Making Residential Care Work: Structure and Culture in Children's Homes (Routledge Revivals)

Bullock, Roger

BROWN, ELIZABETH

Little, Michael

Hobson, Caroline

Parenting & Relationships

Routledge

Lost in Care: The Problems of Maintaining Links Between Children in Care and Their Families

Politics & Social Sciences

Millham, Spencer

Hosier, Kenneth

Kaak, Martin

Social Sciences

Gower Pub.Co.

Research in Practice (Routledge Revivals)

Gooch, Daniel

Mount, Kevin

Philosophy

Children Going Home: The Re-unification of Families (Routledge Revivals)

<p>First published in 1998, this Darlington child care study looks at the return experiences of children looked after by local authorities. It shows that although the great majority of children go back to their families and home communities, little is known about the process. How can professionals and carers make the transition as easy as possible? The book takes forward ideas first reported in the Dartmouth publication, going home: The return of children separated from their families and tested in subsequent research. It charts patterns of separation and return, considers the experiences of those involved and highlights factors associated with the likelihood of return and its success. Because the factors described in the earlier research have since been confirmed in a blind prospective study they are among the most robust indicators available. </p>

Making Residential Care Work: Structure and Culture in Children's Homes (Dartington Social Research Series)

Over 6,000 children live in residential homes in England and Wales, but it is proving increasingly difficult to provide them with satisfactory care. The fact that some children's homes are better than others is well established, but why should this be so? Past answers have tended to be tautologous - rather on the lines of "a good home is one where children do well; children do well because they are in a good home". This Dartington study examines various aspects of children's homes and explores the connections between them in an attempt to break down the old circular argument. Structures are discernible in the relationship between different types of goals - societal, formal and belief; the variable balance between these goals determines staff cultures, which, in turn, shape the child cultures that develop. Such relationships are important because of their close association with outcomes - whether the children do well, whether the homes prosper. The model described in the book provides a conceptual framework and a set of causal relationships that should help professionals to plan and manage residential care better and so meet the needs of vulnerable children more effectively.

Politics & Government

Ashgate Pub Ltd

This work explores the care careers of adolescents in long-stay treatment units with emotional and conduct disorders. But this is only one part of the equation for treatment eligibility - the other being the professional, administrative and legal framework in which the problems are addressed.

Secure Treatment Outcomes: The Care Careers of Very Difficult Adolescents (Dartington Social Research Series)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

This work is about a series of experimental ventures to learn about the application of research findings.

Research in Practice: Experiments in Development and Information Design

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Children Going Home: The Re-Unification of Families (Dartington Social Research Series)

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