Fostering Success: An Exploration of the Research Literature on Foster Care

K Wilson; I Sinclair; C Taylor; A Pithouse

Fostering Success: An Exploration of the Research Literature on Foster Care

K Wilson, I Sinclair, C Taylor, A Pithouse

Social Policy Research Unit

Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report

Abstract

Foster children have difficult early lives. Their needs are great, their educational performance can be poor, their childhoods in foster care and out of it are often unstable. In their adult lives they are at greater risk than others of a wide variety of difficulties. These 'facts' have led some to conclude that the state is not an adequate parent. This conclusion, however, ignores two possibilities. First, foster care may be better than the obvious alternative - that is, remaining at home. Second, the lives of fostered children can turn out well. Maybe this could become true for more of them.

Original language	English
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	Social Care Institute of Excellence
Publication status	Published - 2004

Publication series

Name	Knowledge Review
No.	no. 5

Keywords

looked after children
social care services issues

Access to Document

http://www.scie.org.uk/publications/knowledgereviews/kr05.asp

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