Full Description
Drawing on the personal experience of library staff and young people, this essential guide provides guidance on how libraries can best support children and young people in care.
Exploring practices that have proved beneficial and effective, and explaining why, this book gives readers the necessary tools to develop good practice in their own library to support vulnerable young people. Chapters include:
The support libraries have provided in the past;
An overview of the social policy background;
How libraries are responding today;
The barriers faced by care-experienced children and young people;
Case studies that draw on the experience of individuals abroad.
This practical guide is a vital resource for librarians seeking to better understand and support children and young people in care.
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Definitions and Scope of the Book
Chapter 2: A Brief Introduction to the Social Policy Background
Chapter 3: What have Libraries provided in the past?
Chapter 4: What Barriers are there to the take-up of Library Services by Care-experienced Children and Young People and their Carers, and how can we begin to dismantle these?
Chapter 5: How are Libraries responding today?
Chapter 6: What can we learn from elsewhere?
Conclusions - and what more can we do?
Appendix 1: More Information about the Care System
Appendix 2: 'Right to Read' and other PHF-supported initiatives
References
Index
