Overview
Gives practitioners and policymakers direction on how best to support care-leavers in accessing their records
Makes an original contribution via the analysis of former care residents, supplemented with material from providers and policy makers
Argues that care-leavers' records’ importance should be reflected in the way that they are made accessible and released
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Significance of Care Records
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Supported Release
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book explores care-leavers’ access to their personal records. People who grew up in care in previous decades may know little about their family nor understand why they were placed in care nor how decisions were made about their lives. Personal records can be a source of this information. Murray posits that it is crucial that those releasing these records understand their significance. Taking a person-centred approach, the book is based on the moving life history accounts of people who have sought their records. Finding Lost Childhoods highlights the importance of records to their identity formation, recounts what they discovered about themselves and their family, and discusses the consequences of finding this information.
With a focus on policy and practice implications, the book will be of particular interest to those engaged in the work of releasing records, as well as care-leavers themselves, professional bodies, and students and scholars with an interest in social work, policy studies, welfare studies and youth work.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Suellen Murray is Associate Professor and Deputy Dean Research in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Finding Lost Childhoods
Book Subtitle: Supporting Care-Leavers to Access Personal Records
Authors: Suellen Murray
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57138-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-57137-9Published: 11 August 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86085-5Published: 04 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-57138-6Published: 01 August 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 216
Topics: Childhood, Adolescence and Society, Children, Youth and Family Policy, Social Care, Family