[Part 1: Practice and lived experience] Young person's story: there's no place like home -- Workers's story: the impossible task?
[Part 2: Residential child care] Myths surrounding residential child care -- Residential child care in the Republic of Ireland.
[Part 3: Theory and approaches] Attachment theory, resilience, focal theory and listening -- Social pedagogy, relationship-based practice and mentoring.
[Part 4: Children's rights and policy] Children's rights -- Social policy.
[Part 5: Research] Research in care and aftercare -- An alternative research construct.
[Part 6: Rethinking residential care, leaving care and aftercare] The profession, the professional and professionalisation -- The socio-political and socio-economic context.
