Exploring foster carer perceptions and experiences of placements and placement support.
Summary: Reports the findings of a qualitative study exploring foster carers’ experiences of placements and placement support, including their views of services. Based on interviews with eight foster carers with fostering experience ranging from two to 22 years. Results suggested that the support foster carers received played an important role in determining the success of placements and there were interactions between this support and foster carers’ relationship with social workers and the child. Successful placements occurred when both relationship cycles worked effectively in the context of appropriate support.
| Publication details: Adoption and Fostering Volume 35 Issue 5, 2011 pp 38-49 |
| Authors: Samrai, Amandeep, and Beinart, Helen, and Harper, Peter |
