Descript |
1 online resource (viii, 311 pages) |
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online resource cr |
Edition |
Rev. 2nd ed. / consultant editor, Jo Campling. |
Note |
"A BASW/Policy Press title"--Cover |
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Previous edition published as: Social policy, social welfare and scandal. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. |
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? |
ISBN |
9781847421326 (electronic bk.) |
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1847421326 (electronic bk.) |
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1861347464 (pbk.) |
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9781861347466 |
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