BAAF Evidence to Select Committee

See, for example:

Hussell C Monaghan B , ‘Child care planning in Lambeth’, Adoption & Fostering, Vol 6 Number 2 1982.

Various aspects of recruiting substitute families for handicapped children are considered in a workshop report: Family placement for mentally handicapped children, British Institute of Mental Handicap, 1980.

On the provision of specialist foster families for older children see, for example: i) Tapp S, ‘Fostering children on remand’ Adoption & Fostering, Vol 3 number 2 1979. ii)Hazel N, A bridge to independence, Basil Blackwell 1981; Shaw M and Hipgrave P, Specialist fostering, Batsford (forthcoming).

One example of using residential care to prepare children for placement is outlined in: Shinegold D , ‘Residential role’, Adoption & Fostering, Vol 4 Number 2 1980.

i) A joint local authority/voluntary agency family recruitment scheme for black children is outlined in: James M, ‘Finding the families’, Adoption & Fostering, Vol 5 Number 1 1981. ii) Examples of some of the preventive services being developed by voluntary agencies can be found in: ‘Action in Prevention—Family, Community and Day Care Centres’, Annual Review 1979-80, Church of England Children's Society.

See p22 and preceding sections of: District Audit, The Provision of child care: a study at eight local authorities in England and Wales—Final Report, 1981.

Wilkinson A , Children who come into care in Tower Hamlets, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, Research and Information Unit, 1982.

See, for example: Adcock M White R Rowlands O , The administrative parent: a study of the assumption of parental rights and duties, research report to the Department of Health and Social Security, 1982.

Rowe J Lambert L , Children Who Wait, ABAA, 1973.

Rowe Lambert , IBID, found that of the children in their study (ie under the age of 11 years) one in four had moved three or more times. Adcock, White and Rowlands, op cit, found that of the children studied for whom parental rights had been assumed by the local authority, 11 per cent had had 10 or more placements in and out of care, and 31 per cent had had four or more.

‘One child who had had 14 placements by the time he was five and by the age of 10 was considered … to be totally unable to make any attachment to an adult’, Adcock M and White R, Terminating parental contact, ABAFA, 1980.

‘When I got older I realised that nobody actually had any plan at all. That hurt’–a young woman who had been in care quoted in: Parker R , Planning for deprived children, National Children's Home 1971.

See p6, Bacon R Rowe J , The use and misuse of resources, ABAFA, 1978.

‘It will be appreciated that the children had been admitted to an institution to protect them from the damage of remaining with their own parents in a discordant, disruptive and malfunctioning family. Accordingly it is chastening to realise that this policy seems to have had such a devastatingly bad effect on the young people's functioning as parents'. Rutter M, Quinton D and Liddle C, ‘Parenting in two generations: Looking backwards and looking forwards’ in Families at Risk, N Madge Ed (in publication).

Adoption of Children in Northern Ireland, Report of the Children and Young Persons Review Group, HMSO Belfast, June 1982.