David Berridge

Educational achievements for children in care are significantly poorer than for the general school population. This book explores why this is and how to enable…

Despite developments in policy and practice, the academic outcomes for children and young people who are looked after by local authorities continues to be poorer…

Who lives in children's homes and why? Who works there? How are the homes run? How effective are they? In this book, based on a…

This ebook illustrates the day to day work of providing social services to adolescents: it describes the context of that task, its complexities, it's limitations,…

This ebook reports on the unprecedented and radical step taken by Warwickshire Social Services Department when, in 1986, it closed the last of its children's…