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Regulation in Child Protection—Policy Failure?
Mai Walton is Co-ordinator of Child Care Studies at the University of Keele. She lectures on the Dip. SW and Post Qualifying Course in Child Care Law and Practice.
Correspondence to Mai Walton, Department of Applied Social Studies and Social Work, University of Keele, Keele, Staffs. ST5 5BG
Summary
This paper examines child protection policy formulation and implementation. It suggests that policy has been incrementally formed in an expedient fashion to suit the political and organizational status quo. It draws upon models of issue ascendancy, policy analysis and inspection, and argues that child protection policy is regulatory in nature yet lacks the prerequisites normally found in regulation. It examines perceived policy failure and demonstrates that this results from partial policy formulation and lack of clarity in objectives.
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