The RHP companion to foster care /

• Wheal, Ann

• Foster home care -- Great Britain
• Children -- Institutional care -- Great Britain
• Foster children -- Services for -- Great Britain
• Foster parents -- Services for -- Great Britain
• Family social work -- Great Britain.

• Russell House,

• 1903855608 (pbk.) :
• 9781903855607 (pbk.)

• 32.95

• Previous ed.: 1999.
• Includes bibliographies and index.
• Acknowledgements. Foreword. Introduction. Reflections. The Wider Context. A social and policy understanding of the changing perceptions of Children and Childhood Foster Care - a research overview. Identity issues. International perspectives of foster care: New events and responses. Reflections on partnership practice and children and young people who are looked after. Foster Care Practice. Standards in foster care. The professionalisation of foster care. Education - for children and young people in public care. The health of children who are fostered. The mental health of foster children. Meeting the needs of looked after siblings. Foster children with disabilities. Safe caring. The role of the Children's Guardian (previously Guardian ad Litem). Child protection. Promoting identity and preparing children, separated from their birth families, for their futures: A new life work model for practice. Men who foster. Types of fostering. Family and friends care - challenges and solutions. Private fostering. Family link care. Treatment foster care. In care and in trouble? The contribution Family Placement can make to effective work with young offenders. Support care. Issues. Education and Training of foster carers and social workers. Supporting foster carers and others working with carers and foster children. Working with parents to promote child-focused contact. Complaints and allegations. Allegations of abuse against foster carers: prevention, protection and procedural considerations. The sons and daughters of foster carers. Independent fostering providers (previous agencies). Changing attitudes - changing cultures. Fostering unaccompanied asylum seekers and refugee children. Conclusion.

• Improving safeguarding practice study of serious case reviews 2001 2003
• lives of foster carers private sacrifices public restrictions
• Enhancing social work practice with refugee children in exile the psychosocial effects of war conflict and displacement
• What the standards say about fostering
• Child and family assessment in social work practice
• Refugee children towards a new horizon
• wellbeing of children in care a new approach for improving developmental outcomes
• Siblings in late permanent placements
• Community care
• Facing forward residential child care in the 21st century
• plan for the child adoption or long term fostering
• Solving problems in foster care key issues for young people foster carers and social services
• Child protection and mental health services interprofessional responses to the needs of mothers
• Collins dictionary of social work
• Foster carers why they stay and why they leave
• Foster care theory and practice
• Assessment in kinship care
• Quality matters in childrens services messages from research
• Working with children in care European perspectives
• What are they doing here a critical guide to asylum and immigration
• Foster placements why they succeed and why they fail
• Working with unaccompanied asylum seeking children issues for policy and practice
• Social work law
• Social work with looked after children
• Understanding childrens social care politics policy and practice
• Neglected children and their families
• In care and after a positive perspective
• Social work and direct payments
• Social work with young people in care looking after children in theory and practice
• Gender and child protection
• task centred book
• Law for social workers
• Social work in education and childrens services
• Working with abused children
• childs journey through care placement stability care planning and achieving permanency
• Anti oppressive social work a guide for developing cultural competence
• Child neglect identification and assessment
• Qualitative research in social work
• Understanding social work preparing for practice
• Participation and empowerment in child protection
• Social work and child and adolescent mental health
• Applying family therapy a guide for caring professionals in the community
• Reflective practice in social work
• Social work and human development
• Direct payments and personal budgets putting personalisation into practice
• Studies in the assessment of parenting
• Evidence based social work a guide for the perplexed
• Child sexual abuse responding to the experiences of children
• Assessment in social work
• Social work process and practice approaches knowledge and skills
• integration of mental health social work and the NHS
• Child protection
• Social work and social problems working towards social inclusion and social change
• Partnership working in health and social care
• Linkages effective networking in social care
• Child protection an introduction
• guide to interviewing children essential skills for counsellors police lawyers and social workers
• Communication and interpersonal skills in social work
• Child maltreatment in the United Kingdom a study of the prevalence of child abuse and neglect
• Child development for child care and protection workers
• Studies informing the framework for the assessment of children in need and their families
• Safeguarding adults in social work
• Social work making a difference
• Critical thinking for social work
• Child law handbook guide to good practice
• Working with involuntary clients a guide to practice
• Handbook for practice learning in social work and social care knowledge and theory
• Social work critical theory and practice
• Applying research in social work practice
• Effective practice in health and social care a partnership approach
• What is social work context and perspectives
• Social work law
• Values and ethics in social work practice
• Social work with older people
• Going inter professional working together for health and welfare
• Collaborative social work practice
• Social work an introduction to contemporary practice
• Research methods for social work
• child protection handbook
• new politics of crime and punishment
• What works for children effective services for children and families
• Making sense of the Children Act 1989
• essentials of community care
• Social work domestic violence and child protection challenging practice
• Making sense of Every child matters multi professional practice guidance
• Working with vulnerable adults
• Anti discriminatory practice
• Vulnerable adults and community care
• Communication and interpersonal skills in social work
• Safeguarding childhood early intervention and surveillance in a late modern society
• Child neglect practice issues for health and social care
• Cognitive behavioural therapy in mental health care
• Child abuse towards a knowledge base
• Modern social work theory a critical introduction
• Social work practice assessment planning intervention and review
• Anti oppressive social work theory and practice
• Anti oppressive practice social care and the law
• Interprofessional working in health and social care professional perspectives
• child in mind a child protection handbook
• Reflective learning for social work research theory and practice