Foreword / Deryck Thomson
Introduction: People, Politics, and Child Welfare / Brian Wharf
1 Rethinking Child Welfare Reform in British Columbia, 1900-60 / Marilyn Callahan and Christopher Walmsley
2 Trends in Child Welfare: What Do the Data Show? / Leslie T. Foster
3 The Community Resource Board Experience / Brian Wharf
4 Child Welfare in the 1980s: A Time of Turbulence and Change / Sandra Scarth and Richard Sullivan
5 Witnessing Wild Woman: Resistance and Resilience in Aboriginal Child Welfare / Maggie Kovachs, Robina Thomas, Monty Montgomery, Jacquie Green, and Leslie Brown
6 The Community Advocate Minister: Attempting Major Changes / Riley Hern and John Cossom
7 Thomas Gove: A Commission of Inquiry Puts Children First and Proposes Community Governance and Integration of Services / Andrew Armitage and Elaine Murray
8 Great Expectations and Unintended Consequences: Risk Assessment in Child Welfare in British Columbia / Marilyn Callahan and Karen Swift
9 Back to the Future: Toward Community Governance / Leslie T. Foster
10 Views from Other Provinces / Brad McKenzie, Sally Palmer, and Wanda Thomas Barnard
11 The Case for a Comprehensive Vision for Child Welfare / Brian Wharf
12 From Child Protection to Safeguarding: The English Context / Tony Morrison
13 Final Thoughts / Brian Wharf
Appendix 1: Key Events in British Columbia Child Welfare, 1863 to May 2006
Appendix 2: Key Government Decision Makers in British Columbia Child Welfare, 1947 to May 2006
Appendix 3: Delegated Aboriginal Child and Family Service Agencies’ Status, May 2006
List of Contributors
Index
