Childhood:Services and Provision for Children

Description

Features

Key features of the text:

• Provides a critical framework which establishes the debates, discussions and dilemmas across children’s provision and services.
• Offers a multi-disciplinary perspective, exploring amongst others, social, educational, legal, health and political issues.
• Includes a range of in-depth cases in Part 3 of the text, exemplifying the real life impact of provision and services for children.
• Part 4 of the text provides a practical and accessible resource for those studying childhood, including guidance on research and study skills.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction                                                                      Pat Tomlinson

Part I Debates, Discussions, Dilemmas: the Critical Framework

Chapter 2 Children’s Rights and Realities.                                    Sue Welch

Chapter 3The Politics of Childhood                                                Pat Tomlinson

Chapter 4The Social Divisions of Childhood                                Dorothy Moss

Chapter 5 Pictures of Children                                                        Phil Jones

Part II Service, provision and policy

Chapter 6 Education: service or system?                                     Sue Welch

Chapter 7 Youth services and provision                                         Marian Charlton

Chapter 8 Provision for Child Health.                                             Ruth Cross

Chapter 9 Children who Offend                                                      Dorothy Moss

Chapter 10 Safeguarding children.                                                 Gary Walker

Chapter 11 Day care Services for Children.                                  Christine Hines

Chapter 12 Services to children’s play                                           Fraser Brown

Chapter 13 Children’s experience of Community

        Regeneration                                                                 Jane Kettle

Part III Services in action: Case Studies

Chapter 14 The Swings and Roundabouts of Community Development                                                                                                                                   Ros Chiosso

Chapter 15 A multi-agency approach to raising the educational attainment of looked

                        after children: Mind the Gap                         Gary Walker

Chapter 16 The Anna Rebecca Gray Interviews               Anna Gray

Chapter 17    Educating Refugee Children, A Class Teacher’s

Perspective: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Events. 

                                                                                                            Yinka Olusoga

Chapter 18A case study of an adventure playground: The Venture

                                                                                                            Fraser Brown

Part IV Conclusion: Pulling the Threads together and Furthering Understanding

Chapter 19 Searching and Researching Childhood: making full use of Libraries

GeorginaSpencer

Chapter 20Reading Between the Chapters                                 Phil Jones

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• Are contemporary services working for children?
• How is service provision seen from a children’s rights perspective?
• How are children’s views taken into account in relations to services?

Education, Health, Housing, Social Care, Play: services have a fundamental impact on the lives of all children.

Childhood: Services and Provision for Children provides an important and timely contribution to the field of Childhood and Youth Studies. This cutting-edge text brings together, within a critical framework, an understanding and discussion of a broad range of services, ideas, themes, policy and practice and debates the impact of them on children’s lives.

The text takes a truly multi-disciplinary perspective, reflecting the wide-ranging experience and backgrounds of the authors and contributors. The wealth of real case study material and reflective activities within each chapter helps develop the evaluative tools and critical skills essential for an understanding of the complex social, political and environmental issues surrounding childhood today.

Key features of the text:

• Provides a critical framework which establishes the debates, discussions and dilemmas across children’s provision and services.
• Offers a multi-disciplinary perspective, exploring amongst others, social, educational, legal, health and political issues.
• Includes a range of in-depth cases in Part 3 of the text, exemplifying the real life impact of provision and services for children.
• Part 4 of the text provides a practical and accessible resource for those studying childhood, including guidance on research and study skills.