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New! Published May 2012!
The Teenager's Foster Carer's Handbook
Caring for young people in foster and residential care and helping them become adults
Fourth edition
Ann Wheal with Meral Mehmet
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For foster carers who are working with young people, this
manual is also useful for residential carers and for anyone helping
prepare young people for adult life. Acclaimed across three previous
editions, it is packed with detailed guidance about looking after young
people, being a foster carer, and living in a fostering household or
care home. It aims to:
 enable carers to meet the full range of a
young person’s needs
explain the caring roles and responsibilities
help all carers achieve the expectations placed on them and maintain standards.
A comprehensive guide that can be called on when just about anything arises, it has been developed:
to help carers make appropriate decisions, and answer the many questions young people may ask about their time ‘being looked after’
to help young people understand the present, face the future with confidence and, in time, become independent adults and move on.
Please note, the previous editions of this book were published under
different titles: Answers for Carers (1994, 1999); Young
People in Foster and Residential Care (2003). |
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