Group Care Practice with Children Revisited

Social work and policy transfer: Reflections on introducing vocational qualifications in Vietnam

“…In Vietnam, all social service staff are referred to by the blanket use of the term 'social worker'. There is no dichotomy between social work and social care in Vietnam and, as a consequence, less tension between the social work task and social care task than might be found in the UK and many other Western countries (Fulcher and Ainsworth, 1985;Noddings et al, 1993). Similarly there is no difference in status between social work and social care activity.…”

School Improvement in the Marketplace: The Case of Residential Special Schools

“…Schools catering for this population are charged to respond to both welfare and justice imperatives and to provide an amalgam of education, nurture, control and treatment (Fulcher & Ainsworth, 1985). Such provision in Scotland has traditionally been located within a fairly inclusive and coherent national framework.…”

Group Care Practice with Children and Young People Revisited, Leon C. Fulcher and Frank Ainsworth (Eds.)

“…Twenty years later, responding to requests for new editions of Group Care for Children (Ainsworth & Fulcher, 1981) and Group Care Practice with Children (Fulcher & Ainsworth, 1985), Fulcher and Ainsworth culled 11 articles from each of the previous volumes and organized them into a single book, Group Care Practice with Children and Young People Revisited (2006). The original texts have been updated by the former contributors and include their reflections on the developments, or continued salience of their area of inquiry after more than two decades.…”