Residential Child Care: Between Home and Family: 17 - Brossura

Connelly, Graham; Milligan, Ian

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1780460007 ISBN 13: 9781780460000

Casa editrice: Dunedin Academic Pr Ltd, 2012

Riassunto

In Scotland, government statistics show about 1,700 Scottish children and young people are in residential care at any given point in time. In addition, several hundred others - including those with significant learning, physical, and communication disabilities - receive regular periods of respite care in residential units. Residential child care has also been the focus of a considerable amount of government policy making. There have been changes in the average size and location of residential units, changes in staffing structures, and repeated attempts to train the workforce better. Residential care has also been the focus of considerable regulation and scrutiny, much of it in response to scandals associated with abuse. Scotland's residential care services are strongly supported by central government policy and the government continues to play a major role, particularly for the most disadvantaged children. The sector is noteworthy in that Scotland does not have a separate juvenile justice 'detention' sector, and it only has a tiny in-patient child and adolescent mental health service. Another notable characteristic of the children's homes sector is that a significant number remain under local authority control. Meanwhile, there has been a steady decline in the voluntary sector provision. This is the first dedicated study of the Scottish children's residential care sector. Appropriate comparisons are made to parallel provision elsewhere in the UK and in Europe. The result is a book of great interest and utility to all those working, training, or formulating practice and policy for the children's residential care sector. (Series: Policy & Practice in Health and Social Care - No. 17)

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Recensione:

If you are new to looked-after children's care or looking for policy directions you will learn how a well-ordered system could be structured. For the more experienced, this book gives many opportunities for reflection on the present and future for English children's homes. We are left asking whether the current government reform agenda is thorough or yet another tweak. --Children & Young People Now

The book certainly meets its main aim of providing an overview of residential care in Scotland. There is a clear desire for readers to understand their subject and the structure of the book enables this. For students and those new to working with young people in residential care, this is an engaging introductory text. It may also offer a new perspective for people working in residential childcare settings outside of Scotland or for practitioners whose work with looked after children usually involves adoption, fostering or kinship care. --Adoption and Fostering

L'autore:

Dr Graham Connelly specialises in Residential Child Care at the Glasgow School of Social Work. Dr Ian Milligan teaches in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Strathclyde.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Dunedin Academic Pr Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1780460007
• ISBN 13: 9781780460000
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 119