Kinship care fostering effective family and friends placements - Farmer, Elaine (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2008)
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Chapter 8 Caring for Children:Contact, Standards of Careand the Impact of the Childrenon the Kin CarersChapter 9 The Perspectives of the SocialWorkers, Children and Parentson Kinship Care; Chapter 10 Implications for Policyand Practice; APPENDIX; REFERENCES; NOTES; SUBJECT INDEX; AUTHOR INDEX; BACK COVER
Children are frequently cared for by relatives and friends when parents, for whatever reason, are unable to care for their children themselves. Yet there has been very little information about how well children do when placed with kin or how safe they are in these placements. This book compares formal kinship care to traditional foster placements in order to ascertain which children are placed with kin, in what circumstances, how well such children progress, and how often these placements disrupt. The authors explore whether children placed with family and friends fare better or worse than oth