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In need of attention
- Author:
- PHILPOT Terry
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 20.6.02, 2002, pp.34-35.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at the needs of birth children of parents who foster.
Fostering a child's recovery: family placement for traumatized children
- Authors:
- THOMAS Mike, PHILPOT Terry
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 156p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
The authors share their experience and knowledge of specialist therapeutic foster care. They explore the history, context and theory of fostering against the challenges of looking after children who have been traumatized though sexual or physical abuse. The book aims to encourage carers to be a therapeutic resource for the child, to give them consistency, and help them develop resilience.
The other side of The Wire
- Author:
- PHILPOT Terry
- Journal article citation:
- Young Minds Magazine, 103, December 2009, pp.22-24.
- Publisher:
- YoungMinds
The highly-popular television series The Wire depicts Baltimore's shootings and drug dealing. But there's a new regime working with children and the poor and things are not as they seem on the screen, as this interview with Molly McGrath, the city's director of social services, shows.
Intensive care
- Author:
- PHILPOT Terry
- Journal article citation:
- Young Minds Magazine, 86, January 2007, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- YoungMinds
The author reports on an innovative fostering project that uses therapeutic foster care, supported foster care, and family-based foster care to support children and young people with emotional and mental health problems. MIST (The Multi-disciplinary Intervention Service , Torfaen) is run by NCH Cymru, in partnership with Torfaen's education and social services authorities, Torfaen Health Board and the Gwent Health Care NHS Trust.
What works in adoption and foster care?
- Authors:
- SELLICK Clive, THOBURN June, PHILPOT Terry
- Publisher:
- Barnardo's
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 139p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Ilford
- Edition:
- Rev. ed.
This book reviews changes in policy and practice and features new material in the field of adoption, foster care and kinship care. According to the authors, this book is not a research summary, but a guide to what has been learned from research about what appears to work best in family placement. They include a wide range of studies in this review, including, longitudinal studies, snapshot studies, descriptive accounts of practice, single-case design or ‘biographical’ accounts, and value-based literature from the UK, Scandinavia, and North America, including Canada. It updates 'What works in family placement', published in 1996.
Family problems, family solutions: kinship care for children in need; an agenda for change
- Authors:
- PHILPOT Terry, BROAD Bob
- Publisher:
- De Montfort University. Children and Families Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 18p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Leicester
Kinship care could help to solve the crises in recruiting foster parents and address other problems within the care system, by providing an alternative supported placement for children within the child's own extended family (often a grandparent) or close friend. Kinship care is full-time care by family and friends for children in need who are known to social services departments, who can no longer live at home with their birth parents due to welfare reasons, such as drug misuse or neglect, and who would otherwise be taken into care. Kinship care can be either an alternative placement for children who would otherwise be taken into public care, or it can be a more preventive arrangement for children at the lower risk threshold point of being a child in need. It is usually the child's grandparent or aunt who is the kinship carer.
Private lives
- Author:
- PHILPOT Terry
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 22.11.01, 2001, pp.34-35.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The world of private fostering is one ruled by ad hoc agreements and unsupervised arrangements. It is also a world of which social services and government have little knowledge. The author explores a history of indifference and argues for action on private fostering to avoid deaths such as those of Victoria Climbie.