The Key Texts: An Overview
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The lessons which today’s child care professionals need to learn.
The Leicestershire Inquiry 1992:by Andrew Kirkwood
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A classic example of weak and uninformed management, and the damage it permitted
Teenagers and the Social Work Services:-by John Triseliotis
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A thorough study of the effectiveness of services and what people thought of them.
Bullying: the Child’s View-by Jean la Fontaine
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What was learnt from children’s helplines
Speak of the Devil: Tales of Satanic Abuse in Contemporary England-by Jean La Fontaine
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The debunking of the popular myth of ritual abuse
War-handicapped Children:by Thérèse Brosse
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A report on the European situation after the Second World War
The Education of Children who are Looked After:By Felicity Fletcher-Campbell
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The positive impact of focusing on success
The Pindown Report:by Allan Levy and Barbara Kahan
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An investigation into a scandal arising from punitive methods of control
Closing children’s homes
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A research report which demonstrated children’s need for residential care
The Cleveland Report:by Judge Elizabeth Butler-Sloss
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A careful analysis of the investigation of large-scale alleged abuse
The Black Report:Chaired by Sir Harold Black
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A short well-argued report that shaped youth justice services in Northern Ireland
The Hughes Report: Chaired by Judge William H. Hughes
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The first report to take the views of children in care seriously
Crime – A Challenge to Us All :Chaired by Lord Longford
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A seminal Labour Party report which affected later policy-making
The Child, the Family and the Young Offender
A White Paper which caused debate about ways to deal with young offenders.
The Clyde Report on Homeless Children:Chaired by James Clyde
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A practical review with clear conclusions which shaped Scotland’s child care services.
The Kilbrandon Report:Chaired by Lord Kilbrandon
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An outstanding report which placed Scotland in the lead in the treatment of young offenders.
The Underwood Report :Chaired by J.E.A. Underwood
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A snapshot of thinking about maladjustment and the services which children needed
The Ingleby Report:Chaired by Viscount Ingleby
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A thorough review of the management of young offenders
The Key Texts: What Did Not Get In
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A review of the way the series was put together
‘The Second Curtis Report’ Chaired by Dame Myra Curtis
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An outstanding report which had a massive impact at a critical point
‘The Monckton Report’ by Sir William Monckton
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A report which highlighted foster care failures and the need for change
‘Britain’s Sixteen-Year-Olds’ by Ken Fogelman
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Following a cohort through adolescence
‘Growing up in Great Britain’ by Ken Fogelman
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Collating the findings and implications
‘Interim Report of the Care of Children Committee’ Chaired by Myra Curtis
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A landmark report which created national child care training
‘The Training and Recruitment of Staff for Residential Work’ by Clare Winnicott
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A systematic approach to the training of residential workers
‘Perinatal Mortality’ by Neville R Butler and Dennis G Bonham
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How factors such as social class affect babies’ survival
‘From Birth to Seven’ by Ronald Davie, Neville R Butler and Harvey Goldstein
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The importance of social class - and small schools
‘Troubled and Troublesome’ by Masud Hoghughi
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A comprehensive ground-breaking study of secure care
‘Group Work with Adolescent Girls’ by Arnold Critchley and Bridget Fann
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How devolving power can help young people to mature
‘The Adolescent Girl in Conflict’ by Gisela Konopka
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A study which highlighted the lack of research about girl offenders
‘A Home for the Heart’ by Bruno Bettelheim
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Lessons learnt from successful practice in residential treatment of disturbed behaviour
‘Consequences’ by Elizabeth Reinach and Glyn Roberts
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A study of the effectiveness of an observation and assessment centre
‘Leaving Care’ by Mike Stein and Kate Carey
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Indicators for success- and failure- in aftercare
‘An Experiment in Group Upbringing’ by Anna Freud and Sophie Dann
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How children from a concentration camp learnt to relate to adults
‘Dibs in Search of Self’ by Virginia Mae Axline
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A touching classic about creating the right space to let healing happen
‘Child Care and the Growth of Love’ by John Bowlby
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A child care classic, still quoted but contentious
‘Early Experience: Myth and Evidence’ by Ann Clarke and Alan Clarke
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A collation of child care research which challenged current thinking
‘Foster Home Breakdown’ by David Berridge and Hedy Cleaver
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A detailed study providing guidance to social workers on what works
‘Child Care Now: A Survey of Placement Patterns’ by Jane Rowe, Marion Hundleby and Louise Garnett
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Social workers’ views as to what works
‘Cottage Six: The Social System of Delinquent Boys in Residential Treatment’ by Howard W Polsky
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A neutral stance is impossible for a participant observer.
‘Adoption: A Second Chance’ by Barbara Tizard
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The benefits of adoption compared with foster care and return home
‘Expanding the Options in Child Placement’ by Anita Wiener and Eugene Wiener
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Research into adoption, fostering and residential care with surprising conclusions
‘Children Referred to Closed Units’ by Pat Cawson and Mary Martell
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The ignored facts about young people who were locked up
‘The Development of Secure Units in Child Care’ by G J Blumenthal
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An architect’s analysis of secure care
‘Controls from Within’ by Fritz Redl and David Wineman
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Ways to manage problem behaviour
‘The Other 23 Hours’ by Albert Trieschman, James Whittaker and Larry Brendtro
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Practical advice on residential child care
‘Young Children in Brief Separation’ by James and Joyce Robertson
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Lessons about what does - and does not - damage children
‘Residential Management as Treatment for Difficult Children’ by Donald W Winnicott and Clare Britton
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Research lessons learnt from residential child care practice
‘Children in Distress’ by Alec Clegg and Barbara Megson
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A landmark text on the impact of education on children in need
‘Children who Wait’ by Jane Rowe and Lydia Lambert
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A landmark study of children in long-term care
‘Wayward Youth’ by August Aichhorn
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Multiple messages about the care of young offenders from the days of Sigmund Freud
‘Love is Not Enough’ by Bruno Bettelheim
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Using the residential group to let children address their problems
‘Summerhill’ by A.S. Neill
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The thinking behind an unusual, innovative and lastingly influential institution
‘Spare the Child’ by David Wills
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The struggle to change a traditional approved school to offer relationship-based treatment
‘Adult Status of Children with Contrasting Early Experience’ by Harold M. Skeels
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Research showing how children respond to care, and that good care saves money
‘Some Theoretical Observations on Group Care’ by Martin Wolins
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A seminal text which makes sense of other theoretical and practice-based work
‘A Place Called Hope’ by Tom O’Neill
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Personal experiences of the care system shaped professional thinking.
‘Mr Lyward’s Answer’ by Michael Burn
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A classic observation of what made residential therapy work
‘Patterns of Residential Care: Sociological Studies in Institutions for Handicapped Children’ by Roy D King, Norma V Raynes and Jack Tizard
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Research which led to change and some unexpected findings
‘The Normalization Principle and its Human Management Implications’ by Bengt Nirje
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A short paper which had a massive impact
‘Continuity and Support Following Residential Treatment’ by Delores Taylor and Stuart Alpert
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Post-discharge success was shown to depend on family contact.
‘Children in Foster Care: A Longitudinal Investigation’ by David Fanshel and Eugene B Shinn
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A study of what makes for success in foster care
‘Homer Lane and the Little Commonwealth’ by Elsie Bazeley
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The classic example of a self-governing community for children
‘Road to Life’ by Anton Makarenko
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An honest account of learning to run a community for young offenders by experience
