Title Significant harm : unravelling child protection decisions and substitute care careers of children : perspectives of child welfare workers and biological parents / Elizabeth Fernandez

Published Aldershot ; Brookfield, USA : Avebury, [1996] ©1996

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Description xviii, 305 pages ; 23 cm Contents 1. Children, families and the state -- 2. Theoretical orientations -- 3. Methodology and profile of children and families -- 4. Coming into care: The accounts of workers and biological parents -- 5. The workers' context of decision making -- 6. Representation and analysis of the placement careers of the children -- 7. Contact between children and their biological parents after placement -- 8. Parental responses to separation -- 9. Parents' experience and evaluation of placement decision-making -- 10. Child welfare agenda for 2000 Analysis Children Abuse New South Wales Abused children - Services for Child welfare - Research - Australia Family Social Work Foster Care - Research - Australia Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-305) and index Subject Abused children -- Care -- Australia. Abused children -- Services for. Child welfare -- Research -- Australia. Child welfare -- Australia -- Longitudinal studies. Family social work. Foster children -- Family relationships -- Australia -- Longitudinal studies. Foster children -- Family relationships -- Australia -- Longitudinal studies. Foster children -- Australia -- Longitudinal studies. Foster home care -- Research -- Australia. Social work with children -- Australia -- Longitudinal studies. LC no. 96084019 ISBN 1859722105

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