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The end game: The marketisation and privatisation of children’s social work and child protection

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There is a long history of voluntary and other organisations, along with the state, providing social services for children in England. But crucial assessments and decision-making about the care and protection of children have been undertaken by local authorities within the context of democratic accountability and transparency. This is changing. The government is opening up children’s social work services, including child protection investigations and assessments, decisions about initiating care proceedings in the courts to have children removed from their families, and decisions where children should then live, to the market and to the private sector with companies such as G4S and Serco expanding into children’s social services. Nowhere else in the world are profit-driven companies given these powers. This article traces how this radical change is moving forward at pace.

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Critical Social Policy

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Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications., 2015

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English

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0261-0183

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Volume 35, Number 4, November 2015, p. 447-469

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social work
Social Policy
Child Protection
children in care

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