In care and after : a positive perspective /

• Chase, Elaine, 1962-
• Simon, Antonia.
• Jackson, Sonia
• University of London. Thomas Coram Research Unit.

• Foster children -- Great Britain
• Foster home care -- Great Britain
• Youth -- Institutional care -- Great Britain
• Youth with social disabilities -- Great Britain.

• Routledge,

• 0415352533
• 0415352541 (pbk.)

• "Studies ... carried out at the Thomas Coram Research Unit at the Institute of Education, University of London"--Ack.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Introduction Part one: What do we Know? Key policies and statistics on looked after children in care or leaving care and the role of advocacy "Elaine Chase, Antonia Simon and Sonia Jackson " 2. Looking After Children Away From Home: An historical overview of policy and practice "Sonia Jackson" 3. Advocacy for Looked After Children: Can it make a positive difference? "Chris Oliver " 4. Outcomes for Children in Public Care: The national picture "Antonia Simon and Charlie Owen" Part two: Looking for the Positives: Some of the positive experiences and/or outcomes for young people in care or leaving care from case study evidence 5. Educational Outcomes for Children in Public Care "Sonia Jackson, Sarah Ajayi and Margaret Quigley" 6. Does Early Parenthood Spell Disaster or Opportunity? "Elaine Chase and Abigail Knight" 7. Going Private: Young People in Private Foster Arrangements "Charlie Owen and Sofka Barreau "8. Social Pedagogy in Europe: Comparisons of the quality of life and life chances or looked after children "Pat Petrie" Part three: Learning from Research: Policy recommendations 9. The Research Information Base: Processes and Problems "Claire Cameron, Valerie Wigfall, Antonia Simon and Charlie Owen" Conclusion: Policy Recommendations and Conclusions "Elaine Chase, Antonia Simon and Sonia Jackson".

• Achieving positive outcomes for children in care
• Becoming a social worker
• Improving the health and wellbeing of young people leaving care
• Facing forward residential child care in the 21st century
• Promoting resilience in looked after children
• Residential child care prospects and challenges
• lives of foster carers private sacrifices public restrictions
• Residential child care collaborative practice
• Young people in care and criminal behaviour
• Working with children in care European perspectives
• Working with girls and young women in community settings
• Rethinking residential child care positive perspectives
• Outcome indicators for looked after children England
• Developing effective aftercare projects a resource guide based on the experiences of six Aftercare Projects operating and managed by the Royal Philanthropic Society
• Assessing the support needs of adopted children and their families building secure new lives
• Too much too young the failure of social policy in meeting the needs of care leavers
• education of children who are looked after
• Social work with young people in care looking after children in theory and practice
• Education and care away from home a review of research policy and practice
• childs journey through care placement stability care planning and achieving permanency
• What works in leaving care
• Working in childrens homes challenges and complexities
• Health of looked after children and young people
• RHP companion to foster care
• Social work practice concepts processes and interviewing
• Making residential care work structure and culture in childrens homes
• Foster carers why they stay and why they leave
• value base of social work and social care
• Social work and disadvantage addressing the roots of stigma through association
• What the standards say about fostering
• Making enquiries into alleged child abuse and neglect partnership with families
• Solving problems in foster care key issues for young people foster carers and social services
• Growing up in foster care
• Understanding social work research
• Social work with looked after children
• Young people leaving care life after the Childrens Act 1989
• Adolescence assessing and promoting resilience in vulnerable children
• Family therapy basics
• Social work in education and childrens services
• Secret lives growing with substance working with children and young people affected by familial substance misuse
• Helping families with troubled children a preventive approach
• post qualifying handbook for social workers
• Foster placements why they succeed and why they fail
• Social work law
• task centred book
• Community care and empowerment
• Quality matters in childrens services messages from research
• Learning theories for teachers
• Neglected children and their families
• People like us the report of the review of the safeguards for children living away from home
• Anti oppressive ethics and values in social work
• Social work theory and practice for a changing profession
• Attachment and loss in child and family social work
• Assessing childrens needs and circumstances the impact of the assessment framework
• Citizen involvement a practical guide for change
• Child protection
• Training to teach in the learning and skills sector from threshold award to QLTS
• Childrens needs parenting capacity the impact of parental mental illness problem alcohol and drug use and domestic violence on childrens development
• Social work and child and adolescent mental health
• What is social work context and perspectives
• Social work voices from the inside
• Empowering practice a critical appraisal of the family group conference approach
• Foundations of evidence based social work practice
• Child protection an introduction
• Essentials of social work policy practice
• Modern social work theory a critical introduction
• Handbook for practice learning in social work and social care knowledge and theory
• Child law handbook guide to good practice
• Safeguarding adults
• Anti oppressive social work a guide for developing cultural competence
• Contemporary child care policy and practice
• Framework for the assessment of children in need and their families guidance notes and glossary for Referral and initial information record Initial assessment record and Core assessment records
• Critical practice in social work
• Making sense of Every child matters multi professional practice guidance
• Critical perspectives on safeguarding children
• Promoting childrens wellbeing policy and practice
• Building the future social work with children young people and their families
• Social work critical theory and practice
• Social work with disabled people
• Good practice in adult mental health
• Safeguarding children a shared responsibility
• Family life and family support a feminist analysis
• Meeting the needs of ethnic minority children including refugee black and mixed parentage children a handbook for professionals
• Making sense of the Children Act 1989
• Approaches to needs assessment in childrens services
• Values and practice in childrens services
• Good practice in safeguarding children working effectively in child protection
• Good practice in child protection
• Safeguarding childhood early intervention and surveillance in a late modern society
• Forty years of research policy and practice in childrens services a Festschrift for Roger Bullock
• Social work ideals and practice realities
• Working together to safeguard children a guide to inter agency working to safeguard and promote the welfare of children
• Children the modern law
• Supporting families child protection in the community
• Working with young people
• Assessment in child care using and developing frameworks for practice
• Social work and empowerment
• assertive social worker
• Social work with children and families
• Bright futures promoting children and young peoples mental health