research in practice

The author divides the literature into ‘pre-Children Act’ and ‘post-Children Act’ eras in the lifetime of ‘the family centre movement’. He also identifies two political contexts: 1979-1997 as an ‘era of welfare’, and post 1997 as an era defined by the development of a child care strategy. Warren-Adamson poses the question, as new centre-based practices emerge, are we ‘losing some of the lessons gained by family centres of a social inclusive practice’ (ibid: 172).