Write 12 pages with APA style on The Politics of Social Policy. These developments have been harmonious as well as conflicting.

Write 12 pages with APA style on The Politics of Social Policy. These developments have been harmonious as well as conflicting.

The general objective of this essay is to present a critical evaluation of contemporary social policy about and for child welfare in the UK. The discussion will put emphasis on New Labour’s policy and three policy areas, namely, child abuse, child poverty, and child mental health. Only these three policy areas are chosen since it would be impractical to discuss all existing policy areas in the UK. The three chosen policy areas are the most pressing dilemmas of social policy in the UK today. The definition of social policy that will be used in this essay is the one that concerns guidelines for the creation, protection, or changing of living conditions that are favorable or beneficial to human welfare. Hence, social policy is a component of public policy that concerns social issues like child protection and welfare.

This essay will use the rights-based approach. This is a perspective that puts together the objectives, norms, and ideals of the international human rights constitution into the development of agendas and processes (Leira & Saraceno, 2008). The rights-based approach to contemporary social policy for child welfare is characterized by activities and processes that relate the human rights principles and its natural concept of struggle with development and power (Hendrick, 2005). This essay argues that, primarily, children continue to be neglected in professional practice and policymaking. When children are perceptible and the emphasis of policymaking this is frequently because they are viewed and treated as ‘troublesome’ or ‘disturbed’ (John, 2003). Hence, just like in the past, according to Hodgson and Spours (1999), present-day ‘childhoods’ and contemporary children are marked by a political aspect.