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Objective
In this study, the relationship between levels of dissociation, several pre-placement factors and other background variables was explored to facilitate understanding of the high prevalence of dissociation in adolescents living in care.
Methods
A sample of adolescents (n = 68) between the ages of 11 and 17 in care at Five Rivers Child Care (FRCC) participated in the study. The Adolescent Dissocitive Experiences Scale (ADES), a self-administered dissociation questionnaire was compared with an established carer-report…
The present study explores the meaning attached to ‘recovery’ for young people defined as having experienced human trafficking and explores this concept in relation to the longer-term impact of statutory, third sector and informal forms of support in Scotland. It draws on 11 years of data collected by the SGS and primary data collected from interviews with stakeholders, practitioners, and young people.
The aim of the study was to fill a gap in knowledge in relation to what constitutes recovery and effective support over a longer time frame for separated children and young people who have…
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This report presents the findings from a mixed-methods evaluation of peer parental advocacy (PPA) in the London Borough of Camden. PPA is a form of peer advocacy whereby parents with lived experience of child protection support other parents to navigate and engage with the process. Research evidence suggests that parents can find the child protection system to be difficult, stigmatising and authoritarian. Proponents of PPA suggest that it has the potential to promote shared decision-making, improve relationships between social services professionals and families, and enable…
This UK Department for Education report charts the experiences and views of parents in the UK whose children were made subject to a supervision order or a care order at home at the end of care proceedings.
Both are ways of keeping families together when it is safe to do so. The supervision order is a short-term order, which is typically made for one year. It can be renewed annually for up to three years. It places a duty on the local authority to ‘advise, assist and befriend the supervised child’.
Only the parent has parental responsibility. When a child is made subject to a care order…
Whilst it has been suggested that fostering involves being both a parent and a professional, little is known about how foster carers manage these roles. This study aimed to develop an explanatory theory and model of the processes involved in fostering looked after children and the relationship between the roles of parent and professional. Ten foster carers offering intended long-term placements to looked after children and five social care professionals who provide support to foster carers were interviewed. Data were analysed using grounded theory.
A preliminary model was developed which…
The National Care Service (Scotland) Bill was introduced to the Scottish Parliament on 20 June 2022. The purpose of the Bill is to "improve the quality and consistency of social services in Scotland" by creating a duty on Scottish Ministers to "promote a comprehensive and integrated care service" and making provision for "the establishment of care boards to carry out Ministers' functions in relation to social care, social work and community health."
In their Stage 1 Report published on 19 December, the Scottish Parliament's Education, Children and Young People Committee warned that plans…
This analysis conducted by the UK Office for National Statistics explores the education and social care background of care-experienced young people in England who were imprisoned at any point up to the age of 24 years.
This report presents the findings of an online survey and individual interviews which explored the experiences of carers providing out-of-home care to infants in New South Wales. While there is increasing research related to the care of children and young people requiring out-of-home Care, there is comparatively less specifically related to the care of infants. The findings highlight a need to provide increased training, support, and resources for new carers of infants in out-of-home care.
These are the key findings and recommendations of a report produced by Coram Voice and The Rees Centre at University of Oxford that captures the views of 10,000 children and young people in care in the UK on their wellbeing. This report summarises responses collected through the largest survey of its kind from children and young people aged 4-18 years between 2016 and 2021, giving unprecedented insight into children in care’s subjective wellbeing.
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This is the third report by Coram Voice and The Rees Centre at University of Oxford exploring learning from the Your Life, Your Care surveys that are part of the Bright Spots Programme. It is an analysis of 9,472 responses from children and young people (aged 4-18 years) collected between 2016 and 2021 from 38 Local Authorities in England. The findings build on previous overview reports and the pilot stage in 2015 that involved 611 children and young people. By 2021, the research team had gathered over 10,000 voices from children in care in England.
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