The second aspect of social work involves working with children
and young people. Here again, there is a wide choice of areas
that a social worker can choose to specialise in or that they
might be asked to deal with. Often their young clients will have
problems in two or three different areas of their life; for
example if they are misbehaving at school, there is a chance
they may also be in trouble with the police for misbehaving out
of school! The first example of social work involving young
people is children’s home and the foster care system. Social
work and foster care Foster care is a kind of respite care,
though in some cases it can be much more long term. Every local
authority has a number of families in their area who are willing
to be foster parents to children whose home life has become too
unsettled or too dangerous. Social workers are very involved
with selecting and screening these foster families, to make sure
that they can provide the right environment for these children,
many of whom will have