Questioning Family Support -- Defining Family Support -- Researching Family Support -- Family Support as a Policy and Practice Challenge -- Developments in NI Child Care -- Family Support and the Children (NI) Order -- Fundamental Social Policy Choices -- Developing a Methodology for Researching Family Support -- Questions, Components and Findings -- Undertaking Formative Evaluation -- Areas of Investigation and Evaluation Questions -- Data Collection Kit -- Selection of Settings -- Research Management and Sampling -- Pilot and Policy Evaluation Criteria -- Lessons Learnt -- Necessary Organisation -- Overview of Practice Settings -- Expressed Purpose -- Organisation -- Improved Understanding of Organisation and Family Support -- Appropriate Needs -- Profile of the Households -- Employment Status -- Profile of the Primary Carers -- Contact with Family -- Reciprocal Support -- Family Functioning -- Legislative Context of 'In Need' -- Appropriate Need -- Services and Intervention -- Services Provided by the Settings -- Services Related to the Children Order -- Process -- Means -- Style -- Services and Intervention for Family Support -- Questions and Answers-An Agenda -- Questioning Family Support -- Understanding Family Support -- A Program for the Future
Summary
"Family Support provides an exploration of the link between individualized project evaluation and policy analysis. The conceptual and legislative frameworks which contextualize family support are explored in full. By drawing on existing literature and examining the political and legislative aspects of family support, the book aims to provide in one volume accessible and up to date information and discussion of key developments within family support, in the UK and internationally."--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-168) and index