Managing Children's Homes

Developing Effective Leadership in Small Organisations

Leslie Hicks, Ian Gibbs, Helen Weatherly and Sarah Byford

Part of the Costs and Effectiveness of Services for Children in Need series

Paperback: £25.00 / $49.95

2007, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 224pp
ISBN: 978-1-84310-542-8, BIC 2: JKSB1 JKS

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Managing Children's Homes focuses on leadership, effective management, the allocation of resources, and ensuring positive outcomes for young people in residential care.

The book develops an interdisciplinary understanding of what needs to be taken into account when establishing and maintaining good practice on behalf of young people living in children's homes. The authors explain the considerable variation in quality achieved by children's homes and how this relates to management style, working environment and staff structures. The skills and qualities that make effective managers of homes are explored. These, along with factors such as the provision of resources, are investigated to demonstrate how to attain a successful children's home environment and longer-term achievement for looked-after children.

Based on innovative, DfES-funded, interdisciplinary research, this book will be essential reading for staff and managers in children's care homes and will also be of interest to students, policy-makers and directors of social services.

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Author information

• Leslie Hicks
• Ian Gibbs
• Helen Weatherly
• Sarah Byford

Subject areas

• Working with Children and Families
• Health, Social Work and Social Care

Keywords

• adoption,
• carers,
• child protection,
• children,
• children's rights,
• fostering,
• residential care,
• safeguarding children,
• social policy,
• social work

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