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Improving Child and Family Assessments
The quality of the assessment of children in need has a significant impact on outcomes for the children concerned. Good assessment contributes to better outcomes, but poor assessment can have tragic consequences. Understanding what makes a good assessment is vital. This book brings together findings from 10 years of UK research that shed light on different aspects of child and family assessment, and examines the evidence for what works in promoting the best outcomes for children. It covers thresholds for assessment and intervention, what information should be collected in assessments, and assessments in different contexts. It also examines key aspects of practice and the factors that can hel...
Pathways to Permanence for Black, Asian and Mixed Ethnicity Children
In the UK, social workers are required by law to take into account a child's ethnicity, along with other significant factors, when planning for and placing children in permanent placements. This useful study explores the impact of these considerations on ethnic minority children, raising key questions on common understandings of ethnicity and culture and how these are reflected in social work practice.
Assessing Adoptive Parents, Foster Carers and Kinship Carers, Second Edition
Assessing prospective adoptive parents, foster carers, kinship carers and special guardians is an extremely complex task, and one that happens within a pressurized time frame. Currently, assessments draw substantially on interviews, which can generate a lot of information but little analysis to enable professionals to establish a meaningful understanding of parenting capacity. Children with histories of trauma, loss and hurt need to join families in which parents exhibit the ability to be good at relationships, are able to manage their own stress and bond with the child in their care. Now fully updated and expanded to cover the assessment of kinship carers and special guardians, this book combines the latest findings from neuroscience with research on what makes good assessments and provides guidance and tools for making thorough, analytical and effective assessments. With contributions from leading experts including Dan Hughes, Jonathan Baylin, Kim Golding and Julie Selwyn, it will provide you with the information you need to ensure the best possible chance of placement success.
Who's Fit to be a Parent?
In recent years the notion of parenting and parenthood have increasingly come under examination from the media and professionals and, in particular, government and politicians. More and more, parents are being held to account by society for their failure to deliver the sort of citizens it wants. But what are parents supposed to be doing? Are there some people that are inherently unfit to be parents and does there exist a body of knowledge that defines fit parenting? Who's fit to be a parent? covers this highly topical and important subject in a stimulating and accessible way that cuts across numerous professional disciplines and opens up the boundaries between professional and personal expertise on parenting. It is essential reading for any professional or student of social work and social policy, those working in the voluntary services concerned with the family, social policy makers and for anyone interested in understanding what it means to be a parent today.
Focus on Early Childhood
Focus on Early Childhood: Principles and Realities brings together a wealth of information from various academic and professional standpoints. The picture of early childhood that has emerged in recent years is broader and more complex than is commonly understood. In particular, it gives full recognition to the competencies of children and their role as active constructors of their own lives. The authors of this book are from a diverse range of professional and academic disciplines, including education, social work, social policy, pyschology and law. They draw on recent research and theory to explore this common theme: the culturally disparate but enormously rich, dynamic and complex world of young children. Among the topics explored are the concept of quality in early care and education, and the National Curriculum in the primary school. Punishment and its effects, family stress and support as well as differing national policies are also covered thoroughly.
Social Work Assessment of Children in Need
This review of research was funded by the Department for Education with a view to gaining a better understanding of the relationship between the quality of assessments and outcomes for children in contact with children?s social care services.
Adoption
This report calls on the Government to widen the scope of a proposed new adoption measure. The Government's proposed 'fostering for adoption' duty is designed to encourage councils to place looked after children with foster carers who can then go on to adopt them, providing continuity and stability. The scope should be extended by creating a duty to consider a fostering for adoption placement for all children for whom adoption is the plan. The Committee does not find it necessary to remove any requirement to give consideration to ethnicity but recommends an alternative amendment to the legislation which accords ethnicity an equal place within the list of the child's needs and characteristics...
Adopting Large Sibling Groups
The first study in the UK to examine adopters' experiences of parenting a large sibling group and the views of staff in adoption agencies who need to recruit and support adopters willing to take siblings. It explores the motivation of sibling group adopters, variations in the practice of adoption agencies, the experiences of adopters and the rewards and challenges of adopting a large sibling group. The study includes the input of 14 adoption agencies, as well as 37 sibling group adopters from across the UK. Groundbreaking research into a little studied area.
Cliometrics of the Family
This contributed volume applies cliometric methods to the study of family and households in order to derive global patterns and determine their impact on economic development. Family and households are a fundamental feature of societies and economies. They are found throughout history and are the place where key decisions on fertility, labour force participation, education, consumption are made. This is especially relevant for the position of women. The book gathers key insights from a variety of fields – economics, history, demography, anthropology, biology – to shed light on the relation between family organisation and the long-term process of economic development.
