Understanding residential child care /

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Author / Creator:Frost, Nick, 1953-
Imprint:Brookfield, Vt. : Ashgate, c1999.
Description:139 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3781303
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Other authors / contributors:Mills, Sue.
Stein, Mike.
ISBN:1857423100 (hc.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-135) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • A history of residential child care
  • Theoretical approaches to residential child care
  • Empowering children and young people
  • The Children Act 1989 and residential child care
  • The management task in residential child care
  • Supporting and supervising staff
  • The abuses and uses of residential child care
  • Leaving residential care
  • A future for residential child care?
  • Bibliography