Residential Child Care: Collaborative Practice

Residential Child Care: Collaborative Practice is an innovative book which addresses the specific issue of modern residential child care whilst promoting collaborative practice within a wider social work setting. The book analyses the role of organisations, field workers, parents, teachers, and children, and stresses how these interpersonal and interprofessional relationships are crucial to ensuring children's well-being.

This book

• is founded on fundamental social work principles, values, and ethics;
• encourages collaborative practice by identifying how the roles of each profession differ;
• seeks to dispel the 'barriers' that inhibit effective collaboration;
• draws upon examples of good practice;
• includes the views and experiences of children and young people; and
• integrates relevant aspects of the social work benchmark statement.

Comprehensive and accessible, Residential Child Care: Collaborative Practice includes learning objectives, activities, and further reading to help aid students' understanding. The book successfully balances its theoretical content with a focus on practice, making it an invaluable resource for social work and social care students, trainee residential workers, and professionals who have an interest in working with looked-after children.