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Since it's founding in 1997, the CYC-Net discussion group has been asked thousands of questions. These questions often generate many replies from people in all spheres of the Child and Youth Care profession and contain personal experiences, viewpoints, as well as recommended resources.

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Key working

Hi,

I was wondering if the collective knowledge of the group may be able to share some the names of articles/papers/books related to Key Working particularly focusing on Residential Child Care but I'm aware that I don't want too narrow a field? I'm currently in year 2 of my MSc in Child and Youth Care and this would be very helpful in my studies.

Within the UK ln Residential Child Care I have experienced a culture of having key worker systems in place where there are allocated staff responsible for coordinating care and providing a supportive relationship to their ' Key Child'. I have searched around the net but so far the path that I have taken has restricted me to mostly uk based thoughts and ideas and I would like to gain a wider perspective from the world of CYC.

Does anyone know if there are parallels within residential treatment and residential homes of similar systems being in place and what this system would be called?

If you are within an organisation that has such a system in place, do you have have any examples of Key Working Training that you would be willing to share?

Thanks

Gareth Wall
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Gareth,

We used the term “Primary Worker”. See if that helps.

Peter Hoag
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Hi Gareth,

I wrote an article about key working in residential care that was published in Good Enough Caring Journal ...
http://www.goodenoughcaring.com/the-journal/confessions-of-a-keyworker-feelings-fears-frustration-and-the-future

Hope this is useful

Tracey Jarvis

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