
- 160 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Quality Matters in Children's Services brings together authoritative research to explore critical concerns for those working with vulnerable children, young people and their families. Subjects covered include reunification, stability and wellbeing, kinship care, educating vulnerable young people, child protection, domestic violence and parental substance misuse, the participation of disabled young people and advocacy services.
Mike Stein discusses key issues for policy and practice in the development of quality services including identifying and sustaining quality through involving stakeholders, integrated working and quality services, the development of policies, procedures and organisational processes and carrying out quality assessments, training and workforce reform.
This book is essential reading for practitioners, senior staff, commissioners, managers and anyone involved in developing quality children's services.
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Table of contents
- FRONT COVER
- Quality Mattersin Childrenās Services: Messages from Research
- Contents
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- FOREWORD BY BARONESS DELYTH MORGAN
- The Overview Process
- Quality Matters
- Coming and Going
- Going Home
- Going to Kinship Care
- Safeguarding and Promoting
- Caring and Educating
- Advocating and Participating
- Quality Matters inChildrenās Services
- APPENDIX A THE RESEARCHERSā SUMMARIES OF THEIR PROJECTS
- APPENDIX B THE ADVISORY AND IMPLEMENTATION GROUP (AIG)
- REFERENCES
- INDEX
- back cover