Ian Sinclair, Claire Baker, Jenny Lee

The Pursuit of Permanence

A Study of the English Child Care System

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Children in public care complain that they have too many placements. Professionals agree but little is known about the reasons for this instability or how it affects different groups of children. The Pursuit of Permanence explores this core issue for children's services.

Produktdetails

• Quality Matters in Childrens Services
• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 156mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 484g
• ISBN-13: 9781843105954
• ISBN-10: 1843105950
• Artikelnr.: 23191499

Autorenporträt

Ian Sinclair is a research professor in the Social Work Research and Development Unit at The University of York, UK. Here he has been responsible for a large programme of work on children's homes, foster care and movement within the care system. Claire Baker worked at the Social Work Research and Development Unit at the University of York, in the fields of children in and leaving care (particularly disabled children), children in foster care, and stability and permanence issues for looked after children. She now works at the National Leaving Care Advisory Service. Jenny Lee worked as a research fellow at the SWRDU at the University of York, in the fields of looked after children, young people leaving care and young people running away from home. Ian Gibbs is a research consultant at the SWRDU at the University of York. His main area of research is looked after children, particularly those in residential care and foster care.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction. 2. Who is Looked After? The
Children's Characteristics. 3. Who is Looked After? The Children's
Families, Wishes and Behaviour. 4. Groups of Children and Their Chance of
Permanence. 5. Admissions and Discharges. 6. The Children and Their
Different Paths in Care. 7. Going Home and Leaving Care: The Case Studies.
8. Placements: How They are Used. 9. Placements: How One Leads to Another.
10. Children Based in Care. 11. Children and Outcomes. 12. Placements and
Outcomes. 13. Carers, Homes and Outcomes. 14. Teams and Outcomes. 15.
Councils and Outcomes. 16. An Overview. Appendix 1. Representativeness of
the Study Samples. Appendix 2. Analysis of National Data. Appendix 3.
Monitoring and Quality Assurance. References. Subject index. Author index.