Residential Child Care - International Perspectives on Links with Families and Peers (Paperback)

Children have a much higher chance of permanently leaving care if they have strong family and peer group links outside their care home. Reflecting current political and policy priorities, Residential Child Care focuses on new developments designed to promote these family and network relationships. The book examines both care policies and individual schemes which involve families and other network members in the planning and care of children looked after in residential units or children's homes. The book provides guidelines on how to broaden the focus of residential care from staff-children relationships within the institution to more diffuse social networks of family and peers and outlines the principles which underpin the new emphasis on external social contacts.

Including examples of innovatory ideas and good practice from abroad, Residential Child Care shows why encouraging families to maintain an active role in the welfare of their children in care is so important, and explores the implications for child welfare systems as well as individual establishments, managers and practitioners.

General

Imprint:	Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 1999
First published:	2000
Editors:	Mono Chakrabarti
Contributors:	Nora Fariss • Andrew Turnbull • Irene Stevens • Nechama Gluck
Editors:	Malcolm Hill
Contributors:	John Hudson • Elizabeth Ridgely • Marjut Kosonen
Dimensions:	222 x 164 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	248
ISBN-13:	978-1-85302-687-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social welfare & social services > Child welfare Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Family & relationships > General
LSN:	1-85302-687-5
Barcode:	9781853026874

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