1. The scope of residential work with children 2. Provision for children’s needs—I 3. Provision for children’s needs—II 4. Provision for children’s needs—III 5. The residential worker’s task 6. Staff and unit 7. Unit, agency and institution 8. Problems of residential work 9. Residential work problems with wider implications 10. Suggestions for further reading
Biography
Christopher Beedell, at the time of the first publication, was Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Administration and Social Work, University of Bristol, UK.
Review of the first publication:
‘A comprehensive account of residential work with children which looks in detail at the characteristics of the job, its functions and tasks and what resources the individual worker and the unit need to fulfil their tasks. The book is a masterpiece…packed with valuable matter…’
— Joan Edmonds, Social Work Today
