Educating children and young people in care : learning placements and caring schools / Claire Cameron, Graham Connelly and Sonia Jackson

By: Cameron, Claire [author]Contributor(s): Connelly, Graham [co-author] | Jackson, Sonia [co-author]Material type: TextTextPublication details: London, England ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, c2015Description: 256 pages ; 23 cmISBN: 9781849053655Subject(s): CHILDREN -- INSTITUTIONAL CARE -- EDUCATION -- GREAT BRITAIN | FOSTER CHILDREN -- EDUCATION -- GREAT BRITAIN | CHILDREN WITH SOCIAL DISABILITIES -- EDUCATION -- GREAT BRITAIN | CHILDREN WITH SOCIAL DISABILITIES -- EDUCATION | FOSTER CHILDREN -- EDUCATION | CHILDREN -- INSTITUTIONAL CARE -- EDUCATIONLOC classification: LC 4096.G7 .C36 2015
Contents:
1. Bringing education into care placements and bringing care into schools -- 2. Legislation supporting the education of children in care in the UK: principles and provisions -- 3. An educational journey: children in care in context -- 4. Creating and sustaining a learning placement -- 5. Informal education -- 6. Supporting education in the care environment -- 7. Early years education in foster care -- 8. Caring schools -- 9. What happens when mainstream school isn't right -- 10. Staying in education: 16-19 -the muddle and the prospects -- 11. Going to university from care -- 12. Supporting recent migrants -- 13. Putting it all together: taking a strategic approach.
Summary: Bringing together research and practice on the theme of the educational well-being of children in care, this book aims to help professionals to improve these children's potential for educational attainment.
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Gen. Ed - CEAS General Circulation GC LC 4096.G7 .C36 2015 (Browse shelf (Opens below)) c.1 Available NULIB000011282

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Bringing education into care placements and bringing care into schools -- 2. Legislation supporting the education of children in care in the UK: principles and provisions -- 3. An educational journey: children in care in context -- 4. Creating and sustaining a learning placement -- 5. Informal education -- 6. Supporting education in the care environment -- 7. Early years education in foster care -- 8. Caring schools -- 9. What happens when mainstream school isn't right -- 10. Staying in education: 16-19 -the muddle and the prospects -- 11. Going to university from care -- 12. Supporting recent migrants -- 13. Putting it all together: taking a strategic approach.

Bringing together research and practice on the theme of the educational well-being of children in care, this book aims to help professionals to improve these children's potential for educational attainment.

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