Clive Sellick
Biographic Data
| ID | 6180149 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Clive Sellick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Clive |
| FAMILY NAME | Sellick |
| SIGNATURE | SELLICK C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of East Anglia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Foster-Care Commissioning in an Age of Austerity
Considerable knowledge exists about the commissioning of children's fostering and adoption placements from external agencies within a context of shared corporate parenting. However, the impact of governmental change in the UK from May 2010, and particularly that of austerity measures, has yet to be determined. This article explores the experiences of foster-care providers in one English region in the year following the government's first Spending…
Independent Fostering Providers
The development of foster care as the placement of choice for children in care in Britain has been encouraged both in policy and practice. This has been accompanied by the severe reduction in residential care facilities for children and young people and the crisis in recruiting and retaining sufficient numbers of local authority approved and registered foster carers. The result has been a steady growth in the number of independent fostering provi…
Privatising Foster Care
Foster placements for children in care in the UK are being increasingly provided by non‐governmental organizations. However, although local authorities are purchasing almost one third of their required placements from these external agencies, the UK has not yet followed the examples of other English speaking countries. In parts of the USA and Australia all fostering and other child welfare services have been wholly outsourced or transferred from …
Commissioning Permanent Fostering Placements from External Providers
Local authorities across England and Wales have been purchasing fostering placements from the independent sector for their children in care since before the start of the New Labour era in the mid 1990s. Significant developments have occurred since then with a clear policy steer towards public sector commissioning of all children's, including fostering, services from private and voluntary organisations. This article explores, with reference to a r…
An Examination of Adoption Support Services for Birth Relatives and for Post-Adoption Contact in England and Wales
Support services for the birth relatives of adopted children have received far less research scrutiny than those for adopters and the children themselves. Clive Sellick reports the first stage ‘mapping’ survey of a government-commissioned study into birth relative support services and services supporting contact following changes in policy and legislation. The type, range and delivery of such services, commissioned or provided by local authority …
From Famine to Feast. A Review of the Foster Care Research Literature
Foster care has become the principal placement of choice for children and young people in public care in the United Kingdom (UK). This has been accompanied by a significant growth in its research scrutiny connected to a busy policy agenda, especially since 1997. With its increased usage, fostering has encountered both difficulties and developments. Children often have emotional and behavioural problems which strain their foster families to their …
Relational Contracting Between Local Authorities and Independent Fostering Providers
Policy developments since 1997 have changed the nature of foster care placements and related educational and therapeutic services. A succession of initiatives aimed at improving placement quality, choice and stability for children and their foster families has had two major impacts. The first is the significant expansion of independent fostering providers (IFPs) alongside local authority fostering agencies. The second has been the change in attit…
Fostering Adolescents
Opportunities and Risks
Local authorities in Britain have been purchasing foster placements and related services from independent fostering agencies or providers (IFPs) for many years. These are often made on an unplanned or ‘spot purchased’ basis and many local authorities have incurred significant budgetary overspends or been criticized for poor child-care practice. In parts of the USA and Australia, governments have required public authorities to ‘outsource’ all or m…
A Description and Analysis of Multi-Sectoral Fostering Practice in the United Kingdom
Foster care is the preferred placement option for children and young people in the public care system in Britain. In recent years, fostering has been the subject of extensive policy and research review and its practice and services have been widely examined. Although still provided principally within the public, local authority sector, there has been a significant growth in the use of independent fostering agencies and a steady use of the fosteri…
Independent fostering agencies uncovered
This paper presents the findings of a survey of independent fostering agencies (IFAs) in England, Scotland and Wales. Information was gathered about their operational arrangements, services, fees, staffing, foster carers and the children and young people in placement. This information is supplemented by an earlier evaluation of one large English IFA and by reference to the available relevant literature. The expansion of the IFAs has been generall…
Social Work in the British Isles
The Aims and Principles of Independent Fostering Agencies
Attitudes within the wider child placement public sector towards the place of independent fostering agencies remain largely negative, especially when expressed by local authority senior managers. Clive Sellick considers these alongside some other views that have emerged from the findings of relevant research. He goes on to examine the mission statements of 55 independent fostering agencies included in a recent national survey of the services, cos…
Independent Fostering Agencies
Independent fostering agencies have grown significantly in recent years in an era which encouraged the expansion of non-governmental welfare services. Clive Sellick reviews the practice and research literature in respect of this placement sector and its associated services to children and foster carers. He also summarises some major issues which have emerged from the recent evaluation of one independent fostering agency. The views of agency foste…
The use of institutional care for children across europe
This article describes the use and prevalence of institutional or residential care of children in Europe. It looks at systems in Western European countries and in countries of Central and Eastern Europe and discusses some of the difficulties in making comparisons across and within Europe. The author takes a wide view of the available literature, government and non-governmental statistics and case studies across the continent of Europe. Taking acc…
