The Child's Journey Through Care: Placement Stability, Care Planning, and Achieving Permanency

This book focuses on children's journeys through the care system, from voluntary admission into care, through complicated and often long court proceedings, in pursuit of Care or Freeing Orders. Problems that arise from taking cases through the courts are examined, together with tensions that may arise between judicial and social work decision-making.

The Child's Journey Through Care discusses in full:

• the emotional and behavioural problems of looked-after children and elaborates on care-pl...