The Contemporary Politics of Child Protection: Part Two (The BASPCAN Founders lecture 2015)

Parton, Nigel (2016) The Contemporary Politics of Child Protection: Part Two (The BASPCAN Founders lecture 2015). Child Abuse Review, 25 (1). pp. 9-16. ISSN 0952-9136

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Abstract

This paper is based on the Founders lecture of the same title presented at the BASPCAN Congress ‘New Directions in Child Protection and Well-being’ in April 2015 in Edinburgh. In a very schematic way it attempts to critically review changes in child protection policies in the UK since the first BASPCAN Congress in 1991. It argues that while there are similarities there are also important differences. The nature of the problems to be addressed has become both broader and more complex and this is reflected in developments in policy and practice. At the same time the challenges for child protection have become increasingly politicised such that the narrative of professional and system failure has become more dominant and pervasive. This has the effect of deflecting political and policy attention from the size and nature of the social problems to be addressed. The paper concludes by considering the most recent developments and their possible impact including the Statutory Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse chaired by Justice Lowell Goddard.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman R Medicine > RJ Pediatrics > RJ101 Child Health. Child health services
Schools:	School of Human and Health Sciences School of Human and Health Sciences > Centre for Applied Childhood, Youth and Family Research
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Depositing User:	Sara Taylor
Date Deposited:	15 Oct 2015 15:23
Last Modified:	08 Dec 2016 19:32
URI:	http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/26144

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