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This study was undertaken to examine child welfare policies in terms of their relative emphases on protective or preventive measures, and it set out to determine whether, in general, protective policies enhance or reduce the impact of preventive policies or vice versa. There are great contradictions implicit in governments attempting simultaneously to pursue protective and preventive policies. Protection is used, in this report, to mean the rescue or supervision of a child from adverse family circumstances by compulsory government intervention, while prevention is used to refer to the summoning of an appropriate range of services on a non-compulsory basis, to reinforce and enhance the caring capacity of the family for the child.

As part of its research on the welfare of old people, the Social Welfare Research Centre commissioned Jan Carter to spend three months reviewing federal and state government policies which relate to care of those with brain failure. The paper identifies the resources which go into care of the population in question and where they are to be found. It then tries to elucidate why these resources exist and to uncover some of the political and social policies which sustain these resources.

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Social Work Ethics and Values in Turbulent Times -- Introduction -- The public and the private -- On conscience -- References -- 2 Human Rights and Ethics -- Introduction -- Point of departure: understanding human rights -- Defining human rights -- Collective versus individual human rights -- Role of the United Nations and social workorganizations -- Universalism and cultural relativism -- Guidelines for analysing cultural relativism -- Overview of social work ethics -- Connecting human rights to social work ethics -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Social Justice -- Introduction -- Social justice and the evolution of social work -- Social justice and the evolution of social work -- Summary -- Conclusion: implications for social work practice -- References -- 4 Professional Integrity: From Conformity to Commitment -- Introduction -- Professional integrity as a complex moral quality -- Philosophical perspectives on integrity -- Versions of professional integrity -- Cases -- Reflections on the cases -- Conclusion: developing professional integrity -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 5 Power and Authority in Social Work Practice: Some Ethical Issues -- Introduction -- Power and authority: the inevitable ground ofsocial work -- Power and authority: the ethical challenge -- Case study: child protection -- The ethics of power and authority in practice -- Conclusion -- References -- 6 The Political Ethics of Care and Feminist Posthuman Ethics: Contributions to Social Work -- Introduction -- The ethics of care and posthuman ethics approaches -- Definition of care -- The phases of care and their moral elements -- The integrity of care -- Uses of the political ethics of care in social work -- Further ways in which care and posthuman ethics arerelevant to social work -- Conclusion -- Note.