184 pages
244 x 170mm
ISBN: 978 1 85856 409 8
January 2008

This book is about children facing major difficulties of some kind, and requiring care outside their families. It shows that child and youth care needs to be professionalised and indicates how this can be done.

Part One discusses policies, theory and societal developments such as transforming government services for children; the UK's contribution to child care research and policy development; and a holistic approach to child welfare. Part Two describes professional developments, special projects or concrete initiatives in child care. It provides case studies of the participation of children in their care, and of the preservation and rehabilitation of family relationships among children in residential care. It looks at crisis centres and at new developments in foster care.

Contributors include James Anglin (Canada), Jürgen Blandow and Michael Winkler (Germany), Roger Bullock, Adrian Ward and Keith White (England), Bojun Dekleva and Alenka Kobalt (Slovenia), Emmanuel Grupper, Irit Miro and Anita Weiner (Israel), Josef Schiepl and Bettina Terp (Austria).

This book is essential reading for everyone who works directly with children and young people who require care outside their families. It will also be of value to their managers, and to researchers and academics, inspectors, government and NGO officials and others concerned about the care of children.

Dr Friedhelm Peters is Professor at Erfurt University, Germany.

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