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Child Welfare Services for Minority Ethnic Families

Ashok Chand | June Thoburn | Joanne Procter
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  • ISBN 9781843102694
  • Weight: 400g
  • Dimensions: 154 x 232mm
  • Publication Date: 15 Oct 2004
  • Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Based on extensive studies into child welfare services, this important book brings together research into what works in service provision for minority ethnic families. Reviewing studies of the nature and adequacy of the services provided, and the outcomes for the children and their families, this book provides much-needed guidance for policy and practice around issues of cultural and ethnic background and identity, and puts forward suggestions for future research. The authors consider in particular:

* the complex needs and identities of minority ethnic families who might use child welfare services

* how families using social services view current practice

* the impact of the formal child protection and court systems on ethnic minority families

* placement patterns and outcomes for children from the different minority ethnic groups who are in residential care, foster care or adopted

* cultural issues and `matching' the social worker to the family.

Drawing on current government statistical returns and the 2001 national census, this wide-ranging analysis challenges dated research and practice and proposes a revisionary agenda for future research and culturally sensitive child welfare practice, making it essential reading for all child welfare professionals.
About Ashok Chand | Joanne Procter | June Thoburn
June Thoburn is Professor of Social Work at the School of Social Work and founding Director of the Centre for Research on the Child and Family at the University of East Anglia, Norwich. She has an international reputation for her research and writing on child and family social work, child protection, adoption and foster care. She was awarded the CBE in 2002 for services to social work. Ashok Chand is a Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Nottingham where he teaches child and family social work on qualifying and post-qualifying programmes. He is currently researching family support and child protection services to South Asian families. Joanne Procter is responsible for the statistical aspects of this study. She has a degree in social policy and is currently researching the place of in-court mediation in helping separating parents to reach agreements in disputes about children.

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