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Havoc in the home
- Author:
- RICKFORD Frances
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 30.9.93, 1993, p.9.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
An SSI review of adoption services in Calderdale, Kirklees and North Yorkshire highlighted the fact that SSDs provide inadequate post-adoption services - to adopted people, birth families and adopters. Examines why this is the case.
Adopting a solution
- Author:
- RICKFORD Frances
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 29.10.92, 1992, p.12.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
The adoption law review appears to have lived up to the expectations of many in the field, but concern is being raised at the government's attitude to the report.
Good on paper
- Author:
- RICKFORD Frances
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 1.2.01, 2001, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The adoption white paper could be set to revolutionise the long-term care of many looked after children. The government has promoted it as radical, but the author questions whether this is the case.
Holding on to the past
- Author:
- RICKFORD Frances
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 1.6.00, 2000, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
In mid-1960s one baby in 25 was given up for adoption. Reports on how today, many of those babies' mothers want to know why no alternatives were offered to them, and an assurance that young women today will not be forced to give up their children.
Keep a love-light shining
- Author:
- RICKFORD Frances
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 9.4.92, 1992, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Despite a growing realisation that children need their birth families, and pressures from the Children Act, restoration work within adoption and fostering is undervalued. Reports on research carried out at Bristol University, and work by the Barnardo's New Families Project in Colchester.
Tell it like it is
- Author:
- RICKFORD Frances
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 10.8.00, 2000, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
To kick off Community Care's Children First Adoption Campaign this article tackles the misapprehensions surrounding the field and argues that adoption is a difficult choice which does not always work out for the best.
Takeover bid under fire
- Author:
- RICKFORD Frances
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 3.2.00, 2000, p.12.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The Home Office has put in a bid to take over adoption from the Department of Health and run the service through a new agency. Reports on an adoption expert's responses to this proposal.
Hit and myth
- Author:
- RICKFORD Frances
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 9.12.93, 1993, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The White Paper on adoption was published amidst publicity about a return to "common sense". There are concerns that its proposals place too much emphasis on the feelings of potential adopters and too little on the welfare of the children.
Adopting sound policy
- Author:
- RICKFORD Frances
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 27.9.01, 2001, pp.36-37.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Argues that toeing the line on targets is less to the Adoption and Permanence Task Force than tackling the crisis in child care.
Keeping in touch
- Author:
- RICKFORD Frances
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 4.4.96, 1996, pp.32-33.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
There is evidence that children in local authority care need contact with their families but, the author discovers, negotiating contact arrangements is easier said than done.