Who Cares?: Young people in care speak out

Front Cover
Raissa Page, G.A. Clark
JKP, Jan 1, 1977 - Political Science - 63 pages

The reasons for children coming into care are many, so too are the services and provisions that structure their new lives. The manner in which these are applied to individual children varies beyond classification. Care means many different things to many different children, but every child in care today shares the common ground of an early experience of family distress and breakdown.

Written by a group of young people in care, this publications provided a platform from which they could speak freely about their hopes, aspirations, contentions, criticisms and fears. As well as detailing their experiences of public care, Who Cares? highlights those aspects of the system that need addressing to ensure that it meets the social, emotional and educational needs of all children and young people. Now available as an ebook.

 

Contents

Acknowledgements
5
1 How this book came to be written
9
2 Received into care
12
3 The stigma of care
16
4 Good points and bad
19
5 The personal cost of care
25
6 Making sense of care
29
7 Discipline punishment and violence
35
8 The sixmonthly review
40
9 Other kinds of care
44
10 When care ends
51
11 Who cares?
57
Charter of rights for young people in care
62
The things we want to change
63
Copyright

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