Table of Contents

List of Case Studies. About the Authors. Foreword. Acknowledgements. Introdcution. 1. A Spectrum of Support: Child Placement Research, Theory and Practice. 2. What Works in Short-Term and Intermediate Foster Care? 3. What Works in Long-Term or Permanent Family Placement? 4. Social and Policy Developments and a New Research Agenda. References. Index.

About the Author

Clive Sellick is Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of East Anglia. He previously worked as a social worker and manager in various child and family social work settings. He has researched and written widely in the field of foster care. June Thoburn is Professor of Social Work at the University of East Anglia. She has worked as a senior social worker in England and Canada and has been teaching and researching child welfare since 1980. She was awarded the CBE in 2002 for services to social work.Terry Philpot is a journalist and writer on social policy and was formerly editor of Community Care. He has written and edited several books, and writes regularly for The Times Higher Education Supplement, The Tablet and other publications. He has won several awards for his journalism.