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Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: People, Politics, and Child Welfare -- 1 Rethinking Child Welfare Reform in British Columbia, 1900-60 -- 2 Trends in Child Welfare: What Do the Data Show? -- 3 The Community Resource Board Experience -- 4 Child Welfare in the 1980s: A Time of Turbulence and Change -- 5 Witnessing Wild Woman: Resistance and Resilience in Aboriginal Child Welfare -- 6 The Community Advocate Minister: Attempting Major Changes -- 7 Thomas Gove: A Commission of Inquiry Puts Children First and Proposes Community Governance and Integration of Services -- 8 Great Expectations and Unintended Consequences: Risk Assessment in Child Welfare in British Columbia -- 9 Back to the Future: Toward Community Governance -- 10 Views from Other Provinces -- 11 The Case for a Comprehensive Vision for Child Welfare -- 12 From Child Protection to Safeguarding: The English Context -- 13 Final Thoughts -- Appendix 1 Key Events in British Columbia Child Welfare, 1863 to May 2006 -- Appendix 2 Key Government Decision Makers in British Columbia Child Welfare, 1947 to May 2006 -- Appendix 3 Delegated Aboriginal Child and Family Service Agencies' Status, May 2006 -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock

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