This valuable book brings together specific research on what accounts for the differences between children's homes and how practice can be better supported.
Policy and practice need role modelling from someone knowledgable, experienced and trusted with whom the young person and staff feel they have a relationship. This, it says, takes insight and patience. "It sounds very easy and it's not, it's very, very complex," reported one manager to the authors.
The manager's role is explored in five key areas: own role and identity; relation to staff; to young people as individuals and as a group; to networks outside of the home; and to their own organisation.
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