This text dares to engage readers constructively in practice dilemmas over child protection from a critical policy perspective that facilitates justice-orientated relationships against the impositions of political agendas. Walter Lorenz, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and Charles University Prague This timely and thought-provoking book about Childrens Services brings parents from the shadows of child-centred practice into the spotlight. Positioning parents as citizens, the authors unpick the assumptions built into childcare legislation, management and practice. By sympathetically reporting the frustrations, contradictions and limitations of contemporary child protection social work, they lay the foundations for practice that treats parents with respect. Paul Bywaters, University of Huddersfield In reconstructing the roles and representations of parents in the child protection process at the policy, organisational and practice levels, this nuanced book provides new and thought-provoking insights into the complexities and contradictions of the child protection process. Stefan Schnurr, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland.
