Book review : An Essential Guide to Surviving and Thriving in Residential Childcare: Lessons from the Frontline on how you'll Laugh, Love and Cry… All Before Lunchtime by Jane Dalgleish

An Essential Guide to Surviving and Thriving in Residential Childcare is explicitly aimed at residential childcare workers. As I am a researcher, not a residential childcare worker, it is legitimate to ask why I am reviewing this book. In my role I have been involved in numerous research projects that relate in one way or another to care experience, including two specifically focussed on residential childcare. One of these was an ethnography, where I spent a lot of time in one particular setting