A political history of child protection : lessons for reform from Aotearoa New Zealand

Exploring the current and historical tensions between liberal capitalism and indigenous models of family life, Ian Kelvin Hyslop argues for a new model of child protection in Aotearoa New Zealand and other parts of the Anglophone world. He puts forward the case that child safety can only be sustainably advanced by policy initiatives which promote social and economic equality and from practice which takes meaningful account of the complex relationship between economic circumstances and the lived realities of service users. Front Cover A Political History of Child Portection: Lessons for Reform from Aotearoa New Zealand Copyright information Dedication Epigraph Contents Glossary of Māori words About the author Acknowledgments 1 Power structures and problem definition Personal dimensions Political economy Re-politicising child protection Tensions and intersections Correlation and causation Modernisation and child protection Class analysis revisited A socialist perspective Class, race, gender and history Conflict and change The liberal inheritance 2 Origins of child protection in Aotearoa Sanitation Patterns and connections The liberal bones of welfare Middle-class benevolence Science and contamination Biopolitics Going native The spirit of colonial welfare Charitable inheritance Child welfare and social work: tracing lines of descent Care services Echoes of class and gendered discipline 3 Post-war child welfare Ideological boundaries The welfare state era Tensions and contradictions Professional identity State social work and child welfare The fifth social service Child and family bureaucracy Welfare visions and realities Changing times Benign authoritarianism A building crisis of faith Changing lenses: Indigenous narratives Maori and the post-war state Class, colonisation and racial inequality Demography, inequality and state care Prison disproportionality Racism and institutional abuse Institutional responses Rising Maori voices 4 The 1980s: a storm builds and breaks The child protection imperative The medico-professional wave Slow brewing conflict Care planning Matua Whangai Internal dissent and practice innovation Productive ambiguity Women against racism PtAT (day break) Legislative reform Legislation for whanau empowerment 5 Revolution from above: the neoliberal turn The roller coaster ride begins Turning the political screw The business of state social work Devolution reframed Forks in the new path Empowerment and efficiency Practice on the ground Professional guidance Political and organisational distortion A systemic problem Child protection revisited Shifting policy responses Biculturalism: lost in translation Iwi social services 6 Cycles of crisis and review Limits of the efficient production state Labour’s social development agenda The Brown review and new directions Strategic responses to risk and overload Moral panic and populist politics Ontological insecurity: Maori mothers and Pakeha identity Green and White Papers Vulnerable children Social investment ‘More effective social services’ (NZPC, 2015) Targeting the expensive and irresponsible Quadrant D and future welfare liability Whanau Ora and commissioning Expert Panel Vulnerability and love Remedies Early support and timely alternatives Attributing blame and reframing social work Social investment Maori commissioning and control The aftermath 7 Building a new paradigm Political location Social work in the state Politics and professionalism Deep echoes Problem families Eugenic traces Child welfare inequalities Poverty blinkers Implications for reform Inequalities in Aotearoa Bias and inequality Reform, conflict and recurrence Escalating Maori baby uplifts Signs of a wind shift The geyser blows Waitangi Tribunal evidence Practice review Remedies ‘He Take Kohukihuki’: a matter of urgency Ko Te Wa Whakawhiti Suggested way forward The Office of the Commissioner for Children’s review(s) Te Kuku O Te Marama: Part 1 Te Kuku O Te Marama: Part 2 A litany of troubles Conclusions and recommendations Discursive gaps He Paharakeke, He Rito Whakakikanga Wharuarua Transformational change Concluding messages References Index Back Cover "Exploring the current and historical tensions between liberal capitalism and indigenous models of family life, Ian Kelvin Hyslop argues for a new model of child protection in Aotearoa New Zealand and other parts of the Anglophone world. He puts forward the case that child safety can only be sustainably advanced by policy initiatives which promote social and economic equality and from practice which takes meaningful account of the complex relationship between economic circumstances and the lived realities of service users. " -- provided by publisher