{"product_id":"coming-to-care-julia-brannen-9781861348500","title":"Coming to Care: The Work and Family Lives of Workers Caring for Vulnerable Children","description":"\u003cp\u003eComing to Care offers an original contribution to the understanding of care and care work in children's services in Britain in the early twenty first century. It provides fascinating insights into the factors that influence why people enter and leave care work, their motivations and the intersection of their work with their family lives. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Focusing on four diverse groups of workers - residential social workers, foster carers, family support workers and community childminders - who take on the care of vulnerable children and young people in the context of relatively low levels of qualifications, the book examines their life course as care workers. It explores: the range of factors that attract people into care work, including the biographical circumstances and the serendipitous factors that propel them into the work; their understandings of and commitment to the work; and how their identities as care workers are created and sustained. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The book is highly relevant to current policy debates about the development of children's services and reforming the childcare workforce and offers a range of practical recommendations. It should provide interesting reading to policy makers and service providers, as well as academics and students in the childcare and social care fields.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Julia Brannen,June Statham,Ann Mooney\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1861348509\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781861348500\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Policy Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/10\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.18lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2008 pg. 139","brand":"Julia Brannen","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48136933212415,"sku":"9781861348500","price":127.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_20241899-2bff-4eaa-b6e2-258c8f5fd2e1.jpg?v=1770165421","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/coming-to-care-julia-brannen-9781861348500","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}