1. Introduction -- 2. Methodology - addressing a complex practice reality -- 3. Protecting children within discourses of the normal child and family -- 4. Policy as discourse -- 5. Sites of practice -- 6. 'Something happened': constructing maltreatment -- 7. Identities of responsibility -- 8. Who is a child? Who is a parent? -- 9. Constructing meanings and identities in child protection practice
Summary
Examines a contemporary and contentious social problem, child maltreatment, and the policy and practice in response to it, child protection