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Acknowledgements | ||
1 | Introduction: The Emergence of a New Policy | 1 |
The aims of the study | 3 | |
Social work, ethnicity and 'race': some dominant perspectives | 5 | |
A critique of previous research | 11 | |
A policy of 'black homes for black children' | 19 | |
2 | Power and Perspective: Key Methodological Issues | 27 |
The case study approach | 27 | |
Strategies of data collection | 30 | |
3 | A New Approach to Child Placement: The Diffusion of Same Race Fostering Practice | 49 |
Out-facing the two faces of power: strategies for change | 50 | |
4 | Arrival on the Local Scene: The Interpretation of Ideas into Practice | 65 |
Formal policy and unofficial practice guidelines | 66 | |
Changes in practice | 70 | |
Pressure for change | 72 | |
The main obstacles to change | 76 | |
The impetus for change | 79 | |
The relationship between policy and practice | 82 | |
Conclusion | 83 | |
5 | Discussing the Details: Consciousness-Raising within the Fostering Team | 86 |
Factors affecting acceptance within the Fostering Section | 88 | |
Strategies for change | 90 | |
Factors affecting acceptance within the local community | 97 | |
Team ethos | 102 | |
Race Awareness Training | 108 | |
Power and conflict | 109 | |
6 | A Documentary Account: Analysis of Team Meeting Minutes | 110 |
Developments up to the first conference of the Association of Black Social Workers and Allied Professions | 111 | |
The first ABSWAP conference: a turning point? | 114 | |
The fate of the Black Home Finding Unit | 116 | |
The development of a policy of 'racial matching' | 121 | |
'The Black Campaign' | 124 | |
The demise of the 'Black Action Group' | 130 | |
Influences on the development of policy | 132 | |
7 | Supply and Demand: The Shaping of Recruitment Procedure | 137 |
Why black people did not apply in the past | 137 | |
Changes in the recruitment procedure | 140 | |
Reactions to the campaign within the black community | 146 | |
Conclusion | 150 | |
8 | Assessment and the Challenge to Cultural Pluralism | 151 |
The concept of 'family' | 152 | |
The conventional family and fostering | 155 | |
The pluralist challenge | 158 | |
Cultural pluralism: a double-edged dilemma? | 170 | |
9 | Inter-Cultural Skills, Professionalism and Commonsense | 175 |
The views of the social workers | 175 | |
Applicants' views and perceptions | 177 | |
Personality and commonsense | 182 | |
Conclusion | 184 | |
10 | Public Policy, Private Space: The Inherent Conflict in Assessment Policies | 187 |
Differences in black/white understandings of 'public' and 'private' | 188 | |
Managing self-presentation: black/white profiles of competence in the fostering process | 196 | |
Private shame or public injustice? | 197 | |
Conclusion | 198 | |
11 | A New Departure: Group Assessment and Training | 201 |
The 'Mixed Group' | 203 | |
The 'All Black Group' | 212 | |
Conclusion | 218 | |
12 | An Ambivalent Station | |
The Contradictory Position of the Black Co-Worker | 220 | |
A challenging role? | 221 | |
Ambiguous role definition | 223 | |
The relevance of ethnicity | 231 | |
Conclusion | 241 | |
13 | A Discriminatory Dilemma: Examining the Inter-Personal Dynamics of Black Co-Worker Presence | 246 |
The optimum strategy for the applicant | 247 | |
The foster parent as an ally? | 249 | |
Conclusion | 253 | |
14 | Conclusion: Cultural Politics and Fostering Practice | 255 |
Responses to the challenge of 'racial matching' | 256 | |
Responses to the challenge in the borough of the case study | 257 | |
Collective organisation and the influence of ABSWAP | 258 | |
Moving into the 1990s | 271 | |
Appendix 1: Postal questionnaire to the London boroughs | 275 | |
Appendix 2: Organisations consulted during the study | 281 | |
Bibliography | 282 | |
Name Index | 306 | |
Subject Index | 312 |
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