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What is the social cost of privatising public services? And what effect has the failure of previous privatisations had? This book tells how social work services are now being out-sourced to private companies and how this trend threatens the safety and wellbeing of vulnerable children and disabled adults.

In 2007, Peter Connelly, a 17-month-old boy living in north London, died as a result of sustained neglect and abuse. Fifteen months later, his mother, her boyfriend, and her boyfriend's brother were sent to prison for his death, but the media - who called Connelly Baby P - turned their attention toward the health and social workers who had been attending to him and his injuries during the eight months prior to his death.

1. Introduction: History and Hints. Part 1. Creating the Personal Social Services -- 2. Seizing the Moment: The Seebohm Committee -- 3. Scripting the Future: The Seebohm Report -- 4. Preparing the Platform: The Local Authority Social Services Bill and Act -- Part 2. The Personal Social Services in Action -- 5. Creating the Empires: Promise and Potential (1970-1976) -- 6. The Seismic Shifts of the Mid-1970s -- 7. Norming and Storming: Social Work Debates and Developments in the 1970s -- 8. Thatcher and Threat (1979-1989) -- Part 3. New Laws and New Horizons -- 9. A Drama in Two Parts: Part I The 1989 Children Act and Children's Social Services -- 10. A Drama in Two Parts: Part II The 1990 NHS and Community Care Act and Adult Social Services and Social Work -- Part 4. The Recent Reforms and Unravelling -- 11. New Labour: New Agendas (1997-2010) -- 12. Coalition and Conservatives: Austerity and Hostility (2010-2020) -- Part 5. Reflecting and Re-routing -- 13. The Personal Social Services Today and Tomorrow.

This book is the first to tell what happened to 'Baby P', how the story was told by the media and its considerable impact on the child protection system in England. It will make a crucial contribution to the topic.

2020 is the fiftieth anniversary of the creation of a unified profession of social work across the United Kingdom and of the creation of integrated personal social services in each of the four UK countries. This paper reflects on the genesis of these changes, tracks developments over the past fifty years, and comments on the current state of social work and the personal social services in England and throughout the UK.