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Returning children home from public care

The briefing aims to give people who provide and use social care services an overview of research evidence by describing what it tells us about:

• how social workers make decisions about whether or not to return looked-after children to their birth parent/s
• effective approaches to deciding which children are likely to benefit from return home, and to helping parents and children when they do
• predictors of stability and positive wellbeing following return home.

Details
Published: 
2012
Author: 
June Thoburn
Julie Robinson
Beth Anderson
Publisher: 
Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)