| Edited by Sonia Jackson
Edited by one of the world’s leading experts on education and looked after children, this anthology argues that education, in its broadest sense, should be at the centre of care and care at the centre of education. It brings together up-to-date evidence from interdisciplinary research with innovations in practice that have been shown to make a real difference – both in the UK and overseas.
| Eileen Fursland with Kate Cairns and Chris Stanway
The Ten Top Tips series considers some of the fundamental themes in child care practice in concise, practical guides ideal for busy practitioners. This book looks at some positive steps that workers and carers can take to support looked after children in school.
| Julia Feast, Margaret Grant, Alan Rushton, John Simmonds and Carolyn Sampeys
This unique study explores the long-term outcomes for a group of girls, now women in middle age, adopted from orphanages in Hong Kong, by families in the UK. The study offers a rare opportunity to explore the impact of adverse early experience, modified by adoption in creating opportunities and risks, over 50 years.
| Dominic McSherry, Montserrat Fargas Malet and Kerrylee Weatherall
This book reports on the Care Pathways and Outcomes longitudinal study which, since 2000, has been tracking a group of children who were under the age of five and in care in Northern Ireland on a particular census day, and gathering comparative data on how the children and their parents/carers were coping across the different types of placement provided. The book reports on the most recent phase of the study, which involved interviews with the children and parents/carers on a range of subjects.
| Nicola Hill
This is a compelling collection of stories of lesbians and gay men who have adopted or fostered children. Single and in partnerships, they share their experiences on a number of issues and write about life as an adoptive family.
| Jane Jackson
This short guide looks at some of the most common big adoption questions that adopted children ask, and explores the feelings and worries that can lie behind a child’s questions, with useful suggested dialogues.
| Marjorie Morrison
How can I start talking to my adopted child about their past? What information do children need at different ages? What if my child has difficult or painful experience in their past? Talking about adoption will help you find answers to these tricky questions. It outlines the whys, whens and hows of telling the truth about an adopted child’s origins.
| David Quinton
This groundbreaking conceptual and research review summarises the beliefs and principles on which matching is currently based, the evidence of its effectiveness, and the research that can guide the development of the matching process. It provides essential and thought-provoking reading for practitioners which will spark a rethinking of matching practice.
