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Description for Coming to Care
hardcover. This book provides fascinating insights into the factors that influence why people enter and leave care work, their motivations, understandings and experiences of their work and intersection of it with their family lives. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JKSN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Coming to Care offers an original contribution to the understanding of care and care work in children's services in Britain in the early twenty first century. It provides fascinating insights into the factors that influence why people enter and leave care work, their motivations and the intersection of their work with their family lives. Focusing on four diverse groups of workers - residential social workers, foster carers, family support workers and community childminders - who take on the care of vulnerable children and young people in the context of relatively low levels of qualifications, the book examines their life ... Read more
Coming to Care offers an original contribution to the understanding of care and care work in children's services in Britain in the early twenty first century. It provides fascinating insights into the factors that influence why people enter and leave care work, their motivations and the intersection of their work with their family lives. Focusing on four diverse groups of workers - residential social workers, foster carers, family support workers and community childminders - who take on the care of vulnerable children and young people in the context of relatively low levels of qualifications, the book examines their life ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Policy Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Bristol, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781861348500
SKU
V9781861348500
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About Julia Brannen
Julia Brannen is Professor in the Sociology of the Family, June Statham is a reader in education and family support, Ann Mooney is senior research officer and Michaela Brockmann is a research officer, all based in the Thomas Coram Research Unit, University of London, UK.
Reviews for Coming to Care
" 'Coming to Care' is a timely examination of the work and family lives of people who provide care for children and young persons deemed to be vulnerable. The book offers an important critique of popular notions about 'work-life balance'..." Gender and Education, Vol 20:5, 2008. "The authors' adoption of a combined biographical approach has resulted in a rich data ... Read more