Looking for best practice in caring for disabled children: a case of socialized foster care in China |
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Authors: | Xiaoyuan Shang |
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Institution: | 1. Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales , Sydney , Australia x.shang@unsw.edu.au |
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Abstract: | This study focuses on the problems associated with caring for children with cerebral palsy (CWCP) in Chinese State Children's Welfare Institutions (SCWIs). It considers how to place these children with foster families and also provide them with the best rehabilitation services. In a pilot project, one SCWI trained foster parents as rehabilitators and provided services to CWCPs living with foster families in selected rural communities. The practice was very successful over the last decade, and more than 600 CWCPs in these communities are growing up happily. Hence, specialized foster care projects could be a solution for all SCWIs in China, where most of the institutionalized children are disabled. |
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Keywords: | foster care child welfare Chinese social policies children with disabilities |
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