Facing forward : residential child care in the 21st century
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Facing forward : residential child care in the 21st century
Russell House, 2005
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
How can residential child care - in children's homes and all kinds of residential schools, for short or long periods - change from 'last resort' to a 'positive choice' for young people? Designed to stimulate thinking and debate about the necessary, purposeful and positive possibilities of group care for those who can no longer live at home, this book is organised around their rights...to care as well as within care. Building on messages from Positive Residential Practice (RHP 2000), it provides resources for investigating key aspects of theory and practice. It covers: the policy context; difference and diversity; the voice of children and young people; improving educational attainment; and the dismal state of the secure estate. A section on group care theory and practice explores how staff, under pressure to be 'in control', may miss the significance of the support that young people can offer each other; and advises how staff can recognise the positive possibilities of the 'group' in group care.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: meeting the challenge of residential child care in the 21st century. The Policy Context Social exclusion and social inclusion: themes and issues in residential child care. Residential child care: becoming a positive choice. Difference and Diversity Residential care for black children. Thinking beyond 'diversity'
- black minority ethnic children in Scotland The Voice of Children and Young People Dismantling the barriers: giving a voice to disabled young people in residential care. Let's face it! Young people tell us how it is. Child-centred residential care: The Blueprint Project. The future direction of inspection. Group Care Theory and Practice Resilience and residential care for children and young people. Rethinking residential child care: a child and youth care approach. An outsider's view of the inside. Just a game? The therapeutic potential of football. New developments in care planning for children in residential care. Improving the Educational Attainment of Looked After Children and Young People Education and residential child care in England: a research perspective. Still room for improvement? The educational experiences of looked after children in Scotland. Locking up Children and Young People who Offend The dismal state of the secure estate.
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