Child care law Scotland
| Alexandra Plumtree
This quick reference guide provides a quick introduction to the main legal provisions and principles affecting the law relating to child care in Scotland.
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Looked after children and offending
| Gillian Schofield, Laura Biggart, Emma Ward, Victoria Scaife, Jane Dodsworth, Alice Haynes and Birgit Larsson
There have been longstanding concerns about the risk of offending for children in care. This research study investigates the characteristics and pathways of looked after children and the risk and protective factors that may reduce the risk of offending and promote resilience.
Completing a child's permanence report
| Elaine Dibben with Lyn Bugarski, Nicky Probert and Julia Wilson
This guide is designed to help social workers to manage and complete a comprehensive and evidence-based permanence report for a looked after child. It is to be used by assessing social workers to complete a Child’s Permanence Report using the CoramBAAF Form CPR (for England).
Facilitating adoptions from care
| Susan Livingston Smith and Donaldson Adoption Institute staff
This fascinating collection examines child welfare research, permanency and practice across England, the US and Canada, three countries which have established permanency as a priority for children in care who are unable to return home.
Social work with Gypsy, Roma and Traveller children
| Paul Adams
Social work with Gypsy, Roma and Traveller children and families has received scant attention, for a variety of reasons, including long-term historical and societal factors. This Good Practice addresses these and many more questions and will be of immense help to all those working with Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities and looked after children.
Ten top tips on supporting education
| 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.
Adversity, adoption and afterwards
| 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.
Comparing long term placements for young children in care
| 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.
Proud parents
| 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.