Nick Axford
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781847420657
- eISBN:
- 9781447302278
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781847420657.001.0001
- Subject:
- Social Work, Children and Families
Policy reforms to children's services in the UK and elsewhere encourage a greater focus on outcomes defined in terms of child well-being. Yet for this to happen, we need not only a better ...
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Policy reforms to children's services in the UK and elsewhere encourage a greater focus on outcomes defined in terms of child well-being. Yet for this to happen, we need not only a better understanding of what child well-being is and how services can improve it, but also the ability to measure child well-being in order to evaluate success. This book investigates the main approaches to conceptualising child well-being, applies them to the child population using household survey and agency audit data, then considers the implications for children's services. The book provides a clear conceptual understanding of five perspectives on well-being: need, rights, poverty, quality of life and social exclusion; demonstrates the value of each perspective; charts levels of child well-being in an inner-London community; including violated rights and social exclusion; and sets out the features that children's services must have if they are to improve child well-being defined in these terms.Less
Policy reforms to children's services in the UK and elsewhere encourage a greater focus on outcomes defined in terms of child well-being. Yet for this to happen, we need not only a better understanding of what child well-being is and how services can improve it, but also the ability to measure child well-being in order to evaluate success. This book investigates the main approaches to conceptualising child well-being, applies them to the child population using household survey and agency audit data, then considers the implications for children's services. The book provides a clear conceptual understanding of five perspectives on well-being: need, rights, poverty, quality of life and social exclusion; demonstrates the value of each perspective; charts levels of child well-being in an inner-London community; including violated rights and social exclusion; and sets out the features that children's services must have if they are to improve child well-being defined in these terms.
Paul Henderson Yvette Smalle
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781861343567
- eISBN:
- 9781447302766
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781861343567.003.0008
- Subject:
- Social Work, Communities and Organizations
This chapter picks up on the fact that agencies are increasingly being required to undertake assessments of community needs and resources. It discusses the range of methods and tools available for ...
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This chapter picks up on the fact that agencies are increasingly being required to undertake assessments of community needs and resources. It discusses the range of methods and tools available for carrying out community audits and profiles, and illustrates good practice through two case studies — Getting to Know Your Community, based in Leeds and the East African Women's Project, in Sheffield.Less
This chapter picks up on the fact that agencies are increasingly being required to undertake assessments of community needs and resources. It discusses the range of methods and tools available for carrying out community audits and profiles, and illustrates good practice through two case studies — Getting to Know Your Community, based in Leeds and the East African Women's Project, in Sheffield.
Jennifer Sumsion
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781847429339
- eISBN:
- 9781447307679
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781847429339.003.0012
- Subject:
- Social Work, Children and Families
This chapter revisits the use of an ethical audit framework developed by Sumsion to scaffold a preliminary mapping and analysis of some of the economic, social and political issues that emerged in ...
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This chapter revisits the use of an ethical audit framework developed by Sumsion to scaffold a preliminary mapping and analysis of some of the economic, social and political issues that emerged in Australia with the rapid growth of the corporate childcare provider, ABC Learning during the period 2001-05. Using the lenses of goals, obligations and dispositions as developed by Cribb and Ball (2005), the audit framework is used to examine whether the corporatisation of Australian early childhood care – that is, the rapid expansion and escalating market share of childcare services operated and / or owned by public companies listed on the stock exchange – was in the public interest. It extends the mapping and analysis through to the period 2006 – 2009, when ABC Learning continued domestic expansion and unprecedented international growth to become the largest global childcare corporation, ending with its dramatic collapse in 2008. For Australia, in particular, therefore, the first decade of the 21st century constituted a radical ‘national experiment’ in corporatised early childhood education and care. This chapter undertakes a retrospective ethical audit of that radical experiment. The chapter concludes with reflections on some of the many questions prompted by the rise and fall of ABC Learning.Less
This chapter revisits the use of an ethical audit framework developed by Sumsion to scaffold a preliminary mapping and analysis of some of the economic, social and political issues that emerged in Australia with the rapid growth of the corporate childcare provider, ABC Learning during the period 2001-05. Using the lenses of goals, obligations and dispositions as developed by Cribb and Ball (2005), the audit framework is used to examine whether the corporatisation of Australian early childhood care – that is, the rapid expansion and escalating market share of childcare services operated and / or owned by public companies listed on the stock exchange – was in the public interest. It extends the mapping and analysis through to the period 2006 – 2009, when ABC Learning continued domestic expansion and unprecedented international growth to become the largest global childcare corporation, ending with its dramatic collapse in 2008. For Australia, in particular, therefore, the first decade of the 21st century constituted a radical ‘national experiment’ in corporatised early childhood education and care. This chapter undertakes a retrospective ethical audit of that radical experiment. The chapter concludes with reflections on some of the many questions prompted by the rise and fall of ABC Learning.
