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Drawing on unique access to prominent policy makers including ministers, senior civil servants, local authority directors, and the leaders of children's sector NGOs, Purcell re-examines two decades of children's services reform under both Labour and Conservative-led governments. He closely examines the origins of Labour's Every Child Matters programme, the Munro review and more recent Conservative reforms affecting child and family social workers to reassess the impact of high profile child abuse cases, including Victoria Climbi and Baby P, and reveal the party political drivers of successive reform.

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This book is a 'must read' for anyone interested in recent child welfare policy. Drawing on an impressive range of high level interviewees, Purcell provides a readable and coherent account of child welfare policy making with valuable insights that illuminate the contemporary situation. Nick Frost, Leeds Beckett University

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Carl Purcell is a Research Associate in the Health and Social Care Workforce Research Unit within the Policy Institute at King's College London.

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