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Residential Child Care: International Perspectives on Links with Familie

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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.
The residential child care context, Malcolm Hill; inclusiveness in residential child care, Malcolm Hill; meeting children's needs through practice in Perth and Kinross, Andrew Turnbull; partners in parenting - safe reunification, Nora Fariss; parental responses to a complementary model of residential care, Denis Halliday; residential treatment - a resource for families, Elizabeth Ridgely; the family group home in Israel, Nechama Gluck; family reconstruction and the implications for group workers - an American perspective, Irene Stevens; role of siblings to children in residential care, Majent Kosonen; peer groups - a neglected resource,John Hudson. Conclusion, Mono Chakrabati.
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.
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