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New Directions in Children’s Welfare: Professionals, Policy and Practice

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The introductory chapter starts with a reflection from the author’s personal experience of social work practice and working with a family where the children are neglected and on the child protection register as a result. A strong case is made for reflective writing and practice in which the author situates herself within her memory of a poor northern working-class childhood. The case is made against essentialism and pathologising individuals who are suffering poverty and social inequality. The chapter then introduces the rest of the chapters in the book.

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  1. Carnegie School of Education, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, UK

    Sharon Pinkney

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Pinkney, S. (2018). New Directions in Children’s Welfare: Professionals, Policy and Practice. In: New Directions in Children’s Welfare. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54539-8_1

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