Kinship care : fostering effective family and friends placements /
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 form...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; Philadelphia :
Jessica Kingsley Publishers,
2008.
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Colección: | Quality matters in children's services.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | 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. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (254 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
ISBN: | 9781846428036 1846428033 1281782327 9781281782328 |