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The theory and practice of adult placements
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 17.05.07, 2007, pp.40-41.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
This article highlights key areas that practitioners and commissioners should consider in the area of adult placements.
Improving outcomes for people in shared living services
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 3p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Shared living schemes are one way of providing more personalised services. They offer care and support to people who use services, usually older people and those with learning disabilities, in family homes. This At a glance presents the key messages from the SCIE study, 'Improving outcome for service users in adult placement - commissioning and care management', drawing out the messages for local authority managers, care managers and commissioners.
Parent and child fostering
- Authors:
- ADAMS Paul, DIBBEN Elaine
- Publisher:
- British Association for Adoption and Fostering
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 154p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
The number of parent and child arrangements with foster carers is growing rapidly. Some local authorities have established dedicated teams to deal with this and independent fostering agencies in England suggest that these cases constitute up to 10 per cent of their total referrals. There is a history of ad hoc arrangements to allow teenage parents to remain with their baby. However, the new demand includes the placements of adults with their children, usually in the context of care proceedings. This is a specialist area of work, given the complexity around the legal status of the parent and child, as well as the uniqueness of having adult parents in the foster home. BAAF's practice guidance, based on the recent statutory guidance for England, brings together advice and good practice to support these emerging services. It focuses on the practical challenges and issues and includes information on: the legal context of parent and child arrangements; messages from research and serious case reviews; types of parent and child fostering; assessment and approval; training and supporting foster carers; care planning and placement planning; assessing parents and good enough parenting; and developing policies and procedures. The guidance is illustrated with case examples from both local authority and independent agencies. Appendices contain examples of assessment forms, placement agreements, and support schemes.
Adult placements and person-centred approaches
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Place of publication:
- London
This web-based practice guide is aimed at local authority and health commissioners, practitioners, service users, adult placement scheme staff and carers in England. The guide is based on information from a practice survey that identified emerging and developing practice; a literature review that pulled together the key literature on adult placements; and an analytical report that identified the key messages from these two surveys. It identifies relevant national minimum standards, and highlights findings and case examples from the practice survey, as well as from the literature where available. The Guide contains practice points, including areas of conflict, on-going debate about roles and responsibilities, and the application of person-centred approaches to adult placements. It contains sections on: being person-centred, assessment and referral, matching and introductions, monitoring and review, moving on, adult placement carers, advocacy; and person-centred planning. (Previously published as SCIE Practice Guide no. 4).
Community care statistics 2009-10: social services activity report, England
- Author:
- NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE. Information Centre for Health and Social Care
- Publisher:
- National Health Service. Information Centre for Health and Social Care
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 92p., tables
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
This statistical release presents information on referrals, assessments and packages of care, including information relating to residential care placements and residents during 2009-10 in England. Includes tables and figures throughout.
Adopting: best care; inspection of statutory adoption services in Northern Ireland; summary
- Author:
- NORTHERN IRELAND. Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety. Social Services Inspectorate
- Publisher:
- Northern Ireland. Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 16p.
- Place of publication:
- Belfast
Presents summary results of inspection of statutory adoption services in Northern Ireland. Contents include: provision of services; organisation and management of services; staffing; publicity and information work with children identified for adoption or placement; work with and for birth parents; work with adopters; work with adopted adults; adoption panels; access to advice and services.
Adopting: best care; inspection of statutory adoption services in Northern Ireland
- Author:
- NORTHERN IRELAND. Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety
- Publisher:
- Northern Ireland. Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 215p.
- Place of publication:
- Belfast
Presents the results of inspection of statutory adoption services in Northern Ireland. Contents include: provision of services; organisation and management of services; staffing; publicity and information work with children identified for adoption or placement; work with and for birth parents; work with adopters; work with adopted adults; adoption panels; access to advice and services.