Kinship care
Subtitle: fostering effective family and friends placements
By: Elaine Farmer and Sue Moyers.
Contributors: Moyers, Sue, 1948-
Series: Quality matters in children's services series
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9781843106319
Subjects: Kinship care; Foster home care; Foster children -- Services for; Foster children -- Family relationship; Children -- Legal status, laws, etc
Description: Children are frequently cared for by relatives and other kin, often outside official child welfare systems, when parents are unable to care for them themselves. This book compares formal kinship care to foster placements in order to ascertain which children are placed with kin, what their circumstances are and how they fare.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.