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This study funded by Big Lottery and undertaken in partnership between the University of Bristol and Buttle UK, a grant-giving charity for vulnerable children, aims to fill the gaps in our understanding of how children experience living with kins, and in particular how children in informal kinship care view their situation.
The first phase of the study used limited micro-data from the UK Population Census of 2001 to estimate the extent of kinship care in the UK in 2011 and to describe the characteristics of kinship carers and children. The findings from the analysis of the census revealed…
Research has clearly established that institutional forms of care for children can often have a serious and negative impact on children’s development and on children’s rights. Partly in response to this, recent years have seen an increasing emphasis on the development of community-based approaches, both to prevent separation, and to ensure that children who lose, or become separated from their own families, can have the benefits of normal family life within the community.
This paper offers a ten-point analysis of the typical negative features of institutional care, indicating how these…