Social Work With Looked After Children

Informationen zum Autor Lucille Allain is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Middlesex University and a Programme Leader for the social work pre-qualifying programmes. She has 18 years of child and family social work experience in child protection, looked after children and disabled children. Her experience spans working as a social worker, manager and in commissioning and developing new services. Her current research focuses on social work practice and young people leaving care. Klappentext This is a popular guide to a complex and demanding area of practice that looks at the experiences of children in need who live in state care and the social worker's role in working with them. There are chapters on communication and children's rights, life story work, attachment and culture, as well as ethnicity and faith. Zusammenfassung This is a popular guide to a complex and demanding area of practice that looks at the experiences of children in need who live in state care and the social worker's role in working with them. There are chapters on communication and children's rights, life story work, attachment and culture, as well as ethnicity and faith. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: Policy and Statistics Chapter 2: The Legal Framework Chapter 3: Pathways and Placement Types Chapter 4: Assessment, Care Planning and Contact Chapter 5: Communication Skills: Participation, Children¿s Rights and Life Story Work Chapter 6: Diversity and Equality Chapter 7: Disabled Children Chapter 8: Attachment, Adversity and Resilience Chapter 9: Looked After Children and Mental Health Chapter 10: Education of Looked After Children CHapter 11: Health of Looked After Children Chapter 12: Adoption and Permanence Chapter 13: Leaving Care

List of contents

Chapter 1: Policy and Statistics
Chapter 2: The Legal Framework
Chapter 3: Pathways and Placement Types
Chapter 4: Assessment, Care Planning and Contact
Chapter 5: Communication Skills: Participation, Children's Rights and Life Story Work
Chapter 6: Diversity and Equality
Chapter 7: Disabled Children
Chapter 8: Attachment, Adversity and Resilience
Chapter 9: Looked After Children and Mental Health
Chapter 10: Education of Looked After Children
CHapter 11: Health of Looked After Children
Chapter 12: Adoption and Permanence
Chapter 13: Leaving Care

Product details

• Authors: Lucille Allain, Allain Lucille, Author, Christine Cocker, Christine (University of East Anglia Cocker, Christine Allain Cocker, Cocker Christine
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2019
• EAN: 9781526424365
• ISBN: 978-1-5264-2436-5
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Transforming Social Work Practice Series; Transforming Social Work Pract; Transforming Social Work Practice Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, Social Work, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Child welfare, Child welfare and youth services