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9781843103622 Academic Inspection Copy

Fostering Now

Messages from Research
  • ISBN-13: 9781843103622
  • Publisher: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
  • By Ian Sinclair
  • Price: AUD $67.99
  • Stock: 2 in stock
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  • Local release date: 14/07/2005
  • Format: Paperback (295.00mm X 212.00mm) 176 pages Weight: 456g
  • Categories: Adoption [VFVK]
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Fostering Now summarizes the findings of the largest recent study into foster care in the UK. It provides an overview of 16 research projects specially commissioned by the government as part of its Supporting Parents initiative and highlights the main implications for policymakers and all professionals involved in the fostering process.The research explores the views of foster children, social workers, foster carers and parents, investigating their diverse experiences of, for example, arranging a placement, carer training and support, and the child's return home. It looks at how the placement is influenced by factors such as contact with birth families, foster carers' parenting styles, and factors relating to the child such as gender, ethnicity, age or disability. Follow-up studies examine what happens to foster children when they leave care, and compare the outcomes for children returning home and for those who remain in care. Identifying the most significant challenges currently faced by foster care, the researchers draw out the key messages for policy and practice and the further questions arising from their work. This book is essential reading for social workers, policy makers, academics and foster carers themselves.
Foreword; The Overview Process; 1. Introducing the Report; 2. Home or Away? Some Basic Issues; 3. Developing Roles for Foster Care?; 4. What Should Foster Care Provide?; 5. Placing Children in Foster Care; 6. Making Placements Work: The Children; 8. Making Placements Work: Foster Families. 8. Making Placements Work: Birth Family and Contact; 9. School and Education. 10. Recruitment and Retention. 11. Training, Professional Support and Organisations. 12. Conclusion; Appendix A: The Researchers' Summaries of their Projects; Appendix B: Bibliography; Index.
Ian Sinclair has succeeded in producing a volume that deserves to be read and used by all those involved in the contemporary looked after system. The title implies that the focus is exclusively on foster care. Those working in other areas of family placement would also derive much benefit from reading this book.
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