Product Description: This volume brings together a selection of the most influential and informative English language refereed journal articles on children in out-of-home care, their birth relatives and carers. The articles, which include empirical research and critiques of policy and practice, are mainly from the UK and USA, but include some coverage of child placement policy and practice in Australia and mainland Europe...read more

Product Description: Based on extensive studies into child welfare services, this important book brings together research into what works in service provision for minority ethnic families. Reviewing studies of the nature and adequacy of the services provided, and the outcomes for the children and their families, this book provides much-needed guidance for policy and practice around issues of cultural and ethnic background and identity, and puts forward suggestions for future research...read more

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Product Description: This book is based on the life accounts of 244 children of minority ethnic origin who were in need of permanent family placement, and who were placed with predominantly white foster carers and adopters. The book provides a most interesting overview of the decision-making and planning processes that shape the placement in care of children of minority ethnic origin in the UK...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is the second edition of a practice handbook which has proved popular with i those who work with children and families or are training to do so. The author is an acknowledged expert of international standing on child protection and family placement...read more

Product Description: Since the mid-1970s discussion about child care policy has been dominated by the concept of permanence' - the belief that if children in care cannot return to natural parents they should be placed, preferably for adoption, with permanent new families...read more