Jean Soper, Harriet Ward, Lisa Holmes, Richard Olsen

Costs and Consequences of Placing Children in Care

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book gets to the bottom of the costs of care and provides an insight into how these variations in cost relate to differences in children's needs, and most importantly, whether higher costs reflect better services and better outcomes for children.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 160mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 5680g
• ISBN-13: 9781843102731
• ISBN-10: 1843102730
• Artikelnr.: 23548555

Autorenporträt

Harriet Ward is Director of the Centre for Child and Family Research and Senior Research Fellow at Loughborough University, UK. She has undertaken extensive research in the field of assessing need and evaluating outcomes in children's services. Lisa Holmes is a Research Associate at the Centre for Child and Family Research at Loughborough University, UK. Her research interests include the provision of support services for foster carers, costs of foster care, and youth justice. Jean Soper is based at Leicester University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Authors' note. 1. Introduction. 2. Identifying Local Authorities
and Children for Exploring the Costs of Care. 3. The Development of Unit
Costs for Social Care Processes. 4. Placement Patterns, Processes and
Costs. 5. Children and Costs. 6. Need, Cost, Service and Outcome. 7. The
Relationship Between Cost and Value: Children's Views of the Value of
Services. 8. The Cost Calculator for Children's Services. 9. Conclusion:
Cost Calculations and their Implications for Policy and Practice.
References. Index.