| Young People Leaving Care: Life After the Children ACT 1989 Contributor(s): Broad, R. A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1853024120 ISBN-13: 9781853024122 Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers OUR PRICE: $47.45 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 1998 Annotation: What happens to young people when they leave care? Young care leavers are very over-represented in all the problem social policy areas (for example in the homelesshess, young offender's institutions, and begging and poverty statistics). Although there has been some progress in assisting care leavers with their transition to independence, the problems they present and face remain acute. This book contains extensive practice information; original research material and policy findings about young people leaving public care and the work of leaving care projects. It contains data on the circumstances of over 3000 young people leaving care, as well as the work of the leaving care projects across England and Wales which participated in the research, and provides an extensive analysis of national and local developments and the impact of the Children Act 1989. Each chapter contains good practice and policy examples, and the book concludes with a critical analysis of key practice, policy and theoretical issues and discussion of ways of moving forward. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Social Work - Political Science | Public Policy - Social Policy |
| Dewey: 362.730 |
| LCCN: 98137818 |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 6.14" W x 9.1" (0.95 lbs) 288 pages |
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Contributor Bio(s): Broad, R. A.: - Professor Bob Broad PhD is Visiting Professor, Weeks Centre for Social and Policy Research, London South Bank University. He was previously Professor of Children's and Families Research at De Montfort University, Leicester; Director of Research at the National Children's Bureau, London; and Lecturer in Social Work Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science, London. He has managed, undertaken and published a large number of research studies about children looked after, leaving care, foster care, kinship care and grandparenting. |