare and children's services sectors have grown and the imperative at the beginning of the 21st century for a closer alignment of services.The United Kingdom's ‘Sure Start’ early intervention strategy is considered in so far as it attempts to develop a more comprehensive approach to child welfare by developing programs which are based on the research. Finally the paper asserts that recent strategies introduced by Federal and State Governments to promote childhood health and wellbeing are positive first steps, but need to go further to seriously address increasing numbers of children reported as suffering harm through abuse and/or neglect.

scholarly journals Outputs Reviewed: Neo-Liberalism

2015 ◽  
pp. 22
Author(s):  
North East Third Sector Research Group
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Family Support ◽  
Community Organizations ◽  
Voluntary Organizations ◽  
Welfare To Work ◽  
Children's Services ◽  
Big Society ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Children’S Services ◽  
Society Project

<p>Churchill, H. (2013). Retrenchment and restructuring: family support and children's services reform under the coalition. <em>Journal of Children's Services</em>, 8()3, 209-222</p><p>Jackson Rodger, J. (2013). “New capitalism”, colonisation and the neo-philanthropic turn in social policy: Applying Luhmann's systems theory to the Big Society project. <em>International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy</em>, 33(11/12), 725-741.</p><p>Kim, S. (2013). Voluntary Organizations as New Street-level Bureaucrats: Frontline Struggles of Community Organizations against Bureaucratization in a South Korean Welfare-to-Work Partnership. <em>Social Policy &amp; Administration</em>, 47(5), 565-585.</p>

scholarly journals A Permanent and Significant Contribution: The Life of May Hill Arbuthnot

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Sharon McQueen
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Youth Services ◽  
Children's Services ◽  
Lecture Series ◽  
Biographical Dictionary ◽  
Children’S Services

May Hill Arbuthnot (1884–1969) was not a children’s librarian, nor did she teach children’s librarianship. She was not a scholar of children’s librarianship. How, then, did she come to have an entry in the biographical dictionary Pioneers and Leaders in Library Services to Youth among the pantheon of youth services legends that included Anne Carroll Moore, Augusta Baker, Mildred Batchelder, and Charlemae Rollins? Why did American Libraries include her among one hundred of the most important leaders of librarianship in the twentieth century? And why did ALA’s Children’s Services Division (now ALSC) agree to administer a lecture series named in Arbuthnot’s honor?

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