Social Work with Looked After Children

Third Edition

Christine Cocker - University of East Anglia, UK
Lucille Allain - Middlesex University London, UK

Series:
Transforming Social Work Practice Series

Courses:
Child & Family Welfare | Safeguarding and Child Protection | Social Work with Children & Families | Social Work with Children and Families

May 2019 | 352 pages | Learning Matters

This practical book looks at the experiences of children in need who live in state care and the social worker's role in working with them. This is a popular guide to this complex and demanding area of practice. There are chapters on communication and children's rights, life story work, attachment and culture, ethnicity and faith. Throughout the book there are sections on supporting legislation and policy for children in residential care, foster care, adoption and leaving care.

Key features include:

Practical links between theory and practice
Includes law and policy relevant to looked-after children
Information on understanding statistics
Contains lots of practical activities

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Chapter 1: Policy and Statistics

Chapter 2: The Legal Framework

Chapter 3: Pathways and Placement Types

Chapter 4: Assessment, Care Planning and Contact

Chapter 5: Communication Skills: Participation, Children's Rights and Life Story Work

Chapter 6: Diversity and Equality

Chapter 7: Disabled Children

Chapter 8: Attachment, Adversity and Resilience

Chapter 9: Looked After Children and Mental Health

Chapter 10: Education of Looked After Children

CHapter 11: Health of Looked After Children

Chapter 12: Adoption and Permanence

Chapter 13: Leaving Care

Very specific to LAC (as the title suggests!) I was just looking for something a little more broad. Useful when exploring strategies and methods for LAC and the process behind this though.

Miss Sunnie Sian

Teacher Education & Prof Development, CWA Assessor

July 5, 2022

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This book is very well written and is informative. It provides a good overview for social work students on looked after children

Miss Meldene Elder

Social Work Department, Havering College of Further and Higher Education

September 11, 2019

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this is One of the best little books I have read in relation to looked after children - clear detail going through all the different stages appropriate. Brilliant social work students and lecturers as well as professionals.

Mrs Toni Benaton

Britannia Mill Campus, Derby University

June 5, 2019

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A very accessible text, suitable for social work students preparing for and during practice placements. A particularly useful chapter focusing upon work with children with disabilities.

Mr Scott Massie

Social Work Department, Liverpool Hope University

July 10, 2019

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Wide-ranging coverage of an important area covered in an accessible way

Mr Robin Sen

Department of Sociological Studies, Sheffield University

July 15, 2019

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