Permanent Family Placement and the Children Act 1989: Implications for Foster Carers and Social Workers

Department of Health Introduction to the Children Act 1989 HMSO, 1989.

See especially Aldgate J , ‘Foster children at school: success or failure’, Adoption and Fostering, 14 4; 1990 and Thoburn J, Success and failure in permanent family placement, Gower, 1990.

See Department of Health, Patterns and outcomes in child placement, HMSO 1991 and Fratter J Rowe J Sapsford D Thoburn J , Placing children with new families, BAAF, 1991.

For a useful discussion of this see Fratter J in Mullender A (ed.) Open adoption, BAAF, 1991.)

See Fratter . (note 3), and Borland M, O'Hara G, Triseliotis J, ‘Placement outcomes for children with special needs’, Adoption and Fostering, 15 2, 1991.

See Thoburn J (forthcoming) ‘Balancing child welfare with the concept of partnership’, Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law.

See the BAAF training pack to be published shortly on reviews, and the Family Rights Group training pack, The Children Act 1989: working in partnership with children and families.

Rowe J Lambert L , Children who wait, London, ABAA, 1973.