The Transformation of Children's Services

Joan Forbes is Senior Lecturer and Director of the Centre for Children’s Services Research and Policy Study in the School of Education, University of Aberdeen. Cate Watson is Senior Lecturer in Professional Learning in the School of Education, University of Stirling.

Part One. Introduction 1. Introducing the complexities of inter/professional working Joan Forbes and Cate Watson Part Two. Policy, theory, discourse: the complexities of collaborative working 2. Complexity, identity, failure: contemporary challenges to working together Andrew Cooper 3. Partnerships: the politics of agendas and policy implementation Andrew Eccles 4. Transprofessional social capital in children’s services: dis/connects in policy and practice Joan Forbes 5. For whom the bell tolls: education, care and the possibility of professional practice in uncertain times Ian Stronach and John Clarke Part Three. Preparing practitioners and leaders for inter/professional practice: identities, connections, knowledges 6. Social capital connections: troublesome knowledge and early career practitioners James McGonigal and Julie McAdam 7. Perspectives on identity: being and becoming a headteacher Michael Cowie and Megan Crawford 8. Professional identities: developing leaders for inter/professional practice Gary Crow 9. The challenge of articulating a common language: CAT and the socially constituted self Ian Kerr Part Four. Questioning the orthodoxies of collaboration 10. Transforming social work identities: towards a European model? Mark Smith 11. Emergent spaces: looking for the civic and the civil ininitial professional education Julie Allan 12. The pretty story of ‘joined-up working’: questioning interagency partnership Cate Watson 13. Probing the limits of collaboration: professional identity and institutional power Walter Humes Part Five. Conclusion 14. Inter/professional children’s services: complexities, transformations and futures