Social work and foster care / Helen Cosis-Brown.
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TextSeries: Post-qualifying social work practicePublisher: Los Angeles : SAGE, 2014Description: viii, 158 pagesContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781446258934 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Foster home care -- Great Britain | Foster children -- Services for -- Great BritainDDC classification: 362.7'33'0941 Summary: Working with children in foster care is a demanding and rigorous aspect of social work practice. Often difficult decisions have to be made and for students and practitioners alike, there is a vast array of legislation, law and social policy to understand. This book will help social workers and social work students get to grips with the complexity of foster care. The child is placed at the heart of the text and there are substantial chapters on law, policy frameworks and the overreaching theoretical and research evidence to support good practice.
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Working with children in foster care is a demanding and rigorous aspect of social work practice. Often difficult decisions have to be made and for students and practitioners alike, there is a vast array of legislation, law and social policy to understand. This book will help social workers and social work students get to grips with the complexity of foster care. The child is placed at the heart of the text and there are substantial chapters on law, policy frameworks and the overreaching theoretical and research evidence to support good practice.
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