(DOWNLOAD) "Looked After Children: Can Existing Services Ever Succeed? Should the State Continue to Provide Substitute Care? with a New UK Government Likely to Implement a Number of Changes in Social Care Provision, Michael Little Challenges the Effectiveness of Current Services Provided by the State for Looked After Children (Essay)" by Adoption & Fostering # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Looked After Children: Can Existing Services Ever Succeed? Should the State Continue to Provide Substitute Care? with a New UK Government Likely to Implement a Number of Changes in Social Care Provision, Michael Little Challenges the Effectiveness of Current Services Provided by the State for Looked After Children (Essay)
- Author : Adoption & Fostering
- Release Date : January 22, 2010
- Genre: Family & Relationships,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 311 KB
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Should the state continue to provide substitute care? Are existing services the right ones? These may seem irrational questions to readers of Adoption & Fostering, but the political and financial fault lines of society are shifting. In the next five years there will be about 20 per cent less money and as yet, an unquantified increase in social need and greater freedom for local bodies to marshall limited resources for maximum impact. There will be questions asked of residential and foster care. My purpose is to pose those questions in their starkest form. Can we justify existing services? This is not the beginning of a campaign; I seek something more than polemic. I do not expect many people to agree with me nor many local authorities greatly to change policy, but it will be disappointing if the question is ignored. Ideally, a handful of local authorities and other agencies will seriously explore alternative strategies to orthodox social care provision.