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The Pathways of Care Longitudinal Study (POCLS) is the first large-scale prospective longitudinal study of children and young people in out-of-home care in Australia. It includes a cohort of all 4126 children and young people (age 0 to 17 years) who entered out-of-home care for the first time over an 18-month period from May 2010 to October 2011 in New South Wales, with a focus on 2828 of these…
The Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for the Alternative Family-based and Community-based Care of Children in Kenya provide guidance for the comprehensive implementation of the Guidelines for Alternative Family Care for Children in Kenya (2014). The SOPs guide actors to provide high-quality and standardized alternative care services to children separated from their parents (including emergency placements).
The SOPs provide step-by-step practical guidance on:
- Implementing safe and appropriate alternative family and community-based care services, especially when placing…
National Network for Children (NNC) released its monitoring Report Card 2023 which evaluates the progress of state care institutions in eight areas – Child participation, Child Welfare, Family Environment and Alternative care, Protection from all forms of Violence, Child Justice, Early Childhood Development, Child Health, Education, Sport, Culture and Leisure.
The 12th edition of the Report Card receives its highest rating so far: 3.33 out of 6.
The report notes the greatest progress in the care for early…
Over the past year, Eurochild has worked with its members, UNICEF, and over 50 national experts across Europe on the DataCare Project to map how EU Member States and the UK currently collect data on the situation of children in alternative care.
This report presents the interim findings of this project, based on the analysis of 14 countries who participated in the study at the end of 2020. The interim findings centre around four core findings:
- National officially published data can be mapped onto internationally recognised categories of alternative care.
- …
Abstract
Background
To monitor stability of care, the proportion of children in England who have experienced three or more placements in the preceding 12-month period is published in government statistics. However, these annual snapshots cannot capture the complexity and heterogeneity of children’s longitudinal care histories.
Objective
To describe the stability of care histories from birth to age 18 for children in England using a national administrative social care dataset, the Children Looked After return (CLA).
Participants and setting
We analyzed CLA data for a large,…
Abstract
Background
Research suggests that up to one-third of children who reunify re-enter care because of continued maltreatment. For young children, this is particularly detrimental due to rapid brain development during the first years of life.
Objective
This study examined family- and state child welfare system predictors of successful reunification, or reunification with no reentries into foster care.
Methods
A sample of N=53,789 from the 2012 Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System of children ages zero-to-five who reunified was utilized. Children were…
Abstract
Local authorities in England are required to routinely collect administrative data on children in care and cross-sectional analyses of national data are published by central government. This paper explores the usefulness of undertaking a longitudinal analysis of these data at local authority level to determine the care pathways for children entering care, differentiating by age at entry. The sample consisted of 2208 children who entered care in one English local authority over a six-year period, and who were followed up for at least 2 years. A logistic regression model was fitted…
‘Children’s Voices: Children’s experiences of instability in the care system’ is published alongside the Children’s Commissioner’s third annual Stability Index, which measures stability in the care system by looking at how often children in care move home, school or social worker over a year.
In addition to this data analysis, the Children’s Commissioner’s Office also carried out interviews with 22 children in England who are in care or care leavers. The interviewees were aged…
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.…
This report has been completed as one part of the Permanently Progressing? study. 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 birth parents (with kinship carers, foster carers or prospective adopters) when they were aged five and under. Phase One ran from 2014-18 and was designed to be the…