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A Bibliography of Family Placement Literature:
A guide to publications on children, parents and carers

	Price: £7.95 371 pages	BAAF, May 2005 ISBN 978-1-903699-30-0

The decade since publication of BAAF's last bibliography of family placement literature in 1994 has seen many changes in childcare legislation, policy and practice, including the advent of the Adoption and Children Act 2002.

This new annotated edition has been compiled by a research team based at the University of Salford. It provides a timely guide to the principal literature that has charted such developments.

The selective coverage of material published since 1993 includes references to publications focusing on legal issues, social work practice, research, family support, looking after children and pertinent themes within the fields of adoption and fostering, including books for children.

Reflecting the increasing complexity of this field, the compilers give particular attention to areas such as attachment and therapeutic help, disability, gender and sexuality, "race" and ethnicity and international perspectives.

This invaluable and handy reference will help social workers and managers, other child care professionals, journalists, researchers and students to find their way through this complicated field.

The research team headed by John Sudbery is based at the Centre for Social Work Research at the University of Salford. Katrina Wilson is Information Officer at BAAF.