Front cover -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of main abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- Spinning the 'transformation': New Labour's way with words -- Children's Services and 'modern' times -- Chapter map -- Reflection and talk box 1 -- 2 Theorizing neoliberal 'transformation' -- Defining neoliberalism -- Remaking the state -- Actually existing neoliberalism -- Accumulation by dispossession -- Precariousness and flexibility -- Lockdown -- The 'double shuffle': doing neoliberalism the New Labour way -- Embedding neoliberalism: Giddens and the 'Third Way' -- Winning 'hearts and minds' -- Conclusion -- Reflection and talk box 2 -- 3 The 'transformational reform agenda': the Change for Children programme -- Launching the 'transformational reform agenda' -- The tripartite system to facilitate better 'outcomes' -- 'Imagine you are in a foreign country' -- The 'common' vision -- Being 'modern' and being American -- Looking to the 'symbolic Mecca'? -- Venturing to Vermont -- Prevention and 'prevention science' -- Conclusion -- Reflection and talk box 3 -- 4 Neoliberal globalism, 'race' and place: reviewing the Laming Report on the death of Victoria Climbié -- 'Working with diversity': Laming, 'race' and racism -- 'I do not do political correctness': Laming on 'race' -- A world shook up: neoliberal globalism and the Victoria Climbié tragedy -- Responding to the 'out of place' -- Suspicion and deterrence: the 'absent presence' in Laming's Report -- 'Flexibility' in action: the temporary, transient, transnational workforce -- Conclusion -- Reflection and talk box 4 -- 5 'Transformation', technology and surveillance -- The e-government agenda: technologizing and marketizing the public sector -- The 'surveillance state' -- Surveillance today -- Examining ContactPoint (CPd).

The 'e-turn' and the remaking of practitioners' temporal frameworks -- Conclusion -- Reflection and talk box 5 -- 6 Making 'anti-social behaviour': ASBO politics -- 'Anti-social behaviour': putting it into words -- Tracking 'anti-social behaviour' -- Creating 'respect' and 'responsibility' -- 'Radical' and 'modern' approaches to 'chaotic families' -- 'Been there': the ASBO politics of Blunkett -- Excavating the 'problem family' in an age of 'terrorism' and 'insecurity': the ASBO politics of Blair -- Conclusion -- Reflection and talk box 6 -- 7 'Problem families' and 'sinbin' solutions -- The state, 'social problems' and the backward glance -- Promoting the 'empowerment' of families: the Dundee Families Project -- Getting a 'grip' on the 'anti-social family': examining the 'pioneers' -- Reporting the 'transformation' of Children's Services: researchers and the 'lives of others' -- Conclusion -- Reflection and talk box 7 -- 8 Making 'happier' children and more 'fulfilled' social workers? Privatizing social work services for 'looked after' children -- 'Transforming' the lives of children and young people in care? -- Examining the potential for SWP -- SWP: the Grand vision -- Tilting the balance: the 'war of position' against local authority social work -- Examining the SWP working group -- The private sector rescuing a 'failing' care system? -- Parents and young people: examining the excluding and filtering processes -- Conclusion -- Reflection and talk box 8 -- 9 Conclusion -- Future(s) -- Architects of 'transformation' -- Lifting the heart: ('creative') social work is elsewhere -- 'Baby P' -- Another 'transformation' is possible -- Appendix A -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Back cover.

Provides an accessible overview of the 'transformation' of Children's Services in England. This book argues that the many changes which have taken place within, and beyond, Children's Services are related to the politics of Neoliberalism which, it is maintained, lie at the core of the Change for Children programme.

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