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Product Description: Managing Children's Homes' focuses on leadership, the role of managers, how resources are used in children's homes, and how this impacts on outcomes for children in care. The authors document the variation in success across different children's homes achieve and assess the influence of leadership and management style, the environment in which they work, the impact of staff support, and role of a clear management philosophy...read more

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9781843105428 | Jessica Kingsley Pub, December 15, 2007, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Managing Children's Homes' focuses on leadership, the role of managers, how resources are used in children's homes, and how this impacts on outcomes for children in care.

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Product Description: What happens to looked-after children in the longer term? This book analyses the outcomes of a large-scale study of foster children in the UK. It includes individual case studies and draws extensively on the views of foster children themselves...read more

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9781843102786 | Jessica Kingsley Pub, June 15, 2005, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: What happens to looked-after children in the longer term?

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Product Description: How can we determine success in foster placements? Based on exhaustive research, the authors discuss the primary concerns in foster placement planning, considering the high frequency of placement breakdowns, their impact on the child's behaviour and school performance, and the challenges this places on foster families...read more

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9781843101734 | Jessica Kingsley Pub, November 30, 2004, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: How can we determine success in foster placements?

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9781849853880 | Gardners Books, October 15, 2004, cover price $41.10

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Product Description: Foster carers look after two-thirds of the children cared for by English local authorities at any one time. The recruitment and retention of these carers is one of these authorities' central concerns. Against this background, Foster Carers examines the joys, sadnesses and strains of fostering, the support carers want and need, and the reasons why they continue or cease fostering...read more

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9781843101727 | Jessica Kingsley Pub, June 1, 2004, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: Foster carers look after two-thirds of the children cared for by English local authorities at any one time.

Product Description: Children s homes have cultures which vary from the benign to the malignant. Using a distinctive cross-institutional design, this study of 48 children s homes shows how some were characterised by widespread bullying, delinquency and low morale among both staff and residents whilst others were relatively peaceful and friendly...read more

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9780471984566 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, November 1, 1998, cover price $84.95 | About this edition: Children s homes have cultures which vary from the benign to the malignant.

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9780470859766 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, December 6, 2000, cover price $69.00 | About this edition: Children s homes have cultures which vary from the benign to the malignant.

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