Social Pedagogy and Working with Children and Young People by Claire Cameron Peter Moss

Author:Claire Cameron, Peter Moss [Claire Cameron, Peter Moss]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, Politics, Social Services & Welfare, Social Science, Social Work
ISBN: 9780190937782
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2020-02-28T05:00:00+00:00

The role of relationships in public ‘care’

Attachment theory has had a formative influence on policy and service provision for children in public care (e.g. Rutter and O’Connor 1999), and, in line with this, foster care is prioritised for looked after children in England. For example, in 2009, 73 per cent of the 61,000 children in care were accommodated in foster care.3 This English emphasis on foster care is set out in a range of English policy guidance measures (e.g. Department for Education and Skills 2006; Department of Health 1998). As Sinclair and colleagues (2007, p.140) noted, it ‘fits the family agenda of children’s services’, and accords with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), which established the child’s right to live with a family. Overall, this emphasis on family, and on foster care, is intended to offer children and young people the best chance of benefiting from supportive caring relationships – including the provision of alternative attachment figures for children and young people whose attachment experiences have been disrupted by the circumstances that led to their placement in public care.

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