Finding Lost Childhoods : Supporting Care-Leavers to Access Personal Records

This book explores care-leavers' access to their personal records. People who grew up in care in previous decades may know little about their family nor understand why they were placed in care nor how decisions were made about their lives. Personal records can be a source of this information. M...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Murray, Suellen (Author)
Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Subjects
Social sciences.
Childhood.
Adolescence.
Social groups.
Families.
Families > Social aspects.
Social policy.
Social service.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783319571386
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-57138-6
Physical DescriptionXIII, 216 p. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part 1: The significance of care records
  • 1. Making sense of a childhood in care
  • 2. Making sense of care records
  • 3. The impact on care-leavers of information in their records
  • Part 2: Accessing records
  • 4. Helping care-leavers to find their records
  • 5. Supporting care-leavers to receive their records
  • 6. Facilitating care-leavers' access to other sources of information and to family
  • Part 3: Supported release
  • 7. Good practice in care-leavers' records release
  • 8. Conclusion.

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