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Event name: Health matters - Hot topics in adoption and fostering

Region: East Midlands

Date: 24/06/13

Last day: 24/06/13 (multi-day event)

Format: event;

Topics: adoption agencies; foster care; post adoption services; psychiatric social work; transracial adoption;

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Author: HABEL Lesley; CLARK Robyn A.; SEGAL Leonie;

Title: Interest from tertiary educated persons in fostering children with higher care needs under a professional (paid) model compared with general foster care.

Reference: Australian Social Work, 66(1), 2013, pp.8-25.

Format: article;

Topics: foster care; foster carers; higher education; recruitment; research; Australia;

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Author: MADDEN Elissa E.; AGUINIGA Donna M.;

Title: An evaluation of permanency outcomes of child protection mediation.

Reference: Journal of Public Child Welfare, 7(1), January 2013, pp.98-121.

Format: article;

Topics: child protection; foster care; mediation; outcomes; permanency planning; research; United States;

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Author: PUTNAM-HORNSTEIN Emily; et al.;

Title: Racial and ethnic disparities: a population-based examination of risk factors for involvement with child protective services.

Reference: Child Abuse and Neglect, 37(1), January 2013, pp.33-46.

Format: article;

Topics: black and minority ethnic people; child protection; foster care; pre-school children; risk; socioeconomic groups; research; United States;

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Author: CROSS Theodore P.; et al.;

Title: Why do children experience multiple placement changes in foster care? Content analysis on reasons for instability.

Reference: Journal of Public Child Welfare, 7(1), January 2013, pp.39-58.

Format: article;

Topics: foster care; foster children; placement disruption; research; United States;

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Author: SMITH Jacqueline; et al.;

Title: Fictions and facts about parents and parenting older first-time entrants to foster care.

Reference: Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 23(2), 2013, pp.211-219.

Format: article;

Topics: carers; foster care; foster children; grandparents; parenting; parents; placement; young people; research; United States;

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Author: GOURDINE Ruby M.; SMITH Jacqueline M.; BROWN Annie W.;

Title: Experiences of biological parents and their older children in out-of-home care for the first time.

Reference: Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 23(2), 2013, pp.220-236.

Format: article;

Topics: child protection; foster care; parents; placement; poverty; substance misuse; young people; research; United States;

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Author: GREAT BRITAIN. Department for Education;

Title: Training, support and development standards for foster carers: guidance: refreshed November 2012

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Publisher: London: Great Britain. Department for Education, 2012. 65p.

Format: book;

Topics: foster care; foster carers; standards; government publication; guidance; standards; England; users and carers;

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Author: GREAT BRITAIN. Department for Education;

Title: Special guardianship guidance: Children Act 1989: the special guardianship regulations 2005

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Publisher: London: Great Britain. Department for Education, 2005. 48p.

Format: book;

Topics: assessment; Family Courts; family law; foster care; local authorities; payments; permanency planning; special guardianship; government publication; guidance; England;

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Author: GREAT BRITAIN. Acts, Bills;

Title: Children and young persons, England: the special guardianship regulations 2005: statutory instrument 2005 no. 1109

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Publisher: London: Stationery Office, 2005. 16p.

Format: book;

Topics: assessment; Family Courts; family law; foster care; local authorities; payments; permanency planning; special guardianship; government publication; legislation; England;

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Author: STOTT Tonia;

Title: Transitioning youth: policies and outcomes.

Reference: Children and Youth Services Review, 35(2), February 2013, pp.218-227.

Format: article;

Topics: foster care; foster children; outcomes; transitional services; young people; research review; United States;

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Author: JOHNSON-MOTOYAMA Michelle; et al.;

Title: Cost analysis of the strengthening families program in reducing time to family reunification among substance-affected families.

Reference: Children and Youth Services Review, 35(2), February 2013, pp.244-252.

Format: article;

Topics: children; cost effectiveness; families; family reunification; foster care; substance misuse; research; United States;

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Author: GREAT BRITAIN. Department for Education;

Title: Short break carers: supplementary guidance for managers, supervisors and trainers

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Publisher: London: Great Britain. Department for Education, 2012. 25p.

Format: book;

Topics: assessment; care workers; children; disabled people; foster care; short break care; standards; training; young people; government publication; guidance; standards; England;

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Author: GREAT BRITAIN. House of Lords. Select Committee on Adoption Legislation;

Title: Adoption: pre-legislative scrutiny: report

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Publisher: London: Stationery Office, 2012. 34p.

Format: book;

Topics: adoption; childrens services; duty of care; foster care; social policy; government publication; England;

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Author: SCHOFIELD Gillian; et al.;

Title: Professional foster carer and committed parent: role conflict and role enrichment at the interface between work and family in long-term foster care.

Reference: Child and Family Social Work, 18(1), February 2013, pp.46-56.

Format: article;

Topics: family relations; foster care; foster carers; long term placement; parental role; professional role; research; England; Wales;

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Author: SIRRIYEH Ala;

Title: Hosting strangers: hospitality and family practices in fostering unaccompanied refugee young people.

Reference: Child and Family Social Work, 18(1), February 2013, pp.5-14.

Format: article;

Topics: families; family relations; foster care; foster children; refugees; unaccompanied asylum seeking children; young people; research; England;

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Author: SALLNÄS Marie; WIKLUND Stefan; LAGERLÖF Hélène;

Title: Welfare resources among children in care.

Reference: European Journal of Social Work, 15(4), 2012, pp.467-483.

Format: article;

Topics: foster care; looked after children; mental health; residential care; research; Sweden;

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Author: GOLDBERG Abbie E.; et al.;

Title: “When you’re sitting on the fence, hope's the hardest part”: challenges and experiences of heterosexual and same-sex couples adopting through the child welfare system.

Reference: Adoption Quarterly, 15(4), 2012, pp.288-315.

Format: article;

Topics: adoption; adoptive parents; discrimination; foster care; foster carers; gay men; lesbians; research; United States;

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Author: RICHARDS Sarah;

Title: 'What the map cuts up the story cuts across': narratives of belonging in intercountry adoption.

Reference: Adoption and Fostering, 36(3/4), Autumn/Winter 2012, pp.104-111.

Format: article;

Topics: birth families; children; cultural identity; families; foster care; intercountry adoption; transracial adoption; research; England;

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Author: CABALLERO Chamion; et al.;

Title: The diversity and complexity of the everyday lives of mixed racial and ethnic families: implications for adoption and fostering practice and policy.

Reference: Adoption and Fostering, 36(3/4), Autumn/Winter 2012, pp.9-24.

Format: article;

Topics: children; cultural identity; ethnicity; families; foster care; transracial adoption; United Kingdom;

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