'Fit's at?' Cultural Safety and Residential Caring

This research is an examination of frontline staffs' understanding of cultural influences on the provision of residential childcare services in the north east of Scotland. The study will utilise in situ interviews from a variety of residential child care settings to examine workers awareness of the cultural factors, both personal and environmental that influence their approach to practice within the workplace. The findings will be contextualised within the developing international awareness of the concept of cultural safety.