Permanence in child care
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Permanence in child care
(The Practice of social work, 15)
B. Blackwell, 1986
- : pbk.
Available at 13 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. [193]-198
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
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ISBN 9780631150978
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. Before then it was considered difficult, if not impossible, to find adoptive parents for physically or mentally handicapped children, for black children or children of mixed parentage, and for older children. Over the past ten years adoption and fostering agencies have challenged this view. Impressed by their success in finding new families for wide range of children with special needs, some local authorities enthusiastically adopted permanence policies'. This is the first book to describe and evaluate independently British attempts to find new families for children with a range of special needs. Permanence in Child Care' locates such work in its historical and social policy context before going on to examine in depth the first three years of a specialist placement agency.
The rewards, difficulties and costs involved in the enterprise of moulding a new family are illustrated by the experiences and opinions of the children, their new families and their social workers, and form the basis of a discussion of permanence policies and of their place in British child care policy and practice.
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: pbk. ISBN 9780631150985
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. Before then it was considered difficult, if not impossible, to find adoptive parents for physically or mentally handicapped children, for black children or children of mixed parentage, and for older children. Over the past ten years adoption and fostering agencies have challenged this view. Impressed by their success in finding new families for wide range of children with special needs, some local authorities enthusiastically adopted `permanence policies'. This is the first book to describe and evaluate independently British attempts to find new families for children with a range of special needs. `Permanence in Child Care' locates such work in its historical and social policy context before going on to examine in depth the first three years of a specialist placement agency.
The rewards, difficulties and costs involved in the enterprise of moulding a new family are illustrated by the experiences and opinions of the children, their new families and their social workers, and form the basis of a discussion of permanence policies and of their place in British child care policy and practice.
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