Going Home

Return home in child-care policy and law; the return experience identified in child-care research; return in other contexts; resigning the study; patterns of return; children vulnerable to problems after return; predicting return outcomes; general themes from the intensive study; separation from home; return becomes an issue; the child back at home; children's return to contexts outside the family; long-term outcomes; indicators of a child's successful return; applying factors to individual cases. Appendices: the statistical analysis used to predict children's return outcomes; making assessments of the quality of relationships between the members of the families of children in care.