Working with Children in Care: European Perspectives

How does residential care in England compare with that of other European countries?   What is social pedagogy, and how does it help those working with children in care?  How can child care policy and practice be improved throughout the United Kingdom?  This book is written against the background of the gross social disadvantage suffered by most looked-after children in England. It compares European policy and approaches – from Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany and the Netherlands – to the public care system in England. Drawing on research from all six countries, the authors analyze how different policies and practice can affect young people in residential homes. A particular focus is on the unique approach offered by social pedagogy, a concept that is commonly used in continental Europe.  The book compares young people's own experiences and appraisals of living in a residential home, and the extent to which residential care compounds social exclusion. Based upon theoretical and empirical evidence, it offers solutions for current dilemmas concerning looked-after children in the United Kingdom, in terms of lessons learned from policy and practice elsewhere, including training and staffing issues. Working with Children in Care is key reading for students, academics and professionals in health, education and social care who work with children in residential care.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Petrie,Pat

Boddy,Janet

Cameron,Claire

Wigfall,Valerie

Simon,Antonia

Alternative Medicine

Open University Press

<p>This new Policy Press Short presents innovative international research into how the term “environment” is understood within families and how that plays out in everyday lives. Based on a study that involved creative qualitative work with families in India and the United Kingdom, it shows how environmental practices are negotiated in families, and how they relate to values, identities, and society. Through that analysis, we begin to see the ways in which families and childhood are constructed as sites for intervention in debates about climate change.</p>

Environment in the Lives of Children and Families: Perspectives from India and the UK

Walker, Catherine

Phoenix,Ann

Vennam, Uma

Parenting & Relationships

Policy Press

<p>Understanding what 'family' means - and how best to support families - depends on challenging politicized assumptions that frame 'ordinary' families in comparison to an imagined problematic 'other'. Learning from the perspectives of people who were in care in childhood, this innovative book helps redefine the concept of family. Linking two longitudinal studies involving young adults in England, it reveals important new insights into the diverse and dynamic complexity of family lives, identities and practices in time - through childhood and beyond.Paving the way for future policy and practice, this book makes an important contribution to the theorization of family in the 21st century.</p>

Thinking Through Family: Narratives of Care Experienced Lives (Sociology of Children and Families)

Bristol University Press

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