Walker, M. and Hill, M. and Triseliotis, J. (2002) Testing the limits of foster care : fostering as an alternative to secure accommodation. British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF). ISBN 9781903699188
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A research study into the issue of secure residential care versus foster care, looking specifically at the Community Alternative Placement Scheme, established to offer foster care to a group of young people who had hitherto been placed in residential care because they were thought to present difficulties too great for family placements to be appropriate - and hence were beyond the limits of foster care. The CAPS scheme offered training and a professional salary to foster carers, and proved that foster care can provide added value in the welfare of the child
| Item type: | Book |
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| ID code: | 10850 |
| Keywords: | testing, limits, foster care, fostering, secure accommodation , Social pathology. Social and public welfare |
| Subjects: | Social Sciences > Social pathology. Social and public welfare |
| Department: | Faculty of Education > Glasgow School of Social Work Faculty of Humanities And Social Sciences > Social Work |
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| Depositing user: | Strathprints Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Jan 2012 12:21 |
| Last modified: | 12 Mar 2012 10:54 |
| URI: | http://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/10850 |
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