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The article reviews the book "Understanding Residential Child Care," by Nick Frost, Sue Mills and Mike Stein.

This article reviews the book "The Emotional Experience of Adoption, a Psychoanalytic Perspective," edited by Debbie Hindle and Graham Shulman.

The article reviews the book "Fostering Kinship: An International Perspective on Kinship Foster Care," edited by Roger Greef.

Adoption policy and practice is currently under scrutiny and its future shape in England and Wales is about to be announced by the government. A recent SSI inspection of adoption services which found large numbers of children waiting for families resulted in adoption services being slammed as 'unacceptable and in a crisis' (Browne 2000). As a consequence, there is a clear determination to bring adoption back into the mainstream of children's services; it is estimated that 1000 more children in care could benefit from adoption (Collier 2000). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]