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Administrative Information
adoption records access
Annual Progress Reviews
Author_Gill Pugh
Barnardo's Childcare records
Barnardo's Children
Barnardo's Work
Birth Families
Birth Parents
Birth Records
Birth Relatives
British Sociological Association
care leaver identity
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child rescue
child welfare research
Childcare Philosophies
Earlier Childhood Identifications
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Genealogical Bewilderment
General Register Office
Genetic Sexual Attraction
historical child care policy
Lac
Life Span Development Theory
Local Authority Social Services Act
Long Term Foster Families
Mature Image
mature independence
Original Birth Certificate
Original Birth Records
Post-Adoption Centre
post-care identity formation
qualitative case studies
Residential Care Group
Sensitive Information
social work practice
Transracial Placement
Product details
- ISBN 9781138352384
- Weight: 410g
- Dimensions: 152 x 219mm
- Publication Date: 23 May 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Published in 1999, this text explores the impact of access to child care records, specifically upon adults who grew up in the care of Barnardo's. Most of the adults studied had reached their middle years with little or no knowledge of their family background or reasons for admission to care. The book researches the links between quality of care in childhood and the intensity of "need to know" about origins in later life. It looks at the complex process of assimilating information, and the need for such information to be imparted with skillful judgement and sensitivity. The implications for service provision for those seeking access to their records is highlighted, as well as for current child care practitioners. Requests for access to care records at Barnardo's have grown from around 1500 a year prior to 1995, to several thousand in one month alone following media publicity about the opening up of Barnardo's records. Other organizations are just beginning to recognize the growing demands for this service. This text aims to use these studies to examine the impact, particularly upon sense of identity, of ignorance about one's origins and the effects of acquiring such information later in life
Gill Pugh
