State Child Care

by Hayden, Carol; Goddard, Jim; Gorin, Sarah; Spek, Niki Van Der

• ISBN13: 9781853026706
• ISBN10: 1853026700
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-07-01
• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Pub

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