Description
Book SynopsisPart of a series, this is a guide to developments in welfare services for black families in the early 1980s. It describes practical ways of meeting the black population's needs and the implications for the families and those who work with them.
Table of ContentsPart 1 Under-fives and their day care - ways of assessing and improving practice: Afro-Caribbean children in day care, Asrat-Girma; black children in a day nursery - some issues of practice, Shama Ahmed; cultural action for the under-fives - training strategies developed by the Building Blocks project, Judith Koetter et al; practice in a community nursery for black children, Syble Morgan; training responses, Maureen O'Hagan; policies for day care, Clifford Headley. Part 2 Black children in care: transracial placements - conflicts and contradictions, John Small; some psychological models of black self-concept, Jocelyn Emama Maxime; reviewing black children in care, Juliet Cheetham; the experience of Bradford Social Services Department, Mike Mennell. Part 3 Work with women and girls: an Asian mothers' self-help group, Samar Sheik; cultural racism in work with Asian women and girls, Shama Ahmed; an Asian women's refuge, Surinder Guru. Part 4 Work with young black offenders: developing an anti-racist intermediate treatment, John Pitts et al; towards a training for an anti-racist intermediate treatment, John Pitts et al.
