Placement within the extended family

[A.E.Hollows@xxxxxxxxx (Anne E. HOLLOWS\(HSC\))]

There appears, anecdotally, to be an increasing tendency in some parts of the
UK for children who cannot live safely at home to be placed within the extended
family. Part of this is policy driven, from the perspective of maintaining the
children within the family; increasingly however it appears to be the
consequence of declining resources - both to finance the eplacements and of
substitute family carers. Social workers undertaking post qualifying education
are concerned that some of these placements are inappropriate but are anxious
to be able to argue from theory, rather than what they acknowledge to be a
largely intuitive basis. I would be glad to hear from anyone with sources of
literature, research etc. 

Anne Hollows
Principal Lecturer in Social Work
School of Health and Community Studies
Sheffield Hallam University
Collgiate Crescent Campus
Sheffield S10 2BA

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