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How nurture protects children: nurture and narrative in work with children, young people and families |
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London: Responsive Solutions, 2010. 150p. |
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Foster carers strive to build positive attachment experience for children and young people whilst managing the sometimes conflicting needs of the regulatory process that governs the looked after system. This book is a series of reflections about contemporary issues in the public care and education of children, young people and their families. It is not an academic text, its main strength is its use of practice based experiences and observations. The book is partly a critique of a culture where control prevails over welfare, regulation over professional judgement and protocol over process. The argument is that rather than making children safer the dominating principles of current policy have serious implications for organisations, direct practice and training and have actually served to make children more at risk. However, the book also describes an alternative way of thinking. In this model, the development of positive relationships is at the forefront of policy and practice and the education and training of professional workers is shaped by an emphasis on child development and the profound significance of attachment and nurture. A key aim is to show that if practice in both social care and education settings is based on ideas from attachment theory and the principles of nurture then it is more likely to be effective in protecting vulnerable children, young people and their families. |
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book; |
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attachment; attachment theory; child development; child protection; foster care; foster carers; foster children; social work approaches; |
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www.scie-socialcareonline.org.uk/profile.asp?guid=e8b65696-6bda-4e64-807b-e1ee6715ff60 |
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