Reforming Child Welfare in the Post-Soviet Space: Institutional Change in Russia

Book Overview

This book provides new and empirically grounded research-based knowledge and insights into the current transformation of the Russian child welfare system. It focuses on the major shift in Russia's child welfare policy: deinstitutionalisation of the system of children's homes inherited from the Soviet era and an increase in fostering and adoption.

Divided into four sections, this book details both the changing role and function of residential...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367556448
• ISBN13: 9780367556440
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"