Re: Placement within the extended family

[aron shlonsky <shlonsky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Anne,

We a curriculum entitled "Assessment, support, and Training for Kinship 
Care and Foster Care" that includes 3 studies, a lit review, and numerous 
training materials that I would be happy to send you (our cost + 
postage).  You might also be interested in a very extensive literature 
review that Susan Wells was involved in on quality of care in kinship 
homes, as well as an instrument to assess quality, newly available at CWLA.

Good Luck,


At 09:18 AM 3/15/00 +0000, you wrote:
>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
>
>tel  +44 (0) 114 225 2369
>fax+44 (0) 114 225 2430

Aron Shlonsky, MSW
Research Associate
UC Berkeley
Center for Social Services Research
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