ABSTRACT
Psychologists do not often assess children in care unless a court report is needed or a child is admitted to an assessment centre, often after a family crisis or a foster breakdown. The observations in this chapter, however, are based on the unusual experience of being the educational psychologist attached to several children's homes in a London borough. I was asked to see children in long-term residential care who presented chronic learning difficulties, and young children with serious behaviour difficulties for whom decisions about fostering or rehabilitation had to be made, as well as a number of older children whose problems appeared to increase at adolescence.
