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Family support-linking project : evaluation to policy analysis / John Pinkerton, Kathryn Higgins, Paula Devine.
LIBRA HV751.A6 P565 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pinkerton, John, 1953-
- Series:
- Evaluative research in social work
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Child welfare--Great Britain.
- Child welfare.
- Great Britain.
- Families.
- Families--Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- x, 172 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, 2000.
- Contents:
- 1 Questioning Family Support 1
- Defining Family Support 8
- Researching Family Support 18
- 2 Family Support as a Policy and Practice Challenge 24
- Developments in NI Child Care 26
- Family Support and the Children (NI) Order 33
- Fundamental Social Policy Choices 38
- 3 Developing a Methodology for Researching Family Support 48
- Questions, Components and Findings 49
- Undertaking Formative Evaluation 51
- Areas of Investigation and Evaluation Questions 52
- Data Collection Kit 53
- Selection of Settings 60
- Research Management and Sampling 62
- Pilot and Policy Evaluation Criteria 65
- Lessons Learnt 67
- 4 Necessary Organisation 70
- Overview of Practice Settings 71
- Expressed Purpose 75
- Organisation 81
- Improved Understanding of Organisation and Family Support 93
- 5 Appropriate Needs 96
- Profile of the Households 99
- Employment Status 103
- Profile of the Primary Carers 106
- Contact with Family 110
- Reciprocal Support 112
- Family Functioning 115
- Legislative Context of 'In Need' 116
- Appropriate Need 118
- 6 Services and Intervention 120
- Services Provided by the Settings 121
- Services Related to the Children Order 122
- Process 125
- Means 132
- Style 136
- Services and Intervention for Family Support 140
- 7 Questions and Answers-An Agenda 143
- Questioning Family Support 144
- Understanding Family Support 149
- A Program for the Future 153.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1840148454
- OCLC:
- 43031375
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