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What works in adoption and foster care?

	Price: £12.95	Barnardo’s/BAAF 2004           ISBN 978-1-904659-00-6

Barnardo’s has been promoting an evidence-based approach to children’s services since the mid-1990s. During the past 10 years it has commissioned leading academics and expert practitioners to review research about ‘What works?’ for children in a wide range of subject areas.

Since the publication of the original version of What works in adoption and foster care? (What works in family placement?), there has been renewed interest in family placement, its effectiveness and value for money. This revised edition reviews changes in policy and practice and features new material in the field of adoption and foster care and on kinship care.

What works in adoption and foster care? will assist managers and practitioners in family and childcare social work to make decisions based on sound evidence about where to place children and what sort of practice is likely to bring about the desired outcome for children, birth relatives, foster carers and the adoptive family. Three specific questions are addressed:
what does research indicate are the factors likely to be associated with positive outcomes?
how can practice be evaluated and what outcome measures can be used?
what does research not tell us or where are the messages from research unclear or contradictory?