Libraries and Care-experienced Children and Young People

John Vincent has worked in the public sector since the 1960s, primarily for Hertfordshire, Lambeth and Enfield public library services, including as a children’s and young people’s librarian and senior manager. John has previously published Libraries and Sanctuary, LGBT People and the UK Cultural Sector and co-authored Public Libraries and Social Justice. He is also currently the Chair of the CILIP Benevolent Fund and is a recipient of the CILIP CDEG Special Diversity Award.

• IntroductionChapter 1: Definitions and Scope of the BookChapter 2: A Brief Introduction to the Social Policy BackgroundChapter 3: What have Libraries provided in the past?Chapter 4: What Barriers are there to the take-up of Library Services by Care-experienced Children and Young People and their Carers, and how can we begin to dismantle these?Chapter 5: How are Libraries responding today?Chapter 6: What can we learn from elsewhere?Conclusions – and what more can we do?Appendix 1: More Information about the Care SystemAppendix 2: ‘Right to Read’ and other PHF-supported initiativesReferencesIndex