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The development of specialist fostering in Britain was one of the childcare success stories of the 1980s. Malcolm Hill, Richard Nutter, Donal Giltinan, Joe Hudson and Burt Galaway report here the main findings of a comparative survey of specialist fostering undertaken in 1992, which provides an up-to-date picture of current trends.

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What is the rhetoric and what is the reality of child care in the 1990s? Donal Giltinan questions how young people are faring in Scotland under a system which, he argues, is structurally unjust, where social welfare is governed by market principles, and in which the justice system is outdated and flawed.