Lisa Holmes
Lisa Holmes is Assistant Director of the Centre for Child and Family Research at Loughborough University, UK. She currently leads a programme of research to explore the cost of child welfare. With her colleagues, Jean Soper and Harriet Ward she led the development of the Cost Calculator for Children’s Services.
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Therapeutic Residential Care for Children and Youth
Therapeutic Residential Care For Children and Youth takes a fresh look at therapeutic residential care as a powerful intervention in working with the most troubled…
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Understanding Costs and Outcomes in Child Welfare Services
Today's child welfare services operate under a limited supply of resources which are being stretched by economic cuts and an increasing number of referrals to…
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Costs and Consequences of Placing Children in Care
It costs more to place a child in the care of a local authority than it does to send a child to a top boarding…