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A Diversity of Childhoods: Considering the Looked After Childhood

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  • This chapter centres on the lives of disabled children and ‘Looked After Children’, many of whom are disabled.

  • We ask: Can disabled children’s childhood studies (DCCS) be useful towards thinking about other forms of non-normative childhood?

  • We focus on three areas: (i) surveillance and intimacy; (ii) pathology and psychologisation; and (iii) vulnerability and future.

  • We conclude that DCCS offers new perspectives on the lives of Looked After Children and that it is a framework that can be used to think through other ‘non-normative’ childhoods.

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    Legislation differs between England, Scotland, and Wales.

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    Luke Jones

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Jones, L., Liddiard, K. (2018). A Diversity of Childhoods: Considering the Looked After Childhood. In: Runswick-Cole, K., Curran, T., Liddiard, K. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Disabled Children’s Childhood Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54446-9_25

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