Child Welfare Services : Developments in Law, Policy, Practice and Research

Jane Aldgate

ISBN 10: 1853023167 / ISBN 13: 9781853023163

Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers Feb 1996, 1996

Neuware - The contributors to this book provide a comprehensive review of child care policy and practice. They present evaluations and critiques of new or impending legislation and policies, and describe innovative services for children and young people who are deemed to be in need of protection, care or control as a result of abandonment, neglect, ill-treatment, offending or other difficulties. They also examine changes in adoption law, where such issues as placement policies in relation to children from ethnic minorities, intercountry adoption and the trend towards greater openness have become prominent and controversial in recent years. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781853023163

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The contributors to this book provide a comprehensive review of child care policy and practice. They present evaluations and critiques of new or impending legislation and policies, and describe innovative services for children and young people who are deemed to be in need of protection, care or control as a result of abandonment, neglect, ill-treatment, offending or other difficulties. They also examine changes in adoption law, where such issues as placement policies in relation to children from ethnic minorities, intercountry adoption and the trend towards greater openness have become prominent and controversial in recent years.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Malcolm Hill is Senior Lecturer in Social Work and Deputy Director of the Centre for the Study if the Child and Society at the University of Glasgow. Jane Aldgate OBE is Professor Emerita at the Open University and Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Edinburgh.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Child Welfare Services : Developments in Law...
Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers Feb 1996
Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
Einband: Taschenbuch
Zustand: Neu