Dedication

pp iii-iv

Epigraph

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-vii

List of Figures and Tables

pp viii-viii

About the Author

pp ix-ix

Acknowledgements

pp x-x

Introduction

pp 1-14

Part I - Preventative Services and Children’s Charities: Policy and Paradigm Shifts

pp 15-16

1 - New Labour, Children’s Services and the Third Sector

pp 17-34

2 - Contemporary Preventative Services, Coalitions and the Conservatives

pp 35-60

Part II - On the Frontline of Early Intervention

pp 61-62

3 - The Policy and Service Delivery Field of Early Intervention Services

pp 63-80

4 - State Education: the Relationships Between Schools and Charity?

pp 81-106

Part III - The Lived Realities of Commissioning Children’s Early Intervention Services

pp 107-108

5 - Commissioning Children’s Services: Challenges, contestation and Crisis

pp 109-144

6 - The Changing role of Children’s Charities Delivering Early Intervention Services

pp 145-176

7 - Partnership Working, Securing Advantage and Playing the Game: Thriving, not Just Surviving

pp 177-206

Part IV - Concluding Thoughts

pp 207-208

8 - The Action Imperative to do Things Differently?

pp 209-222

Appendix: Data and Methods: Voices from the Frontline

pp 223-230

References

pp 231-250

Index

pp 251-259