The 'care' of children in need in contemporary Scotland the role of positivism and performance indicators in official imaginings of childhood and wellbeing
Improving the wellbeing of children is an ambition of governments worldwide. This has led to increased activity to measure the implementation of policies intended to achieve this. In this paper, we argue that this is currently limited through the reliance on statistically-driven methods and that the...
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Main Authors: | Chris Holligan, Lucy Hanson, Gillian Henderson, Maria Adams |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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2014-04-01
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Series: | Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care |
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