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Front Cover\nThe Politics of Children\'s Services Reform: Re-examining Two Decades of Policy Change\nCopyright information\nDedication\nTable of contents\nList of abbreviations\nAcknowledgments\nForeword\nIntroduction\n1 What drives children’s services reform?\n Introduction\n Child abuse inquiries and scandals\n Children’s services and neoliberalism\n The case for re- examining children’s services reform\n Understanding the policymaking process\n Groups and networks\n Whitehall\n Politicised policymaking\n The research design and process\nPart I Children’s services reform under the Labour government (1997–2010)\n 2 The Labour leadership and children’s policy\n Labour economic and social policy\n The accommodation view\n The revisionist view\n The composite view\n The children’s policy priorities of the Labour leaders\n Blair and education reform\n Blair and ‘problem’ young people\n Brown and child poverty\n The Treasury and Whitehall\n The departmental Spending Review process\n The relationship with the children’s charities\n Sure Start\n Discussion\n 3 Structural reform and the Victoria Climbié inquiry\n Introduction\n The role of local authority social services departments\n The report of the Seebohm Committee\n Section 17 of the Children Act 1989\n Labour’s Modernising Social Services White Paper\n Boateng’s case for reform\n The Victoria Climbié inquiry\n Background\n Accountability for child safeguarding\n Milburn’s response to the inquiry\n Discussion\n 4 Every Child Matters and the Children Act 2004\n Introduction\n The origins of the ECM Green Paper\n The five outcomes framework\n Children’s social care services and social work under ECM\n Children’s services and children’s trusts\n The Children’s Inter-Agency Group and the response to ECM\n Discussion\n 5 Delivering change for children\n Introduction\n The Change for Children programme\n Children’s services departments and the DCS role\n Progressive universalism and the continued neglect of social work\n Schools reform\n The role of schools under ECM\n Bureaucratic resistance\n School autonomy\n ‘Problem’ young people\n Discussion\n 6 The Children’s Plan, ‘Broken Britain’ and Baby P\n Introduction\n The Children’s Plan\n Revisiting the role of schools\n Youth policy\n The Conservative Party and ‘Broken Britain’\n The Conservative Party Commission on Social Workers\n Baby P and children’s policy\n Labour’s policy response\n Conservative pressure\n Defending progressive universalism\n Discussion\nPart II Children’s services reform under the Coalition and Conservative governments (2010–19)\n 7 The priorities of the Coalition and Conservative government leaders\n Introduction\n Deficit reduction\n Public service reform\n Social policy under Cameron and Clegg\n Cameron and social justice\n Clegg and social mobility\n Welfare reform and the Treasury\n After the referendum\n Discussion\n 8 Schools reform and early intervention\n Introduction\n The prioritisation of schools reform\n Academies, free schools and children’s services\n Early intervention policy\n Early intervention funding\n Children’s centres\n Youth services\n NGOs and early intervention policy\n Trying to stay relevant\n Shouting from the sidelines\n 9 The reform of child and family social work\n Introduction\n Professional renewal\n The Munro Review\n A change of narrative\n Reshaping social work: training, regulation and learning\n Frontline\n The Knowledge and Skills Statement and social worker accreditation\n Social work regulation\n A national learning infrastructure\n ‘Innovation’ and further structural reform\n Outsourcing children’s social care services\n Article 39 and the Children and Social Work Bill\n A profession still struggling to be heard?\n Conclusion: the politics of children’s services reform\n Introduction\n The national politics of local service failure\n The priorities of party leaders and ministers\n The ubiquity of structural reform\n The role of NGOs\n Concluding remarks\nAppendix: Chronology of key reports\n Labour government (1997–2010)\n Coalition and Conservative governments (2010–19)\nReferences\nIndex\nBack Cover