1st Edition

Children Going Home The Re-unification of Families

277 Pages

by Routledge

277 Pages

by Routledge

277 Pages

by Routledge

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First published in 1998, this Darlington 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 takes forward ideas first reported in the... Read more

1. Introduction. 2. Return to child-care policy and law. 3. The Return Experience identified in child-care research. 4. Return in Other Contexts. 5. Designing the Study. 6. The Intensive Study. 7. General Themes form the Intensive Study. 8. Separation From Home. 9. Return Becomes and Issue. 10. The child back at home. 11. Long-Term Outcomes. 12. Children’s Return to Contexts Outside the Family. 13. General Patterns of Return. 14. Children for Whom Return Issues are Relatively Straightforward. 15. Children for whom issues of return are more complex. 16. Predicting Return Outcomes. 17. The Revised Checklists. 18. Conclusions.