1. Introduction -- Telling a new story -- Locating our story -- A new story with some familiar chapters -- Understanding and tackling root causes -- Rethinking the state -- Relationship(s)-based practice and co-production -- Embedding ethics and human rights: a dialogic approach -- Stories of hope, repair and relationships: new directions -- Concluding remarks: travelling hopefully? -- Structure of the book -- 2. Trouble ahead? Contending discourses in child protection -- Child protection and expertise: enduring stories -- A better Britain for child, family and community: a sojourn in the mid-20th century -- 1980: Can social work survive? The 'what works?' question surfaces -- Making the case replaces casework: the 1990s and the tyranny of risk -- The 'orange book': the seductive certainties of standardised assessment -- From concern about dangerousness to concern about concern -- England: new public management, 'deliverology' and child protection -- The system reassessed -- Concluding remarks -- 3. Building better people: policy aspirations and family life -- Introduction -- Rewriting social deprivation in bodies and brains: the great leap backwards -- Prevention science and human perfectibility -- The economists seize control -- Preferred responses: infant determinism, parenting and programmes -- Implementation science: targeting and intervention efficacy -- Epigenetics: friend or foe? -- Concluding remarks -- 4. Family experiences of care and protection services: the good, the bad and the hopeful -- Introduction -- Background -- Negotiating help in the shadow of risk -- Fragmented roles and services -- Money and practical resources matter -- Time -- Cold-hearted encounters -- Relationships matter -- The deficit model of feedback -- Was partnership a wolf in sheep's clothing?

Green shoots? -- Concluding remarks -- 5. A social model for protecting children: changing our thinking? -- The social model of disability and its evolution -- Concluding remarks -- 6. A social model: experiences in practice -- Introduction -- Looking forward, looking back: 'tidal hope' -- Concluding thoughts -- 7. Domestic abuse: a case study -- Introduction -- Risk and rupture: who gets hurt? -- Rethinking who and why in domestic abuse -- Between domestic abuse and child protection -- Seeds of change? -- A social model of protecting children: domestic abuse -- Concluding thoughts -- 8. Crafting different stories: changing minds and hearts -- Introduction -- Navigating a post-truth landscape -- Framing our worlds: how and what? -- Discussion of framing theory: perils and opportunities -- "I thought you would hate me" -- Concluding thoughts -- 9. Concluding thoughts -- Introduction -- Let's talk -- Taking the next steps -- Concluding remarks -- References -- Index.