Children In care
- Created by: reneesimba
- Created on: 03-04-18 12:46
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- Children in Care
- reasons children taken away from their family homes because
- The parents are unable to look after the child because they are ill or in hospital
- There is evidence of neglect
- Evidence of abuse
- Residential care
- They are short term care within a family structure as many kids within them have never experienced that structure
- Special support or treatment might be needed which only the trained staff in these homes can deal with
- Children in the same family have to be kept together
- Abuse has occurred in their family making it unsuitable to live with another
- Foster care
- When a child is fostered they are placed with another family that will care and support them and treat them as part of the family
- Foster parents do not have legal rights over the child
- They are paid an allowance for their expenses in caring for their child. It can be long term or short care
- More children placed here as it is thought to be better as:
- It gives the child of a family structure and opportunity to develop relationship with family members
- Allows the child to develop as an individual
- Given more attention as to where there are many children in residential care
- Foster parents have to
- Allow access to child's biological parents if it is in child's best interests
- Bringing child up in their own religion
- Adoption
- Adoption is legal process where adults become legal parents of a child that is not biologically theirs.
- Parents have legal rights and responsibilities
- Less babies for adoption due to social changes: increasing birth control, improved support for single mothers out of wedlock
- Society much more accepting of babies born outside marriage
- reasons children taken away from their family homes because
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