Authors:Robert Harris, Professor Noel W Timms, Noel Timms,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: prison, thereabouts, hospital, care, accommodation, child, secure
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1993-05-13
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 0415062829
ISBN-13: 9780415062824

For some children secure accommodation seems to be the only way to control their disparate number of "problems". But why is this so, and from what criteria do social work professionals decide that a child should be put into secure accommodation? In Secure Accommodation in Child Care the authors use an empirical study of secure accommodation as a basis for an analysis of the relations between the state, the family and the "difficult" child. By looking at court procedures, social workers and the children themselves they explain how professionals and children make sense of their worlds, and how t