Some children seem to present parents, teachers, social workers and courts with such serious or disparate problems that holding them in secure accommodation is apparently the only way to control them. How this comes about, and by what criteria social workers and courts help them make these difficult decisions, are the subjects of this intriguing and innovative book. In Secure Accommodation in Child Care, Harris and Timms use a major empirical study of children in secure accommodation as a basis for an analysis of relations between the state, the family and the difficult child. By synthesizing...
Some children seem to present parents, teachers, social workers and courts with such serious or disparate problems that holding them in secure accommo...
