New Zealand is in the midst of a campaign to cut welfare spending, aligned to the
'austerity'discourse preoccupying many countries. Over the period 2011–14, two significant …

This article reports on an investigation of media representations of 'feral families' and the
'underclass' over a period of intense welfare reform in New Zealand, which includes …

The launch of the Troubled Families Programme in 2011 has thrown into sharp relief how
governments develop policies and practices to intervene in the lives of so‐called 'troubled …

Child Poverty Action Group is pleased to publish this much needed report. Despite the
recent focus on 'vulnerable children'in New Zealand, many current policies themselves have …

Such captions permeate the written media. Subsequent text graphically details the physical
violence of girl-on-girl fights. Many readers are both shocked by and condemn such stories …

The Troubled Families Programme (TFP) was launched by the UK Coalition Government in
December 2011. Following the riots that took place in towns and cities across England …

Abstract According to Glenn Inquiry respondents, the problems with the Family Court system
are a result of the adversarial nature of the system, the difficulty victims have in affording …

The 'riots' in England during August 2011 involved a level of public disturbance and
destruction rarely seen in the United Kingdom. These events resulted in widespread …

This article is based on a lecture developed for teaching final year social work students in an
issue based learning module on violence in families in the School of Social Work and Policy …

The dismantling of the welfare state across the United Kingdom (and indeed a number of
other Western industrialised democracies, such as Canada and the United States) and the …