Adoption has undergone a transformation in the last decade or so, and has brought with it new and pressing issues such as the adoption of older children from care; contact with birth families after adoption; trans-racial placement; single-person adoption; and the need for a post-adoption support service. Over recent years, the Department of Health has commissioned a range of studies on adoption. They have since set up a working party - largely comprising practitioners - to review the results of these studies and draw out the implications for practice and policy.

Explores the economic, religious, political and personal forces that led to some 80,000 British children being sent to Canada between 1867 and 1915. This book provides a vivid look at one aspect of the history of child welfare practices.

Drawing on a lifetime of research in the history of child welfare, Roy Parker s collection of twelve new and revised essays explores the political, economic, legal, and ideological aspects of child care and children s services since the mid-1850s. Parker examines how the services for some of society s most vulnerable children have developed, as well as how well they have met and whether they continue to meet the needs of those children. An essential look at the changes and continuities within welfare policy, this book provides a historical resource that will inform the study of social work...