Vulnerable Children
DfES Research: the Work and Family Lives of Workers Caring for Vulnerable Children
31/05/07 16:55 Filed in: Social Care
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This research examined the work
and family lives of residential social workers,
foster carers, family support workers and
community child minders who care for children
placed with them by social services. It explored
how over the life course, such workers come to,
and either do, or do not, sustain a career in
care work. The study comprised interviews with
managers in local authorities, children’s
services and children’s homes; a postal survey
of 305 workers in several English local
authorities; 24 biographical case study
interviews; and a telephone survey one year
later with the postal survey respondents
exploring loss from and movement within the
childcare workforce.
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