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Costs and Consequences of Placing Children in Care

Costs and Consequences of Placing Children in Care

Hardcover

Series: Child Welfare Outcomes

Business GeneralPoverty & Social Work

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ISBN10: 1843102730
ISBN13: 9781843102731
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Published: Jul 15 2008
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.95 Width: 6.15 Depth: 9.38
Language: English

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 school, and there are substantial variations in costs both between and within authorities.

This book gets to the bottom of the costs of care and provides an insight into how these variations in cost relate to differences in children's needs, and most importantly, whether higher costs reflect better services and better outcomes for children.

Costs and Consequences for Children Placed Away from Home draws from new original research, and considers the implications for best practice and future policy. It also features information about a newly pioneered resource: a fully workable decision analysis model designed for use in local authorities which uses historical data for each child to calculate the probable cost consequences of difference placement choices.

This book sheds light on how to calculate the financial and social costs of care, and will be invaluable to both social work managers and policy makers working in children's services.

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