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Article: Costs and Consequences of Placing Children in Care.(Book review)
- Article from:
- Adoption & Fostering
- Article date:
- March 22, 2009
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Costs and Consequences of Placing Children in Care
Harriet Ward, Lisa Holmes and Jean
Soper Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2008
288 pages 39.99 [pounds sterling]
This book addresses issues of particular relevance to policy makers and managers in children's services: the high costs of placing children in foster and residential care coupled with often poor outcomes; the extensive variation between local authorities in spending on children in care; and the relationship between needs, costs, services and outcomes. In the context of the White Paper Care Matters: Time for change and the Children and Young Person's Act 2008, it provides a timely ...