Exploring Concepts of Child Well-Being
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- ISBN 9781447305859
- Dimensions: 172 x 240mm
- Publication Date: 29 Jun 2012
- Publisher: Bristol University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Policy reforms to children's services in the UK and elsewhere encourage a greater focus on outcomes defined in terms of child well-being. Yet for this to happen, we need not only a better understanding of what child well-being is and how services can improve it, but also the ability to measure child well-being in order to evaluate success.
This book investigates the main approaches to conceptualising child well-being, applies them to the child population using household survey and agency audit data, then considers the implications for children's services. The author:
provides a clear conceptual understanding of five perspectives on well-being: need, rights, poverty, quality of life and social exclusion
demonstrates the value of each perspective
charts levels of child well-being in an inner-London community, including violated rights and social exclusion
sets out the features that children's services must have if they are to improve child well-being defined in these terms
This book should be read by everyone involved in developing, implementing and evaluating children's services, including researchers, policy makers and practitioners.
Nick Axford is a Researcher at Dartington Social Research Unit, UK. He has worked on numerous projects to measure child well-being in service and community contexts and then use the results to design new services.
