Kinship care fostering effective family and friends placements

Farmer, Elaine 1949- (Author). Moyers, Sue, 1948- (Added Author).

Summary: 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.

Record details

ISBN: 9781846428036 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1846428033 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1843106310
ISBN: 9781843106319
Physical Description: electronic resource
remote
1 online resource (254 p.)
Publisher: London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2008.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Formatted Contents Note:	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;
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.