Messages from Australia
The Role of Social Workers in Supporting and Developing the Work of Foster Carers
The quality of relations between social workers and foster carers can virtually make or break a placement. Clive Sellick uses a wide range of social work literature to examine some of the conditions needed for these relations to succeed, both in the realm of practical organisation and in terms of individual qualities such as reliability, honesty, empathy and warmth
Independent Fostering Agencies
Independent fostering agencies have grown significantly in recent years in an era which encouraged the expansion of non-governmental welfare services. Clive Sellick reviews the practice and research literature in respect of this placement sector and its associated services to children and foster carers. He also summarises some major issues which have emerged from the recent evaluation of one independent fostering agency. The views of agency foste…
Independent Fostering Providers
The development of foster care as the placement of choice for children in care in Britain has been encouraged both in policy and practice. This has been accompanied by the severe reduction in residential care facilities for children and young people and the crisis in recruiting and retaining sufficient numbers of local authority approved and registered foster carers. The result has been a steady growth in the number of independent fostering provi…
Fostering Adolescents
Independent fostering agencies uncovered
This paper presents the findings of a survey of independent fostering agencies (IFAs) in England, Scotland and Wales. Information was gathered about their operational arrangements, services, fees, staffing, foster carers and the children and young people in placement. This information is supplemented by an earlier evaluation of one large English IFA and by reference to the available relevant literature. The expansion of the IFAs has been generall…
An Examination of Adoption Support Services for Birth Relatives and for Post-Adoption Contact in England and Wales
Support services for the birth relatives of adopted children have received far less research scrutiny than those for adopters and the children themselves. Clive Sellick reports the first stage ‘mapping’ survey of a government-commissioned study into birth relative support services and services supporting contact following changes in policy and legislation. The type, range and delivery of such services, commissioned or provided by local authority …
Social Work in the British Isles
The Aims and Principles of Independent Fostering Agencies
Attitudes within the wider child placement public sector towards the place of independent fostering agencies remain largely negative, especially when expressed by local authority senior managers. Clive Sellick considers these alongside some other views that have emerged from the findings of relevant research. He goes on to examine the mission statements of 55 independent fostering agencies included in a recent national survey of the services, cos…
Commissioning Permanent Fostering Placements from External Providers
Local authorities across England and Wales have been purchasing fostering placements from the independent sector for their children in care since before the start of the New Labour era in the mid 1990s. Significant developments have occurred since then with a clear policy steer towards public sector commissioning of all children's, including fostering, services from private and voluntary organisations. This article explores, with reference to a r…
Relational Contracting Between Local Authorities and Independent Fostering Providers
Policy developments since 1997 have changed the nature of foster care placements and related educational and therapeutic services. A succession of initiatives aimed at improving placement quality, choice and stability for children and their foster families has had two major impacts. The first is the significant expansion of independent fostering providers (IFPs) alongside local authority fostering agencies. The second has been the change in attit…
A Description and Analysis of Multi-Sectoral Fostering Practice in the United Kingdom
Foster care is the preferred placement option for children and young people in the public care system in Britain. In recent years, fostering has been the subject of extensive policy and research review and its practice and services have been widely examined. Although still provided principally within the public, local authority sector, there has been a significant growth in the use of independent fostering agencies and a steady use of the fosteri…
Privatising Foster Care
Foster placements for children in care in the UK are being increasingly provided by non‐governmental organizations. However, although local authorities are purchasing almost one third of their required placements from these external agencies, the UK has not yet followed the examples of other English speaking countries. In parts of the USA and Australia all fostering and other child welfare services have been wholly outsourced or transferred from …
Opportunities and Risks
Local authorities in Britain have been purchasing foster placements and related services from independent fostering agencies or providers (IFPs) for many years. These are often made on an unplanned or ‘spot purchased’ basis and many local authorities have incurred significant budgetary overspends or been criticized for poor child-care practice. In parts of the USA and Australia, governments have required public authorities to ‘outsource’ all or m…
The use of institutional care for children across europe
This article describes the use and prevalence of institutional or residential care of children in Europe. It looks at systems in Western European countries and in countries of Central and Eastern Europe and discusses some of the difficulties in making comparisons across and within Europe. The author takes a wide view of the available literature, government and non-governmental statistics and case studies across the continent of Europe. Taking acc…
The Role of Social Workers in Supporting and Developing the Work of Foster Carers
The quality of relations between social workers and foster carers can virtually make or break a placement. Clive Sellick uses a wide range of social work literature to examine some of the conditions needed for these relations to succeed, both in the realm of practical organisation and in terms of individual qualities such as reliability, honesty, empathy and warmth
The Role of Social Workers in Supporting and Developing the Work of Foster Carers
The quality of relations between social workers and foster carers can virtually make or break a placement. Clive Sellick uses a wide range of social work literature to examine some of the conditions needed for these relations to succeed, both in the realm of practical organisation and in terms of individual qualities such as reliability, honesty, empathy and warmth
