Residential Child Care: International Perspectives on Links with Families and Peers - Softcover

Mono Chakrabarti And Malcolm Hill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853026875 ISBN 13: 9781853026874

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley, 1999

Synopsis

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, this work focuses on new developments designed to promote these family and network relationships. the book examines both care policies and individual schemes which involved families and other network members in the planning of 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 aborad, this volume 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.

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Review:

The opening two chapters by Malcolm Hill, who leads the Centre for the Child and Society at the University of Glasgow are, as ever, good value and a godsend to students. ...if residential care is going to survive in the UK we urgently need fresh ideas and constant reminders of how it is organised elsewhere - examples are contained within this book. Author: British Journal of Social Work

From the Author:

Mono Chakrabarti is Professor of Social Work at the University of Strathclyde. He has published in the fields of comparative social policy, community care and anti-racism. Malcolm Hill is Professor of Social Work and Director of the Centre for the Child and Society, University of Glasgow. He has published in the fields of child welfare, children's issues and family policy, and has edited a number of books for Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1853026875
• ISBN 13: 9781853026874
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176