Abstract
When children die at the hands of their parents the inevitable questions are raised, such as ‘Why wasn’t he taken to somewhere safe?’ or ‘Why was she allowed to go home?’ The solution to child abuse seems so simple — children must be rescued from abusive parents and placed with carers who will not harm them. Unfortunately the answer is not so easy. This chapter examines issues of substitute care, focusing on the child’s perspective. It does not aim to cover all aspects of substitute care; there are already comprehensive works on the topic (e.g. Thoburn, 1988; Rose 1991; Parker et al., 1991).
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Doyle, C. (1997). Substitute Care. In: Working with Abused Children. Practical Social Work. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14589-8_7
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