Residential child care is a crucial, though relatively neglected
area of social work. And yet, revelations of abuse and questions of
effectiveness have led to increasingly regulatory and procedural
approaches to practice and heightened political and professional
scrutiny. This book provides a broad and critical look at the ideas
and policy developments that have shaped the direction of the
sector. The book sets present-day policy and practice within
historical, policy and organisational context. The author applies a
critical gaze to attempts to improve practice through regulation
and, fundamentally, challenges how residential child care is
conceptualised. He argues that it needs to move beyond dominant
discourses of protection, rights and outcomes to embrace those of
care and upbringing. The importance of the personal relationship in
helping children to grow and develop is highlighted. Other
traditions of practice such as the European concept of social
pedagogy are also explored to more accurately reflect the task of
residential child care. The book will be of interest to
practitioners in residential child care, social workers and
students on social work and social care courses. It should be
required reading for social work managers and will also be of
interest to policy makers and students of social policy, education
and childhood studies.
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