Making Child Protection Work: Harry Ferguson

About this episode

The episode features a discussion with Harry Ferguson about his book on child protection and the evolution of social work practice.

Send us Fan Mail This episode starts with Hannah and Matt talking about reforms to fostering (and caramel lattes). Matt and Hannah are then joined by Harry Ferguson to talk about his latest book, ‘Making Child Protection Work’. The episode explores how over time Harry’s research moved from asking social workers what they do, to immersing himself in social work practice, through ethnographic research, being with social workers in the places where child protection social work happens. Harry sha...

People in this episode

Hosts: Matt, Hannah

Guest: Harry Ferguson

Topics covered

• child protection
• social work
• ethnographic research
• fostering reforms
• social workers

Keywords

• child protection
• social work
• Harry Ferguson
• fostering
• ethnographic research

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Making Child Protection Work

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