Messages from Australia
The use of institutional care for children across europe
This article describes the use and prevalence of institutional or residential care of children in Europe. It looks at systems in Western European countries and in countries of Central and Eastern Europe and discusses some of the difficulties in making comparisons across and within Europe. The author takes a wide view of the available literature, government and non-governmental statistics and case studies across the continent of Europe. Taking acc…
Independent Fostering Agencies
Independent fostering agencies have grown significantly in recent years in an era which encouraged the expansion of non-governmental welfare services. Clive Sellick reviews the practice and research literature in respect of this placement sector and its associated services to children and foster carers. He also summarises some major issues which have emerged from the recent evaluation of one independent fostering agency. The views of agency foste…
Independent fostering agencies uncovered
This paper presents the findings of a survey of independent fostering agencies (IFAs) in England, Scotland and Wales. Information was gathered about their operational arrangements, services, fees, staffing, foster carers and the children and young people in placement. This information is supplemented by an earlier evaluation of one large English IFA and by reference to the available relevant literature. The expansion of the IFAs has been generall…
Social Work in the British Isles
The Aims and Principles of Independent Fostering Agencies
Attitudes within the wider child placement public sector towards the place of independent fostering agencies remain largely negative, especially when expressed by local authority senior managers. Clive Sellick considers these alongside some other views that have emerged from the findings of relevant research. He goes on to examine the mission statements of 55 independent fostering agencies included in a recent national survey of the services, cos…
A Description and Analysis of Multi-Sectoral Fostering Practice in the United Kingdom
Foster care is the preferred placement option for children and young people in the public care system in Britain. In recent years, fostering has been the subject of extensive policy and research review and its practice and services have been widely examined. Although still provided principally within the public, local authority sector, there has been a significant growth in the use of independent fostering agencies and a steady use of the fosteri…
Fostering Adolescents
Opportunities and Risks
Local authorities in Britain have been purchasing foster placements and related services from independent fostering agencies or providers (IFPs) for many years. These are often made on an unplanned or ‘spot purchased’ basis and many local authorities have incurred significant budgetary overspends or been criticized for poor child-care practice. In parts of the USA and Australia, governments have required public authorities to ‘outsource’ all or m…
From Famine to Feast. A Review of the Foster Care Research Literature
Foster care has become the principal placement of choice for children and young people in public care in the United Kingdom (UK). This has been accompanied by a significant growth in its research scrutiny connected to a busy policy agenda, especially since 1997. With its increased usage, fostering has encountered both difficulties and developments. Children often have emotional and behavioural problems which strain their foster families to their …
Relational Contracting Between Local Authorities and Independent Fostering Providers
Policy developments since 1997 have changed the nature of foster care placements and related educational and therapeutic services. A succession of initiatives aimed at improving placement quality, choice and stability for children and their foster families has had two major impacts. The first is the significant expansion of independent fostering providers (IFPs) alongside local authority fostering agencies. The second has been the change in attit…
An Examination of Adoption Support Services for Birth Relatives and for Post-Adoption Contact in England and Wales
Support services for the birth relatives of adopted children have received far less research scrutiny than those for adopters and the children themselves. Clive Sellick reports the first stage ‘mapping’ survey of a government-commissioned study into birth relative support services and services supporting contact following changes in policy and legislation. The type, range and delivery of such services, commissioned or provided by local authority …
Independent Fostering Providers
The development of foster care as the placement of choice for children in care in Britain has been encouraged both in policy and practice. This has been accompanied by the severe reduction in residential care facilities for children and young people and the crisis in recruiting and retaining sufficient numbers of local authority approved and registered foster carers. The result has been a steady growth in the number of independent fostering provi…
Privatising Foster Care
Foster placements for children in care in the UK are being increasingly provided by non‐governmental organizations. However, although local authorities are purchasing almost one third of their required placements from these external agencies, the UK has not yet followed the examples of other English speaking countries. In parts of the USA and Australia all fostering and other child welfare services have been wholly outsourced or transferred from …
Commissioning Permanent Fostering Placements from External Providers
Local authorities across England and Wales have been purchasing fostering placements from the independent sector for their children in care since before the start of the New Labour era in the mid 1990s. Significant developments have occurred since then with a clear policy steer towards public sector commissioning of all children's, including fostering, services from private and voluntary organisations. This article explores, with reference to a r…
Foster-Care Commissioning in an Age of Austerity
Considerable knowledge exists about the commissioning of children's fostering and adoption placements from external agencies within a context of shared corporate parenting. However, the impact of governmental change in the UK from May 2010, and particularly that of austerity measures, has yet to be determined. This article explores the experiences of foster-care providers in one English region in the year following the government's first Spending…
Political science (15 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (13 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Nursing (9 works) · Public relations (9 works) · Business (7 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (7 works) · Public Administration (7 works)