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Fostering matters

Social Work and Social Sciences Review

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Title Fostering matters
 
Creator Harlow, Elizabeth
Blackburn, Foluke
 
Subject foster care;foster carer's perspectives;stakeholders;service users;professionalisation;foster carer training
 
Description The views of stakeholders are increasingly seen as important to the delivery of services. The perspectives of foster carers therefore, can contribute to the organisation, management and provision of placements to children who are looked after by the local authority. This paper reflects the views of Foluke, a member of the symposium ‘Fostering Matters’ which took place at the University of Salford in March 2007. Foluke is not only an experienced foster carer and trainer of foster carers, but also an experienced social worker with current responsibility for educating social work practitioners. There is no suggestion that the views expressed in this paper represent the ‘truth’ of being a foster carer. On the contrary, it is appreciated that the opinions of foster carers will vary in relation to their social characteristics (such as class, gender, ‘race’ or ethnicity), their personal biographies and the context in which their opinions are elicited. Nevertheless, this paper contains important reflections on a main theme of the symposium - the professionalisation of foster care. Furthermore, comments on the quality of practice in relation to assessment and training may be of value to those responsible for the continued improvement in standards.
 
Publisher Whiting & Birch Ltd
 
Date 2012-12-20
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://journals.whitingbirch.net/index.php/SWSSR/article/view/472
10.1921/swssr.v13i2.472
 
Source Social Work and Social Sciences Review; Vol 13, No 2 (2007): Number 2 / 2007; 48-56
1746-6105
0953-5225
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://journals.whitingbirch.net/index.php/SWSSR/article/view/472/508
 
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