| Description |
1 online resource (x, 203 pages) |
| Contents |
Front Cover -- A Political History of Child Portection: Lessons for Reform from Aotearoa New Zealand -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Glossary of Māori words -- About the author -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Power structures and problem definition -- Personal dimensions -- Political economy -- Re-politicising child protection -- Tensions and intersections -- Correlation and causation -- Modernisation and child protection -- Class analysis revisited -- A socialist perspective -- Class, race, gender and history -- Conflict and change -- The liberal inheritance |
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2 Origins of child protection in Aotearoa -- Sanitation -- Patterns and connections -- The liberal bones of welfare -- Middle-class benevolence -- Science and contamination -- Biopolitics -- Going native -- The spirit of colonial welfare -- Charitable inheritance -- Child welfare and social work: tracing lines of descent -- Care services -- Echoes of class and gendered discipline -- 3 Post-war child welfare -- Ideological boundaries -- The welfare state era -- Tensions and contradictions -- Professional identity -- State social work and child welfare -- The fifth social service |
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Child and family bureaucracy -- Welfare visions and realities -- Changing times -- Benign authoritarianism -- A building crisis of faith -- Changing lenses: Indigenous narratives -- Maori and the post-war state -- Class, colonisation and racial inequality -- Demography, inequality and state care -- Prison disproportionality -- Racism and institutional abuse -- Institutional responses -- Rising Maori voices -- 4 The 1980s: a storm builds and breaks -- The child protection imperative -- The medico-professional wave -- Slow brewing conflict -- Care planning -- Matua Whangai |
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Internal dissent and practice innovation -- Productive ambiguity -- Women against racism -- PtAT (day break) -- Legislative reform -- Legislation for whanau empowerment -- 5 Revolution from above: the neoliberal turn -- The roller coaster ride begins -- Turning the political screw -- The business of state social work -- Devolution reframed -- Forks in the new path -- Empowerment and efficiency -- Practice on the ground -- Professional guidance -- Political and organisational distortion -- A systemic problem -- Child protection revisited -- Shifting policy responses |
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Biculturalism: lost in translation -- Iwi social services -- 6 Cycles of crisis and review -- Limits of the efficient production state -- Labour's social development agenda -- The Brown review and new directions -- Strategic responses to risk and overload -- Moral panic and populist politics -- Ontological insecurity: Maori mothers and Pakeha identity -- Green and White Papers -- Vulnerable children -- Social investment -- 'More effective social services' (NZPC, 2015) -- Targeting the expensive and irresponsible -- Quadrant D and future welfare liability -- Whanau Ora and commissioning |
| Summary |
Exploring the current and historical tensions between liberal capitalism and indigenous models of family life, Ian Kelvin Hyslop argues for a new model of child protection in Aotearoa New Zealand and other parts of the Anglophone world |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 24, 2022) |
| Subject |
Child welfare -- New Zealand
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work.
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Politics and government
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Child welfare
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| SUBJECT |
New Zealand -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091511
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| Subject |
New Zealand
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781447353195 |
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1447353196 |
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9781447353201 |
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144735320X |
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