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Scandal, social policy, and social welfare / Ian Butler and Mark Drakeford.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Bristol, UK : Policy Press, 2005.Edition: Rev. 2nd ed. / consultant editor, Jo CamplingDescription: 1 online resource (viii, 311 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781847421326
  • 1847421326
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Scandal, social policy, and social welfare.DDC classification:
  • 361.610941 22
LOC classification:
  • HV245 .B94 2005eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Scandal -- 'Gothic nightmare': madness and public policy from the eighteenth century -- 'The corruption of care': the Ely Hospital Inquiry 1969 -- 'Household happiness, gracious children': children, welfare and public policy, 1840-1970 -- The story of Cinderella: the report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Care and Supervision Provided in Relation to Maria Colwell 1974 -- 'Mere oblivion': the fate of the institution and the advent of community care -- 'Carnage in the community': the Christopher Clunis Inquiry 1993 -- 'An ambience of uneasiness': the residential care of children, 1834-1990 -- 'A narrow, punitive and harshly restrictive experience': the Pindown experience and the protection of children. The Report of the Staffordshire Child Care Inquiry 1991 -- Scandal, welfare and public policy -- The final chapter?
Summary: This book, by examining the landmark scandals of the post-war period, including more recent ones, such as the Victoria Climbie Inquiry, reveals how scandals are generated, to what purposes they are used and whose interests they are made to serve.
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"A BASW/Policy Press title"--Cover

Previous edition published as: Social policy, social welfare and scandal. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Scandal -- 'Gothic nightmare': madness and public policy from the eighteenth century -- 'The corruption of care': the Ely Hospital Inquiry 1969 -- 'Household happiness, gracious children': children, welfare and public policy, 1840-1970 -- The story of Cinderella: the report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Care and Supervision Provided in Relation to Maria Colwell 1974 -- 'Mere oblivion': the fate of the institution and the advent of community care -- 'Carnage in the community': the Christopher Clunis Inquiry 1993 -- 'An ambience of uneasiness': the residential care of children, 1834-1990 -- 'A narrow, punitive and harshly restrictive experience': the Pindown experience and the protection of children. The Report of the Staffordshire Child Care Inquiry 1991 -- Scandal, welfare and public policy -- The final chapter?

Print version record.

This book, by examining the landmark scandals of the post-war period, including more recent ones, such as the Victoria Climbie Inquiry, reveals how scandals are generated, to what purposes they are used and whose interests they are made to serve.

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