BOOK
State Child Care
(1999)
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Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| State Child Care: Looking after Children? | 3 | ||
| Contents | 5 | ||
| Acronyms and abbreviations | 7 | ||
| Introduction | 9 | ||
| 1 A Brief History of State Child Care | 15 | ||
| Childhood and child care before 1834 | 15 | ||
| State child care after the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act | 17 | ||
| Children in the welfare state: 1945–1989 | 21 | ||
| Responding to Colwell: the 1975 Children Act | 25 | ||
| The 1989 Children Act | 27 | ||
| Enduring themes in child welfare | 29 | ||
| 2 Contemporary Issues and Concerns | 31 | ||
| Themes and issues in the 1989 Children Act | 31 | ||
| Child care: themes and issues | 35 | ||
| 3 Coming into Care – Family Placement and Residential Care | 51 | ||
| Choice and availability of placements | 54 | ||
| Multiple placements and placement breakdown | 56 | ||
| Research findings | 58 | ||
| Conclusions and implications | 71 | ||
| 4 Developments in Foster Care | 73 | ||
| Professionalising foster care | 75 | ||
| Life inside foster families | 77 | ||
| Research findings | 78 | ||
| Discussion | 87 | ||
| Conclusions and implications | 90 | ||
| 5 Managing the Behaviour of Looked After Children | 91 | ||
| Emotional and behavioural difficulties | 93 | ||
| Research findings | 96 | ||
| Discussion | 103 | ||
| Conclusions and implications | 107 | ||
| 6 The Education of Looked After Children | 111 | ||
| Attendance and exclusion | 114 | ||
| Expectations and achievement | 116 | ||
| Education and the looked after experience | 118 | ||
| Post-sixteen education | 119 | ||
| Research findings | 119 | ||
| Discussion | 129 | ||
| Conclusions and implications | 131 | ||
| 7 Leaving Care | 133 | ||
| Inter-agency cooperation and coordination | 135 | ||
| Youth transitions | 136 | ||
| Research findings | 137 | ||
| Discussion | 152 | ||
| Conclusions and implications | 153 | ||
| Acknowledgement | 154 | ||
| 8 Training, Support and Service Quality | 155 | ||
| Training | 157 | ||
| Support | 158 | ||
| Service quality | 160 | ||
| Research findings | 162 | ||
| Discussion | 171 | ||
| Conclusions and implications | 173 | ||
| 9 Involving Young People in Decision-Making | 175 | ||
| Research findings | 177 | ||
| Discussion | 186 | ||
| Conclusions and implications | 187 | ||
| Acknowledgement | 189 | ||
| 10 Conclusion | 191 | ||
| Looking after children? | 192 | ||
| Moving forward? New Labour, social policy and looked after children | 204 | ||
| Wider changes in state child care | 209 | ||
| Appendix: Outlines of the Four Research Projects | 213 | ||
| References | 223 | ||
| Subject Index | 234 | ||
| Author Index | 238 |