Residential and Boarding Education and Care for Young People

<p>This innovative book identifies the key elements of good management and practice common to all residential child care settings - whether hospital unit boarding school children's home special school or custodial care establishment - and important variations between the different settings. Using a model developed under the auspices of the Rowntree Foundation it provides managers with a coherent framework for understanding the different facets of their role and the outcomes they are aiming to achieve. Major components of the model are:<br>· the environment<br>· the legal framework<br>· developmental issues<br>· time-related issues.<br><br>In each case the salient factors for practice and management are identified and discussed. <em>Good Practice Education and Residential Care of Children</em> offers a model which can be readily applied to training assessment of standards inspections and research and development. Based on the latest research and reflecting the national drive towards evidence-based standards it will be an invaluable support to managers in training and practice.</p>