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Who cares? : young people in care speak out / the Young People's Working Group ; [written by] Anne ... [et al.] ; edited by Raissa Page and G. A. Clark.

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Format:
Book
Government document
Author/Creator:
Young People's Working Group.
Contributor:
Page, Raissa, 1932-2011.
Clark, G. A.
National Children's Bureau.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Foster children--Great Britain.
Foster children.
Youth--Institutional care--Great Britain.
Youth.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (66 p.)
Place of Publication:
London : National Children's Bureau, 1977.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
Originally published in 1977, this best-selling book detailed the experiences of young people in residential care and highlighted issues that are still of relevance in today's care system
Contents:
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 How this book came to be written; 2 Received into care; 3 The stigma of care; 4 Good points and bad; 5 The personal cost of care; 6 Making sense of care; 7 Discipline, punishment and violence; 8 The six-monthly review; 9 Other kinds of care; 10 When care ends; 11 Who cares?; Charter of rights for young people in care; The things we want to change
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
ISBN:
1-283-01260-X
9786613012609
1-905818-67-X
OCLC:
758697588

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