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9781853026706

State Child Care

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  • ISBN13:

    9781853026706

  • ISBN10:

    1853026700

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1999-07-01
  • Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Pub
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Author Biography

Carol Hayden is Senior Research Officer at the Social Services Research and Information Unit at the University of Portsmouth.

Table of Contents

Acronyms and Abbreviations 7(2)
Introduction 9(6)
A Brief History of State Child Care
15(16)
Childhood and child care before 1834
15(2)
State child care after the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act
17(4)
Children in the welfare state: 1945--1989
21(4)
Responding to Colwell: the 1975 Children Act
25(2)
The 1989 Children Act
27(2)
Enduring themes in child welfare
29(2)
Contemporary Issues and Concerns
31(20)
Themes and issues in the 1989 Children Act
31(4)
Child care: themes and issues
35(16)
Coming Into Care -- Family Placement and Residential Care
51(22)
Choice and availability of placements
54(2)
Multiple placements and placement breakdown
56(2)
Research findings
58(11)
Discussion
69(3)
Conclusions and implications
72(1)
Developments in Foster Care
73(18)
Professionalising foster care
75(2)
Life inside foster families
77(1)
Research findings
78(9)
Discussion
87(3)
Conclusions and implications
90(1)
Managing the Behaviour of Looked After Children
91(20)
Emotional and behavioural difficulties
93(3)
Research findings
96(7)
Discussion
103(4)
Conclusions and implications
107(4)
The Education of Looked After Children
111(22)
Attendance and exclusion
114(2)
Expectations and achievement
116(2)
Education and the looked after experience
118(1)
Post-sixteen education
119(1)
Research findings
119(10)
Discussion
129(2)
Conclusions and implications
131(2)
Leaving Care
133(22)
Inter-agency cooperation and coordination
135(1)
Youth transitions
136(1)
Research findings
137(15)
Discussion
152(1)
Conclusions and implications
153(2)
Training, Support and Service Quality
155(20)
Training
157(1)
Support
158(2)
Service quality
160(2)
Research findings
162(9)
Discussion
171(2)
Conclusions and implications
173(2)
Involving Young People in Decision-Making
175(16)
Research findings
177(9)
Discussion
186(1)
Conclusions and implications
187(4)
Conclusion
191(22)
Looking after children?
192(12)
Moving forward? New Labour, social policy and looked after children
204(5)
Wider changes in state child care
209(4)
Appendix: Outlines of the four Research Projects 213(10)
References 223(11)
Subject Index 234(4)
Author Index 238

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