Authors: Roger Greeff
ISBN-13: 9781857424102, ISBN-10: 1857424107
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Limited
Date Published: May 1999
Edition: (Non-applicable)
In many countries, increasing numbers of children live with relatives who are caring for them as foster carers in partnership with the State. Fostering Kinship draws together a multi-national collection of papers, and aims to stimulate the development of policy and practice in this often neglected area. It aims to offer examples of good social work practice, informed by relevant theoretical insights; to give a voice to kinship foster carers and young people so that practice can be informed by an understanding of their experience, to share the results of current research to highlight issues for policy makers, and to place the issues in the wider international context of developing social policy, ideology and social change.
Acknowledgements | ||
Notes on Contributors | ||
Tables and Figures | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
Pt. I | The Policy Dimension | |
1 | Kinship, Fostering, Obligations and the State | 7 |
2 | The Continuing Role of Kinship Care in a Changing Society | 21 |
3 | Kinship Fostering - Research, Policy and Practice in England | 35 |
Pt. II | The Social Work Role | |
4 | Assessing Family Strengths - A Family Systems Approach | 49 |
5 | Kinship Fostering and Child Protection | 69 |
6 | Placement Choices for Children - Giving More Priority to Kinship Placements? | 85 |
7 | Working with Family Complexity - Supporting the Network | 99 |
8 | Evolving Networks in Relative Care - Alliance and Exclusion | 113 |
9 | Training Needs of Friends and Families Who Are Foster Carers | 135 |
Pt. III | Race, Gender and Welfare | |
10 | Kinship Foster Care in New York State - An African-American Perspective | 153 |
11 | Fostering in a Minority Community - Travellers in Ireland | 167 |
12 | Kinship Care in New Zealand - Cultural Sensitivity or Economic Expediency? | 181 |
Conclusion - Clear Policy and Good Practice in Kinship Foster Care | 201 | |
Index | 211 |