What Works in Residential Child Care

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A01=Adrian Ward
A01=Roger Bullock
A01=Roger Clough
Author_Adrian Ward
Author_Roger Bullock
Author_Roger Clough
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child abuse
child protection
child residential care
children's social care
children’s social care
Direct work
domestic abuse
domestic violence
early help
emotional abuse
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mental health
neglect
parental capacity
physical abuse
safeguarding children
sexual abuse
social work
trauma

Product details

  • ISBN 9781904787778
  • Weight: 41g
  • Dimensions: 170 x 245mm
  • Publication Date: 31 Dec 2006
  • Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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This book reviews research evidence, drawing on a study of residential services in Wales and a literature review of US and UK findings, and identifies the significant elements that will lead to a successful strategy for residential child care across the UK.
Roger Bullock is Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at the University of Bristol. He is editor of Adoption and Fostering. Roger Clough is Emiritus Professor of Social Care at Lancaster University, having moved there in January 1994 from the post of Chief Inspector of Social Services with Cumbria Social Services. He started work as a teacher/housemaster in senior boys' approved schools. From there he moved to residential work and social work teaching. Adrian Ward works is the Programme Director of the qualifying MA in Social Work at the Tavistock Centre, London. His background is in residential child care and he has written extensively about residential care, group care and therapeutic approaches to social work, and co-edited several books in this field; he was editor of the journal Therapeutic Communities from 1999 to 2005.

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