Research Catalog

Title

Children going home : the re-unification of families / Roger Bullock, Daniel Gooch, Michael Little.

Author

Bullock, Roger

Publication

Ashgate : Brookfield, VT : Ashgate, 1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Gooch, Daniel
• Little, Michael, 1958-

Description

xi, 261 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

This Dartington child care study looks at the return experiences of children looked after by local authorities. It shows that although the great majority of children go back to their families and home communities, little is known about the process. How can professionals and carers make the transition as easy as possible? The book charts patterns of separation and return, considers the experiences of those involved and highlights factors associated with the likelihood of return and its success. Because the factors described in the earlier research have since been confirmed in a blind prospective study they are among the most robust indicators available.

Subject

• Child Welfare
• Child, institutionalised
• Children > Deinstitutionalization > Great Britain
• Deinstitutionalisation
• Family reunions > Great Britain
• Foster children > Family relationships > Great Britain
• Foster children > Great Britain > Family relationships
• Problem children > Family relationships > Great Britain
• Problem children > Great Britain > Family relationships
• Residential Facilities

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Return in child-care policy and law -- The return experience identified in child-care research -- Return in other contexts -- Separation from home -- Return becomes an issue -- The child back at home -- Long-term outcomes -- Children's return to contexts outside the family -- General patterns of return -- Children for whom return issues are relatively straightforward -- Children for whom issues of return are more complex -- Predicting return outcomes -- The statistical analysis used to predict return outcomes -- Making assessments of the quality of relationships between the members of the families of children in care -- The old and revised checklists compared.

ISBN

• 1840144947
• 1840144963 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^98034053^

OCLC

39706808

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library