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Professor Keith Brown

During recent years there has been much public and media attention on childcare, in particular, the care and support of vulnerable children.

Foster care is an important way in which society attempts to help very vulnerable children, and key to this being a positive and productive experience for the child are the foster parents. But behind the scenes is always a supervising social worker whose role starts with the assessment of prospective foster parents through to the supervision and support of foster carers.

This new text by Helen Cosis Brown has been written to provide advice, support and guidance to all social workers working in – or aspiring to work in – this area of practice. As the author points out, this is an area that has previously received little academic reflection and, thus, this book is an important addition to the Post-Qualifying Social Work series.

On behalf of all social workers working in the fostering field I wish to sincerely thank Helen for the wisdom, insight and expertise she has shared with us in the pages within – this text really is a tremendously important contribution.

All the books in the Post-Qualifying Social Work series are written to inspire and support social work practice, with the ultimate aim of ensuring that vulnerable members of society experience the best possible social work service.

This is another such text written to inspire quality social work practice and I am sure that it will motivate you in your professional practice.

Professor Keith Brown

Director of the National Centre for Post-Qualifying Social Work, Bournemouth