Social work with looked after children / Christine Cocker.

By:

Cocker, Christine

Contributor(s):

Allain, Lucille

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Transforming social work practicePublication details: Exeter : Learning Matters, 2013.Edition: 2nd edDescription: xiii, 241 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmISBN:

9780857259196 (pbk.)
0857259199 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

362.7 COC

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Policy and statistics -- ch. 2 The legal framework -- ch. 3 Pathways and placement types -- ch. 4 Assessment, care planning and contact -- ch. 5 Communication skills: Participation, children\'s rights and life story work -- ch. 6 Culture, ethnicity and faith: Working with children in care from diverse communities -- ch. 7 Disabled children -- ch. 8 Attachment, adversity and resilience -- ch. 9 Looked after children and mental health -- ch. 10 Education and health of looked after children -- ch. 11 Adoption and permanence -- ch. 12 Leaving care.

Summary: This revised edition details organisational systems and structures that are part of the assessment and planning process for looked after children. This is closely interwoven with discussions about their emotional development, educational, health and cultural needs and how these needs can be met through social work and a range of other services. The views of looked after children are highlighted through case studies and summaries of research findings, and the range of skills and knowledge necessary to support looked after children through the key events they experience, including loss, change and the development of new relationships, are explained and illustrated.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	Moylish Library Main Collection	362.7 COC (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002100517201
Standard Loan	Moylish Library Main Collection	362.7 COC (Browse shelf(Opens below))	2	Available		39002100517193

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This revised edition details organisational systems and structures that are part of the assessment and planning process for looked after children. This is closely interwoven with discussions about their emotional development, educational, health and cultural needs and how these needs can be met through social work and a range of other services. The views of looked after children are highlighted through case studies and summaries of research findings, and the range of skills and knowledge necessary to support looked after children through the key events they experience, including loss, change and the development of new relationships, are explained and illustrated.

Previous edition: 2007.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-235) and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

Acknowledgements (p. vii)
Introduction (p. ix)
Chapter 1 Policy and statistics (p. 1)
Chapter 2 The legal framework (p. 12)
Chapter 3 Pathways and placement types (p. 36)
Chapter 4 Assessment, care planning and contact (p. 54)
Chapter 5 Communication skills: Participation, children's rights and life story work (p. 67)
Chapter 6 Culture, ethnicity and faith: Working with children in care from diverse communities (p. 81)
Chapter 7 Disabled children (p. 94)
Chapter 8 Attachment, adversity and resilience (p. 106)
Chapter 9 Looked after children and mental health (p. 122)
Chapter 10 Education and health of looked after children (p. 144)
Chapter 11 Adoption and permanence (p. 170)
Chapter 12 Leaving care (p. 194)
Conclusion (p. 207)
Appendix 1 Professional capabilities framework (p. 209)
Appendix 2 Subject benchmark for social work (p. 210)
References (p. 218)
Index (p. 236)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Christine Cocker is a Principal Lecturer in Social Work at Middlesex University. She has over 20 years experience working in the fields of child protection and looked after children in both the statutory and voluntary sector. She is currently a trustee for the British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF) and is an independent member of a local authority adoption panel. Her current research is concerned with looked after children, fostering and adoption and sexuality and social work.
Lucille Allain is the Associate Dean, Social Work, at the University of East London. She has over 20 years child and families social work experience in child protection, looked after children and disabled children in the statutory sector. She is currently an independent member of a local authority fostering panel. Her current research is focused on social work practice with young people leaving care.
Professor Jonathan Parker is Deputy Dean for Research and Enterprise and Director of the Centre for Social Work and Social Policy at Bournemouth University. With colleagues, he developed the Centre of Social Work and Social Care Research and is former vice-chair of the Joint University Council Social Work Education Committee.
Greta Bradley was a senior lecturer in social work at the universities of York and Hull. Her academic interests continue to be in community care, workforce studies and international social work. Her most recent research was on aspects of sustainable practice in social work, with particular reference to supervision. Her current interests are also in sustainable environmental developments and related issues. Greta is a former Editor of Practice and is aboard member of the European Journal of Social Work.