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Abstract
Child welfare and protection agencies play an important role in bringing concerns about children and young people to public attention. The press release is a key tool within this. This paper reports on findings from an analysis of press releases from selected UK child welfare and protection agencies in 2012. It demonstrates that the information contained in press releases is neither neutral nor dispassionate. Instead, press releases are found to be political artefacts, whose purpose is to galvanise and shape opinion and garner support for a particular standpoint, campaign or the agency itself. In this respect, they must be understood as ‘claims-making’ activities. Because of this, they should, it will be argued, be subject to the same critical scrutiny that we would expect to bring to the presentation of all ‘evidence’.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1-20 |
Number of pages | 20 |
Journal | Journal of Social Work |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 11 Mar 2016 |
Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)
- Child Protection
- children and families
- social constructionism
- press releases
- claims-making
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A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF 21ST CENTURY SOCIAL ISSUES AND ANXIETIES
Cree, V. (Principal Investigator), Smith, M. (Co-investigator) & Clapton, G. (Researcher)
1/10/12 → 31/10/14
Project: Research
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Gary Clapton
- School of Social and Political Science - UoE Honorary staff
Person: Affiliated Independent Researcher