Remaking Social Work with Children and Families provides a sustained examination of the ''modernisation'' of this area of social care. It analyses some of the key themes introduced by the administrations of John Major and Tony Blair and provides a critical exploration of contemporary policy initiatives and issues. These include:
- the Looking After Children (LAC) materials
- The Framework for the Assessment of Children in Need and Their Families
- ''working together'' to protect children
- the mainstream approach to ''race'' and ethnicity in social work
- the implications for social work of the emergence of ''personal advisers'', mentors and related professionals.
The author argues that political and ideological factors need to be taken into account in order to understand the dominant discourses and evolving practices of social work with children. Potential fixation with ensuring that young people are able to ''fit'' into their allot
