This book challenges the current child protection culture and calls for family-minded humane practice where children are understood as relational beings, parents are recognized as people with needs and hopes and families as carrying extraordinary capacities for care and protection.

Brid Featherstone is Professor of Social Care at the Open University and has extensive experience of researching gender issues in child protection.
Sue White is Professor of Social Work (Children and Families) at the University of Birmingham and undertakes research on systems design in child protection.
Kate Morris is Associate Professor of Social Work at the University of Nottingham and studies family minded practices in child protection

Introduction;
Re-imagining child protection in the context of re-imagining welfare;
We need to talk about ethics;
Developing research mindedness in learning cultures;
Towards a Just Culture: Designing Humane Social Work Organisations;
Getting on and getting by: living with poverty;
Thinking afresh about relationships: Men, women, parents and services;
Tainted love: how dangerous families became troubled;
Conclusion;
References.