Children in public care complain that they have too many placements. Professionals agree but little is known about the reasons for this instability or how it affects different groups of children. The "Pursuit of Permanence" explores this core issue for children's services. Based on the largest study of the English care system in recent years, the book examines the children (what they need and what they want), their movements into, out of and within the care system, the nature and quality of their placements and the outcomes (whether the children are settled or happy). It analyses the reasons for movements and outcomes in different groups of children, and the relative impacts of the departments, social work teams and placements.It concludes with suggestions about how the care system should work, what it should offer and how it should be managed and inspected. This detailed, innovative and comprehensive study is essential reading for all professionals and academics involved with fostering, leaving care, adoption and children's services, as well as policy makers and students on social work courses.
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Ian Sinclair was a Research Professor in the Social Work Research and Development Unit at The University of York, UK. Here he has been responsible for a large programme of work on children's homes, foster care and movement within the care system. He is the author of Fostering Now: Messages from Research and the lead author of Foster Children: Where They Go and How They Get On, Foster Carers: Why They Stay and Why They Leave and Foster Placements: Why They Succeed and Why They Fail, all published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. Claire Baker worked at the Social Work Research and Development Unit at the University of York, UK, for six years in the fields of children in and leaving care (particularly disabled children), children in foster care, and stability and permanence issues for looked after children. She has since worked at Centrepoint youth homeless charity. She now works in the voluntary and community sector with children in and leaving care. Jenny Lee is a Research Fellow at the SWRDU at the University of York, UK, in the fields of looked after children, young people leaving care and young people running away from home. She has previously managed several projects for disadvantaged young people in West and North Yorkshire, UK. Ian Gibbs is a Researcher at the Social Work Research and Development Unit at the University of York, UK. His main area of research is looked after children, particularly those in residential care and foster care.
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Total Count, Case Study, Team Leader, Adolescent Adolescent Abused Asylum, Died Count, Total Adopted Count, Abandoned Count, Quality Protects, Total No Count, Disabled Count, Low Count, Stress Count, Frequency Per, Missing System, Health Trust, High Count, Family Centre, Young Offender Inst, Care Home Browse Sample Pages:
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secure unit, family difficulty score, adolescent entrants, fostering score, latest placement, acute family stress, acce pts, adolescent graduates, children first looked, placement with parents, permanent substitute care, repeat admissions, school performance score, more challenging behaviour, leaving care teams, last placement, supervising social workers, high quality placements, more placements, behaviour score, minority ethnic children, same carer, rejecting care, census date, client information system Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Total Count, Case Study, Team Leader, Adolescent Adolescent Abused Asylum, Died Count, Total Adopted Count, Abandoned Count, Quality Protects, Total No Count, Disabled Count, Low Count, Stress Count, Frequency Per, Missing System, Health Trust, High Count, Family Centre, Young Offender Inst, Care Home Browse Sample Pages:
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