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Background
Disparities in decision-making are a recognized concern within child protection systems and imply that marginalized groups are being treated unequally compared to majoritized groups. Previous studies reported that both ethnicity and the gender of the parent that maltreated the child seem associated with an increased likelihood that child protection agencies provide services after an investigation or that children are placed out of their homes.
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We investigated whether migration background and the gender of the parent who maltreated the child seem…
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Care proceedings are the most powerful child protection intervention; local authorities make applications for over 20,000 children each year in England and Wales. The Department for Education holds two administrative databases of children who receive services, for children looked after and children in need. These databases do not record the use of care proceedings. Data linkage is a powerful tool for revealing patterns not visible from a single data set; the Outcomes for children before and after care proceedings reform study linked these administrative records with a research…
One of several reports produced as part of the Scottish Independent Care Review, this report explains how Scotland can invest better in its children and families. There were two key objectives of this report: (1) To quantify the human costs and impacts of the current ‘care system’ and (2) To determine the financial costs of the current ‘care system’.
The report identifies the operational costs and other costs of the current care…
One of several reports produced as part of the Scottish Independent Care Review, this report (and the accompanying report Follow the Money) explains how Scotland can invest better in its children and families. This paper was written by Dr Katherine Trebeck and is her reflections on what was found as a…
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This article reports on a qualitative study, which sought to retrospectively understand the contribution family group conferencing (FGC) makes to longer‐term outcomes for children at risk of entering State care and their families. Eleven case examples of FGC were studied from five local government areas across Scotland. Each example included the perspectives of different stakeholders in the process: children, their parents/carers and extended family (n = 32), and professionals (n = 28) involved with them. The study found a number of interconnecting issues in relation to FGC…
This report has been completed as one part of the study Permanently Progressing? Building secure futures for children in Scotland. The study is the first in Scotland to investigate decision making, permanence, progress, outcomes and belonging for children who became ‘looked after’ at home, or were placed away from their parents (with kinship carers, foster carers or prospective adopters) when they were aged five and under.…
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The number of children referred to the English child protection system and the numbers receiving home-based intervention or placed in out of home care have been rising in recent years. It is difficult to judge whether these changes indicate that thresholds for intervention are low or high, as we know little about the severity of the maltreatment that draws children into the child protection system in England. This study compared the histories, circumstances and pathways of children receiving quasi-compulsory home-based support (under a child protection plan) to those for children…
This Briefing Note adds to the developing picture of adoption support issues by analysing data on 20 children and young people consecutively referred to the special adoption and fostering service at the Maudsley – a wellrespected and established national CAMHS service. The analysis of the 20 consecutive cases includes the reasons for referral, the original formulation of the issues and the interventions provided. This is then compared to the reformulation of the diagnosis and the resultant services and/or interventions by the Maudsley team. The contrast is striking.
While this is a small-…
This paper is an attempt at rethinking the systemic problems facing the funding and commissioning of care services and placements for children in need of care and adoption, across ALL types and specialisms of placement, from kinship care, through foster care, to residential care and adoption.
The ideas in this paper have been developed by Kathy Evans, CEO of Children England, based on findings and discussions over several years of involvement in examining the residential care market in particular, from both provider and commissioner perspectives. It has been shared with various…
In this brief article, the authors make their case for extending the age limit for young people to receive care in the foster care system, focusing on the UK and the US.