In this, the first sociology book to consider the important issue of how children identify with place and nation, the authors use original research and international case studies to explore this topic in depth. The book is rooted in original qualitative research the authors conducted with a diverse sample of children (aged eight to eleven) across Wales, but this data is also located in the context of existing international research on place identity. The book features analysis of lively exchanges between children on their local, national and global identities, politics, language and race. It engages with important social and political questions such as whether cultural distinctiveness can be preserved in a context of globalization, whether we are destined to passively receive dominant representations of the nation or can creatively construct our own versions; and whether national identities are necessarily exclusive. Most importantly, the book focuses on what local and national identities mean to children in an era of cultural and economic globalization. Including material on racialization, language, politics, class and gender, Children, Place and Identity will be a valuable resource to students and researchers of childhood studies and the sociology of childhood.

Children, Place and Identity: Nation and Locality in Middle Childhood

Politics & Social Sciences

Davies, Andrew

Scourfield, Jonathan

Dicks, Bella

Drakeford, Mark

Social Sciences

Routledge

Social Policy and Privatisation (Longman Social Policy In Britain Series)

Privatisation and Social Policy follows this format while addressing one of the key issues of recent years, namely the covert but undeniable impact of growing privatisation on the development and implementation of social policy. As the text demonstrates, there is no area of policy which privatisation has not affected, resulting in the gradual transfer of responsibility from the public to the private sphere in areas such as education, housing, health, social security and social services.

Business & Money

Economics

This book considers how pre-trial services can help shape the future of probation practice when the fastest rising sector of the prison population is those awaiting trial or sentencing. 

Pre-Trial Services and the Future of Probation

Haines, Kevin

Cotton, Bev

Octigan, Mike

Foreign & International Law

University of Wales Press

Social Policy and Privatisation addresses one of the key issues of recent years, namely the covert but undeniable impact of growing privatisation on the development and implementation of social policy. As the text demonstrates, there is no area of policy which privatisation has not affected, resulting in the gradual transfer of responsibility from the public to the private sphere in areas such as education, housing, health, social security and social services.

Social Work on Trial: The Colwell Inquiry and the State of Welfare (BASW/Policy Press titles)

The public inquiry that followed the death of Maria Colwell in 1973 had profound implications for the developing profession and practice of social work in the UK. This book describes the politics, professional concerns, and public interest—both local and national— that surrounded the inquiry and its aftermath, and it shows how the concerns of this landmark child abuse case still have not found a satisfactory resolution today.

Butler, Ian

Policy Press

The results of research carried out in the UK, Holland and Spain, this study assesses the impact upon child welfare services of perceptions of stigma associated with such services by providers and consumers. Funded by the European Commission and conducted in Wales, the Netherlands and Catalonia, the research undertaken aimed to assess the success or otherwise of present policies with respect to providing services in a non-stigmatizing way. These areas have been deliberately chosen for the study because they allow for a series of important comparisons. The Netherlands belongs to the group of social democratic regimes, the UK to liberal welfare states and Catalonia emerges from a corporatist tradition. Also, during the 1980s, the three countries experienced contrasting economic policies which produced an impact upon those most likely to be users of child welfare services. In the conclusion of the study, it emerged that the UK had the most developed services, Spain had the least developed and the Netherlands remained in an intermediate position. The results of the investigation have been analyzed for each individual country and in comparison with each other, in order to gain an insight into the ways in which perceptions of stigma are shaped by the history, culture and pattern of service provision in different places. The aim of this study has been to assess the relationship between the perception of stigma and a series of personal and environmental variables. Once discovering the findings, the study aims to provide written and practical guidance for child welfare policy makers and practitioners with the regard to the provision of non-stigmatizing family support services.

Stigma and Social Welfare: An International Comparative Study (Welfare and Society)

Williams, Margaret

ROBERTS, SUSAN

Colton, M. J

Casas, Ferran

Scholte, Evert

Avebury

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