scholarly journals A Permanent and Significant Contribution: The Life of May Hill Arbuthnot

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Sharon McQueen
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Youth Services ◽  
Children's Services ◽  
Lecture Series ◽  
Biographical Dictionary ◽  
Children’S Services

May Hill Arbuthnot (1884–1969) was not a children’s librarian, nor did she teach children’s librarianship. She was not a scholar of children’s librarianship. How, then, did she come to have an entry in the biographical dictionary Pioneers and Leaders in Library Services to Youth among the pantheon of youth services legends that included Anne Carroll Moore, Augusta Baker, Mildred Batchelder, and Charlemae Rollins? Why did American Libraries include her among one hundred of the most important leaders of librarianship in the twentieth century? And why did ALA’s Children’s Services Division (now ALSC) agree to administer a lecture series named in Arbuthnot’s honor?

Delivering change for children

2020 ◽  
pp. 75-88
Author(s):  
Carl Purcell
Keyword(s):  
Early Intervention ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Young People ◽  
Social Behaviour ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Youth Services ◽  
Children's Services ◽  
School Autonomy ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Children’S Services

This chapter discusses the implementation of Labour’s ‘Change for Children’ programme following the passage of the Children Act 2004 during Blair’s final years as Prime Minister. Under the new structural arrangements every English local authority was required to merge education and children’s social care services to create a single children’s services department under the leadership of a Director of Children’s Services. However, it is argued that tensions between No 10 and the Treasury over social policy and public service reform in this period served to constrain the implementation of the new arrangements. Firstly, Blair’s prioritisation of greater school autonomy pulled against the focus on the integration of children’s services and accountability to children’s services and children’s trusts. Secondly, Blair’s perspective on youth services and the prioritisation of policies to tackle crime and anti-social behaviour, ran counter to the principle of early intervention and the provision of positive activities for young people under the ECM framework.

Schools reform and early intervention

2020 ◽  
pp. 127-148
Author(s):  
Carl Purcell
Keyword(s):  
Early Intervention ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Youth Services ◽  
Children's Services ◽  
Early Intervention Services ◽  
Children’S Services ◽  
Intervention Services ◽  
Spending Cuts ◽  
Children’S Centres

This chapter and the next consider the development of children’s services policy since 2010, including key changes introduced by the Conservative Secretary of State Michael Gove. From the outset it was clear that schools reform would be the overriding priority for the renamed ‘Department for Education’. Moreover, under Gove’s Academies and Free Schools programme the broad emphasis on child well-being and the integration of children’s services, under Labour’s ECM framework, was largely abandoned as schools were afforded greater autonomy from local authority children’s services. Furthermore, the prioritisation of schools’ reform meant that services such as children’s centres and youth services bore the brunt of spending cuts, notwithstanding the Prime Minister David Cameron’s proclaimed commitment to the refocusing of early intervention services. In this context, the DfE distanced itself from the restructuring and hollowing-out of early intervention services at the local level, and NGOs campaigning in this area were largely ignored.

scholarly journals Welcoming to All: Latinx Culture and Programming: Notes from Latinx Librarians

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 4
Author(s):  
Cristina E. Mitra ◽  
Edwin Rodarte ◽  
Maria F. Estrella ◽  
Lettycia Terrones
Keyword(s):  
Library Services ◽  
Children's Services ◽  
Vulnerable Communities ◽  
Barriers To Access ◽  
Diverse Communities ◽  
Children’S Services ◽  
Children's Librarians

ALSC prioritizes children’s services and programming to diverse communities. And while ALSC provides guidelines and tangible resources, children’s librarians are still often confronted with not only actualizing library services that support our most vulnerable communities, but also ensuring that our efforts empower our communities and do not result in perpetuating recursive barriers to access.

NSCAW II Baseline Report: Children's Services

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather Ringeisen ◽  
Cecilia Casanueva ◽  
Keith Smith ◽  
Melissa Dolan
Keyword(s):  
Children's Services ◽  
Children’S Services
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