Growing Up in Foster Care
- ISBN-10
- 1873868936
- ISBN-13
- 9781873868935
- Category
- Foster children
- Pages
- 302
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Authors
- Gillian Schofield, Mary Beek, Kay Sargent
Description
Long-term foster care is one of the best kept secrets of the child care system. It is rarely mentioned as a positive option yet there is a significant group of vulnerable looked after children for whom growing up in a long-term foster family is their best chance of a secure family life. this new study looks at a group of 58 children under the age of 12 recently placed in long-term foster families. It provides a fascinating insight into their lives, their birth families, foster families and the system of social work practice that will define their future.
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