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© British Association of Social Workers

Family Placements for Adults and Children—A Double Comparison

MALCOLM HILL, Deputy Director1, RICHARD NUTTER, Professor2, DONAL GILTINAN, Professor3, JOE HUDSON2 and BURT GALAWAY, Professor4

1Centre for the Study of the Child and Society, University of Glasgow

2Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary

3Manager of the BAAF Scottish Centre Edinburgh

4Faculty of Social Work, University of Namibia

Correspondence to Dr M. Hill, Centre for the Study of the Child and Society, Lilybank House, Bute Gardens, Glasgow G12 8RT.

Summary

This article compares family placements for adults with those for children with special needs. Findings are presented of a postal survey which was carried out in the UK and closely based on a survey undertaken shortly before in the USA and Canada. There were a number of similarities between the programmes for adults and specialist schemes for children, despite their different purposes, origins and contexts. Although outcomes are often good, both types of project have worrying levels of breakdown, whilst a number of adult schemes are precarious in status and resourcing.


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