Critical practice with children and young people

Description

This reader provides a critical perspective on work with children and young people at a time of change. Written by experts with a wide range of academic and professional experience, it examines the ways that ideas inform practice, explores recent changes in the organisation of services, especially moves towards greater integration, and explores what it means to be a critical, reflective practitioner. Covering the whole age range from early years to youth, the book will be relevant to anyone working with children and young people, for example in social work, education, healthcare, youth work, youth justice and leisure services

Martin Robb is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Health and Social Care at The Open University. His research interests include fatherhood, masculinity and childcare, and young people, identity and relationships. Rachel Thomson is Professor of Social Research at the Open University. She is a sociologist and has published widely in areas of childhood and youth studies, motherhood, sexuality and research methods.

"This is an important collection that takes a welcome critical stance on service integration and raises difficult questions about the costs and benefits of integration for policy-makers and practitioners alike. The book presents the arguments in an accessible and readable fashion and is well written, thoughtful and challenging." Dr. Simon Bradford, Reader in Social Sciences, Brunel University "This is an exciting and challenging collection of papers which will really help the reader to consider key contemporary issues of integrated services. It clarifies core issues for all those working with children and young people at a practice and policy level and it will help them to identify the relevant questions to ask before working out what needs to be done and how." Gill Frances, OBE, former Director of Children's Development at the National Children's Bureau