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What does “looked after” mean? information for host families on overnight stays
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Government
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Government
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 2p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This leaflet is designed to give people a little background information on what it’s like to be looked after away from home and also contact information which might be helpful to host families.
Reaching higher: Who Cares? Scotland annual review 2008/2009
- Author:
- WHO CARES? SCOTLAND
- Publisher:
- Who Cares? Scotland
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 25p.
- Place of publication:
- Glasgow
Who Cares? Scotland has a 30 year history of working with children and young people looked after away from home in Scotland to create positive changes in the care system. The annual report is presented.
Children accommodated in secure children's homes at 31 March 2009: England and Wales
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department for Children, Schools and Families
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Children, Schools and Families
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 7p., tables
- Place of publication:
- London
This report provides figures and tables of data on children accommodated in secure children's homes in England and Wales. 290 children were accommodated in secure children's homes as at 31 March 2009, this represents a rise of 4% on the 2008 total.
Prevalence of mental health problems among children placed in out-of-home care in Denmark
- Authors:
- EGELUND Tine, LAUSTEN Mette
- Journal article citation:
- Child and Family Social Work, 14(2), May 2009, pp.156-165.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This paper concerns the prevalence of mental health problems among children in family foster and residential care within a Danish context. All children, born in Denmark in 1995, who are or formerly have been placed in out-of-home care (n= 1072), are compared with a group of vulnerable children of the same age, subjected to child protection interventions but living at home (n= 1457, referred to as the 'in home care children'), and to all contemporaries who are not child protection clients (n= 71 321, referred to as the 'non-welfare children'). Prevalence data are established on the basis of national administrative register data, including data on psychiatric diagnoses of the children, and on survey data scoring children in out-of-home care, in home care children, and non-welfare children by means of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ). Results show that 20% of children in out-of-home care have at least one psychiatric diagnosis compared to 3% of the non-welfare children. Almost half of the children in care (48%) are, furthermore, scored within the abnormal range of SDQ, compared to 5% of the non-welfare children.
Former care leavers in Northern Ireland (2007/08): statistical bulletin
- Author:
- NORTHERN IRELAND. Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety
- Publisher:
- Northern Ireland. Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 24p., tables
- Place of publication:
- Belfast
This statistical bulletin presents information on care leavers who had been in the care of Northern Ireland Health and Social Services Trusts at 1st April 2005 and who reached their 19th birthday during the year ending 31st March 2008. The bulletin covers information on last placement; contact with social services; education, training and employment; and accommodation.
Former care leavers in Northern Ireland (2008/09): statistical bulletin
- Author:
- NORTHERN IRELAND. Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety
- Publisher:
- Northern Ireland. Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 19p., tables
- Place of publication:
- Belfast
This statistical bulletin presents information on care leavers who had been in the care of Northern Ireland Health and Social Services Trusts at 1st April 2006 and who reached their 19th birthday during the year ending 31st March 2009. The bulletin covers information on last placement; contact with social services; education, training and employment; and accommodation.
Outcome indicators for looked after children: year ending 30 September 2008
- Author:
- NORTHERN IRELAND. Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety
- Publisher:
- Northern Ireland. Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 37p., tables
- Place of publication:
- Belfast
This statistical bulletin presents information on children and young people looked after continuously for at least 12 months at 30 September 2008, gathered from Health and Social Care Trusts. It details findings from the annual OC2 collection of information on the educational achievements of these children. It also includes information on statements of special educational needs, placement type, school attendance, offences and convictions. The results of the latest survey indicate that children looked after in Northern Ireland continue to be less likely than looked after children in England, and all school children in Northern Ireland, to have obtained educational qualifications.
Improving educational outcomes for looked-after children and young people: scoping review 1
- Authors:
- BRODIE Isabelle, et al
- Publisher:
- Centre for Excellence and Outcomes in Children and Young People's Services
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 75p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This scoping study assesses the nature and extent of the evidence base in relation to improving educational outcomes for looked-after children. The scoping study’s prime purpose is to establish the key review questions and search parameters for later review work, assess the nature and strength of the evidence base and provide an initial overview of trends in the literature. It does not report on the findings of the literature. The questions considered in the scope were: what do we know about the accessibility, acceptability and effectiveness of policies, services and interventions initiated by central, regional and local government and independent sector, what are looked-after children and young people’s (LACYP’s) views on what constitutes positive educational outcomes and how do they compare with those of policy makers, children’s services personnel and independent sector providers, and what do we know about the contribution made to positive educational outcomes for LACYP by the attitudes, skills and abilities of foster, residential, kinship carers, teachers and birth families and interventions to support this contribution. Details of the search parameteres and scoping process are provided in the appendices.
The case for enhanced educational supports for children in public care: an integrated literature review of the educational pathway of children in care
- Author:
- SNOW Kim
- Journal article citation:
- Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies, 4(4), December 2009, pp.300-311.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
The adult outcome of young people who have grown up in foster care is an object of concern, with studies showing that they lag behind their peers on a number of socio-economic indicators. Educational attainment is seen as a key development outcome, highly associated with positive adult adjustments. However, the educational passage of children in foster care is often complex and fragmented. School changes, lack of advocacy, special educational needs and placement disruptions have an impact on the children’s educational progress. This review considers the published literature that explores the educational experiences and associated outcomes of children who leave the care of child protection services. It examines the factors that impact on the educational pathways of children in care, such as poverty and maltreatment, special educational needs, and developmental disabilities. It concludes by discussing the need for enhanced educational support for these young people.
Moving stories: using mobile methods to explore the everyday lives of young people in public care
- Authors:
- ROSS Nicola J., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Qualitative Research, 9(5), November 2009, pp.605-623.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This article focuses on two mobile methods of participatory research which enable research environments. ‘Guided’ walks and car journey interactions are a means of generating time and space for participants to co-generate and communicate meaningful understanding of their lives during research encounters and exchanges. Data from 2006-2007 from the (Extra)ordinary Lives project in Wales on eight young people in or with experience of residential and community care is presented to illustrate the techniques in practice. With sections including “no place without self and no self without place”, “marking lines of lives: ‘guided’ walks and car journey interactions”, “’guided’ walks: passageways to perspectives”, “car journey interactions: making meaningful routinised journeys”, “directing intimacies: moving between the mundane and the meaningful”, “engagements and disengagement: pacing the sharing of narratives”, “motion, commotion and the multi sensory” and “disrupting routes: dead ends, diversions and meandering”, the author stresses the importance of these new mobile methods. The pressure to converse was generally removed when using these mobile methods and sensitive topics were explored, with intimacies interwoven within narratives of the mundane ordinariness of the activities of daily living. A new ‘mobilities’ paradigm of complex interrelations between travel and dwelling, home and not-home, currently applies to those working within social science.