CYP Now - Resources: Review - Views on foster care from the carers

This book is the result of a six-year odyssey by the authors on the foster care findings of three linked studies, based around seven local authorities.

Foster Carers is the first of a trio of books that look at what motivates foster carers to do the work they do, and the reasons they stop doing it.

Sinclair, Gibbs and Wilson have sought to evaluate what can be done to help foster carers, from support and training, to looking at how different local authorities value foster carers.

It has a wealth of information on what foster carers need, and recognises the vital task they perform. It also looks at the stresses and strains of fostering and what discourages foster carers and their families.

The style is readable and sensibly put together, making it a useful tool to promote the value of foster carers to policy makers in need of evidence-based reasoning.

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