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Foster carers’ receptiveness to new innovations and programmes: an example from the introduction of social pedagogy to UK foster care

Abstract:: Foster carers characterise a highly diverse workforce that shares the choice to provide a home and family for children who can no longer reside with their family. This diversity makes supporting and providing for carers’ training needs a complex task for fostering services. Understanding what might influence their engagement in training would be useful. This article outlines themes related to foster carers’ engagement with social pedagogy, using data from the Head, Heart, Hands (HHH) programme evaluation. Analysis of interviews with seventy-six foster carers over a period of three years is presented. The emerging themes were used to devise an illustrative typology of receptiveness to training. The themes relate to the perceived impact of HHH on their practice and compatibility with the existing children’s social care (CSC) system. The article explores the factors that may influence foster carers’ positioning within the typology. The contributions that such a typology might make to the wider evidence base across CSC, in terms of the implementation and potential impacts of intervention, are discussed.

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McDermid, S., Trivedi, H., Holmes, L., & Boddy, J. (2021). Foster carers’ receptiveness to new innovations and programmes: an example from the introduction of social pedagogy to UK foster care. British Journal of Social Work, 52(3), 1213–1230.

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McDermid, S., et al. “Foster Carers’ Receptiveness to New Innovations and Programmes: an Example from the Introduction of Social Pedagogy to UK Foster Care.” British Journal of Social Work, vol. 52, no. 3, Oxford University Press, 2021, pp. 1213–30.

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McDermid, S, H Trivedi, L Holmes, and J Boddy. 2021. “Foster Carers’ Receptiveness to New Innovations and Programmes: an Example from the Introduction of Social Pedagogy to UK Foster Care.” British Journal of Social Work 52 (3): 1213–30.
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+ McDermid, S More by this author

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+ Trivedi, H More by this author

Institution:: University of Oxford
Division:: SSD
Department:: Education
Role:: Author
ORCID:: 0000-0001-8596-9408

+ Holmes, L More by this author

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+ Boddy, J More by this author

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Publisher:: Oxford University Press
Journal:: British Journal of Social Work More from this journal
Volume:: 52
Issue:: 3
Pages:: 1213–1230
Publication date:: 2021-07-23
Acceptance date:: 2021-06-07
DOI:: 10.1093/bjsw/bcab152
EISSN:: 1468-263X
ISSN:: 0045-3102

Language:: English
Keywords:: FFR
Pubs id:: 1187622
Local pid:: pubs:1187622
Deposit date:: 2021-07-27

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Copyright holder:: McDermid et al.
Copyright date:: 2021
Rights statement:: © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The British Association of Social Workers. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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