Linking both theory and practice, this text examines the issue of how children are to be looked after if they cannot live in more traditional family units.
'These two authors are always worth reading for their breadth and originality. Their new book offers a timely and stimulating analysis of modern children's services' - David Berridge, Professor of Child and Family Welfare, University of Bristol. 'Clear yet thorough; practical yet politically insightful; complicated yet coherent...this book will ...
The book offers up to date information and guidance to the many professionals charged with responding to government agendas, in the UK as elsewhere in the world, of reshaping children's services towards integrated service delivery. The book explores the complexities of implementing the rhetoric of multi-professional teamwork within the real world ...
This collection focuses on child welfare in its specific sense: welfare and social interventions with children and young people undertaken by State bodies or NGO's. The term 'child welfare' is deployed differently in diverse international settings. In the United Kingdom child welfare tends to refer to individualised programmes for children who ...
'Reflective practice' - and evidence of it in portfolios, learning logs and other forms of assessment - is now a necessary part of professional education at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. In some professions it is also part of, or being considered as a vehicle for, continuing professional development and re-certification and ...
'These two authors are always worth reading for their breadth and originality. Their new book offers a timely and stimulating analysis of modern children's services' - David Berridge, Professor of Child and Family Welfare, University of Bristol. 'Clear yet thorough; practical yet politically insightful; complicated yet coherent...this book will ...
Based on current work with young runaways this survey looks, in particular, at the work of four Children's Society projects in Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham and Gwent. The report examines the causes of running away and the problems face by those who run - some of them as young as 11 years old. It has been revealed that children run away for ...
The book offers up to date information and guidance to the many professionals charged with responding to government agendas, in the UK as elsewhere in the world, of reshaping children's services towards integrated service delivery. The book explores the complexities of implementing the rhetoric of multi-professional teamwork within the real world ...
This text explores the question how successful has the Children Act 1989 complaints procedure been and how effective is it at helping prevent abuses of children in care? It studies the experiences of children in residential care, secure accommodation and foster care.
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