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>

Contemporary preventative services, coalitions and the Conservatives

2020 ◽  
pp. 35-60
Author(s):  
Alison Body
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Voluntary Sector ◽  
Children's Services ◽  
Big Society ◽  
Children’S Services ◽  
Preventative Services

In chapter 2 we explore contemporary children’s services, and how the persuasive logic of prevention has been adopted in more modern service delivery and the role of the voluntary sector in providing these services. Focusing specifically on the early 2010s, we map the shift from the Conservative flagship project of the Big Society, to the renewed localism project of the Civil Society Strategy. We draw out the links between the societal hardening in focus, shifting from universal to targeting of preventative services, and discuss the role of the voluntary sector in delivery of these services.

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.

Child Protection or Family Support — Directions in Family Welfare for the 80's

1987 ◽  
Vol 11 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 16-19
Author(s):  
Phillip A. Swain
Keyword(s):  
Family Support ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Continuum Of Care ◽  
Family Welfare ◽  
Children's Services ◽  
The Family ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Children’S Services ◽  
The Continuum

Child Protection and Family Support. These are two aspects of our work in family and children's services that have been much discussed over recent years. Can you protect a child whilst at the same time purport to support the family? Should the two functions be organisationally and structurally separated? Are they really just parts of the continuum of care and commitment which we all share in families and children? These and other similar questions have been frequently repeated during the first half of the 80's as we all searched for ways to meet the obvious deficiencies in the networks of families and children's services that had been established. But as we look to the remainder of the 80's there a number of critical issues which are well indentified but which we have yet to really come to grips with.

Conclusion: the politics of children’s services reform

2020 ◽  
pp. 171-184
Author(s):  
Carl Purcell
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Interest Group ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Children's Services ◽  
Group Relations ◽  
Party Leaders ◽  
Local Service ◽  
Children’S Services ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Reform Needs

In this concluding chapter it is argued that the reform of children’s services over the past two decades has been a more politically driven process than is commonly recognised. Reflecting on the evidence presented in the book four key features of children’s services are identified. Firstly, the extent to which reforms have been influenced by apparent local service failings has been greatly exaggerated by ministers. Secondly, children’s services reform needs to be understood within the context of the broader economic and social policy priorities of party leaders and senior ministers. Thirdly, the ubiquity of structural reform to local children’s services reflects the activism of ministers and their need to demonstrate impact. Finally, the politicisation of policy-making in this area has been reflected in continual shifts in government-interest group relations, including the declining access and influence of children’s sector NGOs over recent years.

Assessing the impact and implications for social workers of an innovative children’s services programme aimed to support workforce reform and integrated working

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 81-90
Author(s):  
Nigel Malin ◽  
Jane Tunmore
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Family Support ◽  
Residential Care ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Child Poverty ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Children's Services ◽  
North East ◽  
Children’S Services ◽  
The Impact

This article reports findings from an independent audit and evaluation of an innovative children's services programme (CSP) funded 2009-2011 by twelve Local Authorities under the auspices of the North-East of England's Improvement & Efficiency Partnership (NEIEP) to manage improvements and efficiencies across the children's services sector focusing upon messages for social workers. The overall purpose of the CSP was to make demonstrable progress in tackling the challenges of child poverty by delivering high quality support to the growing number of children with social care/health needs through regional improvement. The key objectives of the CSP included supporting workforce reform and integrated working; development of personalised services; family support to reduce the need for residential care; and provision of tools to aid commissioners with needs analysis. The audit identified key outputs, for example, improvements to best practice on Whole Family approaches, safeguarding and leadership training evolved through a skills framework; and included a regional model of social work supervision training along with a provision of options to increase the range and quality of foster care placements. The evaluation considered actions arising from the above findings, including demonstrated improvements to inter-disciplinary working and pooling resources to produce better outcomes for families; setting up a data-base to improve the balance between fostering, residential care and family support; and creating opportunities for social workers to explore the practical implementation of using personal budgets.

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.

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