Harriet Ward & Richard Olsen 
Costs and Consequences of Placing Children in Care [PDF ebook] 

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It costs more to place a child in the care of a local authority than it does to send a child to a top boarding school, and there are substantial variations in costs both between and within authorities.
This book gets to the bottom of the costs of care and provides an insight into how these variations in cost relate to differences in children’s needs, and most importantly, whether higher costs reflect better services and better outcomes for children.
Costs and Consequences for Children Placed Away from Home draws from new original research, and considers the implications for best practice and future policy. It also features information about a newly pioneered resource: a fully workable decision analysis model designed for use in local authorities which uses historical data for each child to calculate the probable cost consequences of difference placement choices.
This book sheds light on how to calculate the financial and social costs of care, and will be invaluable to both social work managers and policy makers working in children’s services.

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface. Authors‘ note. 1. Introduction. 2. Identifying Local Authorities and Children for Exploring the Costs of Care. 3. The Development of Unit Costs for Social Care Processes. 4. Placement Patterns, Processes and Costs. 5. Children and Costs. 6. Need, Cost, Service and Outcome. 7. The Relationship Between Cost and Value: Children’s Views of the Value of Services. 8. The Cost Calculator for Children’s Services. 9. Conclusion: Cost Calculations and their Implications for Policy and Practice. References. Index.

Über den Autor

Lisa Holmes is Assistant Director of the Centre for Child and Family Research at Loughborough University, UK. She currently leads a programme of research to explore the cost of child welfare. With her colleagues, Jean Soper and Harriet Ward she led the development of the Cost Calculator for Children’s Services.

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Sprache Englisch ● Format PDF ● Seiten 288 ● ISBN 9781846428227 ● Dateigröße 2.6 MB ● Verlag Jessica Kingsley Publishers ● Ort London ● Land GB ● Erscheinungsjahr 2008 ● herunterladbar 24 Monate ● Währung EUR ● ID 2529840 ● Kopierschutz Adobe DRM
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