Christine Cocker & Lucille Allain 
Social Work with Looked After Children [PDF ebook] 

This practical book looks at the experiences of children in need who live in state care and the social worker′s role in working with them. This is a popular guide to this complex and demanding area of practice. There are chapters on communication and children′s rights, life story work, attachment and culture, ethnicity and faith. Throughout the book there are sections on supporting legislation and policy for children in residential care, foster care, adoption and leaving care. 



Key features include:

• Practical links between theory and practice


• Includes law and policy relevant to looked-after children


• Information on understanding statistics


• Contains lots of practical activities

Tabla de materias

Chapter 1: Policy and Statistics

Chapter 2: The Legal Framework

Chapter 3: Pathways and Placement Types

Chapter 4: Assessment, Care Planning and Contact

Chapter 5: Communication Skills: Participation, Children′s Rights and Life Story Work

Chapter 6: Diversity and Equality

Chapter 7: Disabled Children

Chapter 8: Attachment, Adversity and Resilience

Chapter 9: Looked After Children and Mental Health

Chapter 10: Education of Looked After Children

CHapter 11: Health of Looked After Children

Chapter 12: Adoption and Permanence

Chapter 13: Leaving Care

Sobre el autor

Lucille Allain is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Middlesex University and a Programme Leader for the social work pre-qualifying programmes. She has 18 years of child and family social work experience in child protection, looked after children and disabled children. Her experience spans working as a social worker, manager and in commissioning and developing new services. Her current research focuses on social work practice and young people leaving care.