Advocating for Children Looked After: Promoting Positive Identities in Professional Practice [Paperback]

Acknowledgements

Introduction

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Chapter 1: Who am I?

Chapter 2: Stigma and labels

Chapter 3: Adverse Childhood Experiences

Chapter 4: Trauma and neurodiversity

Chapter 5: Attachments and relationships

Chapter 6: Who are my family and what do they do?

Chapter 7: Government agenda

Chapter 8: Everyday superheroes

Chapter 9: Teacher or facilitator

Chapter 10: Change in vision

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Index

This accessible guide provides a detailed, practical understanding of how to support Children Looked After (CLA), exploring identity and challenging views. It is key reading for all professionals including those within education and social work, as well as those on undergraduate, postgraduate, and professional childhood courses.

This accessible guide provides a detailed and practical understanding of how to support Children Looked After (CLA), exploring concepts surrounding identity and the key role professionals can play by becoming advocates for these children. With a mixture of theory, reflection and application to practice, Advocating for Children Looked After considers contemporary topics, from adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), labelling and stigma, to the relationships surrounding Children Looked After.

Embedded within the chapters are positive everyday practices, case studies and dialogues, all of which help to create a safe space for children to develop their own sense of self. Throughout the book, outdated views are challenged and replaced with the voices of children and young people themselves, and strategies and opportunities are provided for the reader tols+