The child's journey through care : placement stability, care-planning, and achieving permanency /
Contributor(s): Iwaniec, Dorota
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Publisher: Chichester, England ; Hoboken, NJ : J. Wiley & Sons, c2006Description: xviii, 284 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0470011378 (hbk. : alk. paper); 9780470011379:; 9780470011379 (hbk. : alk. paper); 0470011386 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9780470011386 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Child welfare -- Government policy -- Great Britain | Child care -- Research -- Great Britain | Children -- Services for -- Great BritainDDC classification: 362.70941 Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : an overview of children in public care / Dorota Iwaniec -- Ordinary children in extraordinary circumstances / Jane Aldgate -- The importance of developing emotional bonds between parents and children / Emma Larkin -- Children in alternative care : are their rights being met? / Rosemary Kilpatrick -- Outcomes of long-term foster care : young people's views / Colette McAuley -- Kinship care as a route to permanent placement / Una Lernihan and Greg Kelly -- Exploring regional trends in pathways to permanency / Dominic McSherry and Emma Larkin -- Developments in residential care in Northern Ireland / Dominic McSherry and Emma Larkin -- The mental-health needs of looked-after children / Tom Teggart -- Changing lives or just changing location? Planning for adolescents in substitute care / Helga Sneddon -- Making use of positive psychology in residential child care / Stan Houston -- Pathways to permanence : accommodation, compulsion, and permanence under the children (NI) order (1995) / Theresa Donaldson -- Care planning in care proceedings : a case study perspective on achieving permanency / Dominic McSherry -- The participation of looked-after children in public law proceedings / Karen Winter -- Messages from research / Dorota Iwaniec and Helga Sneddon.
The latest in childcare research is collected in this volume, covering the developmental needs of children, children in need of foster care, residential & mixed care, & court proceedings. The book also covers such practice issues as helping strategies, resource allocation, & the decision-making process.