The Routledge Handbook of Global Child Welfare
In the context of the increasing global movement of people and a growing evidence base for differing outcomes in child welfare, The Routledge Handbook of Global Child Welfare provides a compelling account of child welfare, grounded in the latest theory, policy and practice. Drawing on eminent international expertise, the book offers a coherent and comprehensive overview of the policies, systems and practices that can deliver the best outcomes for children. It considers the challenges faced by children globally, and the difference families, services and professionals can make. This ambitious and far-reaching handbook is essential reading for everyone working to make the world a better and safer place for children.
Pat Dolan is joint founder and Director of the UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He holds the prestigious UNESCO Chair in Children, Youth and Civic Engagement, the first to be awarded in the Republic of Ireland.
Nick Frost is Professor of Social Work at Leeds Beckett University. A qualified and registered social worker, he has been an independent chair of two Local Safeguarding Children Boards in England. He has written widely in relation to child protection, children in care and family support.
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Names: Dolan, Patrick, editor. | Frost, Nick, 1953 editor.
Title: The Routledge handbook of global child welfare / edited by Patrick
Dolan & Nick Frost.
Other titles: Handbook of global child welfare
Description: 1 Edition. | New York : Routledge, 2017.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016027951| ISBN 9781138942752 (hardback) |
ISBN 9781315672960 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Child welfare. | Childrens rights. | Social policy. |
GlobalizationSocial aspects.
Classification: LCC HV713 .R687 2017 | DDC 362.7dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016027951
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Contents
David Berridge is Professor of Child and Family Welfare at the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol, UK. He was formerly Research Director at the National Childrens Bureau, Research Fellow at the Dartington Social Research Unit and Director of the Institute of Applied Social Research, University of Bedfordshire. His research specialises particularly in children in public care and living away from home, especially residential care and educational disadvantage.
Bernadine Brady is a lecturer in the School of Political Science and Sociology and has been a researcher in the Child and Family Research Centre (CFRC) since 2003. She is an experienced mixed-methods researcher, with particular expertise in relation to childrens policy and services. In recent years, Bernadine was lead researcher on evaluations of the Forige youth citizenship programme and the Big Brothers Big Sisters Programme in Ireland and has previously undertaken studies in relation to childrens participation, family welfare conferencing and young carers in the CFRC.
Mark Brennan is the UNESCO Chair for Rural Community, Leadership and Youth Development and Professor of Leadership and Community Development at Penn State University. His teaching, research, writing and programme development concentrates on the role of community and leadership development in the youth, community and rural development process. In this context, much of his work has focused on community action, youth development and social justice. He is co-founder of the Global Network of UNESCO Chairs on Children, Youth and Community. Mark has contributed articles to publications such as International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Journal of the World Universities Forum, Journal of the Community Development Society and Child and Family Social Work.
Hannah Clark is a doctoral candidate in Clinical Science at the University of Michigan. She studies the outcomes of exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV) among women and children, with an emphasis on cognition. She is particularly interested in the mediating role of executive functioning in the relation between IPV exposure and mental health outcomes.
Nuala Connolly is a postdoctoral researcher at the UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, School of Political Science and Sociology, NUI Galway. Nuala is experienced in multi-method and multi-themed research, including longitudinal evaluation and field-based action research at a European level. Nuala is an appointed member of the Council of Europe and European Commission Youth Partnership Pool of European Youth Researchers (PEYR). Nuala holds a BA, MA and PhD from UCD Ireland.
Gary Craig is Professor Emeritus of Social Justice at the Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation (WISE) at the University of Hull, and Honorary Professor at the University of York. He has been active in researching, writing and campaigning around issues of modern slavery for many years. He acknowledges the contribution of former colleagues at WISE and elsewhere to some of the work presented here, especially Jonathan Blagbrough, Joel Quirk and Mick Wilkinson. Some of his chapter draws on an earlier chapter co-authored with Blagbrough, Child domestic labour: when I play with the masters children, I always let them win, in A.-M. Duane (ed.) (2016), Small Bonds , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
John M. Davis undertook a BSc (Hons) in Social Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Ulster at Coleraine between 1986 and 1989. He completed a PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 1996. During the late 1990s he worked as a research fellow in the universitys Department of Public Health Sciences, as it was then known. After a period working in other roles he returned to the university in 2003, this time joining the Moray School of Education. There, he developed the BA in Childhood Studies (now Childhood Practice), which is a parttime professional degree for students who work as managers in childcare, out of school, play and family support services. He was Head of Educational Studies between 2007 and 2009 and Chair of the Scottish Social Services Council Childhood Practice Development Group between 2009 and 2012. Professor Davis research has examined the development of participator childhood research methods and focused on understanding children and young peoples perspectives of inclusion, social justice and integrated working.
