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Meeting childrens needs through adoption and fostering
- Author:
- BRITISH AGENCIES FOR ADOPTION AND FOSTERING
- Publisher:
- British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 6p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Leaflet written for people considering adopting or fostering a child with special needs.
Disabled children in long-term fostering and adoption
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Adoption and Fostering, 24(4), Winter 2000, pp.57-59.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Describes how the BAAF Disability Project has undertaken research on the placement for permanency of disabled children through fostering and adoption. Undertook a questionnaire survey of local authorities in order to develop a more complete profile of disabled children and their placement needs. At this was the first study of its kind, additional data were sought including information about ethnicity and matching, the specific impairments of the children and young people, how the families were identified, reasons for delay and details about siblings.
Children and social exclusion: towards an understanding and practice that is more inclusive
- Editor:
- WHITE Keith J.
- Publisher:
- National Council of Voluntary Child Care Organisations
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 126p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Collection of papers focusing on policy and practice issues around children and social exclusion. Includes papers on: children and agency in academic and public policy discourses; social exclusion and the needs and rights of children; the value of inclusive participation in decision making; the development of Sure Start, an early intervention programme for young children in the UK; the work of the Pyramid Trust in promoting social inclusion through resilience; children and foster care; a Childline study on teenage pregnancy; difficulties for black and minority ethnic children in accessing services; an early years approach to social inclusion; and Barnardo's experience of removing disabling barriers and promoting inclusion in Somerset.
Consultation with children and young people who are being looked after: what it's like
- Authors:
- COONEY Margaret, WILKINSON Althea
- Publisher:
- Newham. Social Services Department
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 27p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Consulting with customers is fundamental to best value. This survey of children and young people in foster and residential care in the London Borough of Newham was undertaken within the remit of best value. It looked at what was important to them and in what way the service could be made better.
Kinship in foster care and its impact on grandmother caregivers
- Author:
- KOLOMER Stacey R.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 33(3), 2000, pp.85-102.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Kinship foster care programmes are designed to address the needs of relatives, usually grandparents, who have taken in children who have been removed form their homes voluntarily, or following a substantiated report of neglect and/or abuse. The author reviews the history of kinship foster care within the US and examines related research. Also, reports the findings of a survey of kinship foster care programmes nationwide and from qualitative interviews with nine grandmothers from New York City who were kinship foster care providers. Particular attention was paid in these surveys to the impact of kinship foster care on families caring for children with disabilities.
Problems in educating abused and neglected children with disabilities
- Author:
- WEINBERG Lois A.
- Journal article citation:
- Child Abuse and Neglect, 21(9), September 1997, pp.889-905.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
This article considers the theory that the reason the special education needs of abused or neglected children in foster care are not being met appropriately is that the services provided to them revolve around their need for protection. Concludes that in those instances where the child welfare agency did not take into account a child's educational needs when placing the child, but simply considered the appropriateness of the living situation to protect and care for the child, then the thesis appears to be borne out. However, some dysfunctions appear to be part of a routine lack of compliance with certain areas of special education law, and would seem to affect any child with similar disabilities and educational needs in the offending school districts.