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Something to say for themselves
- Author:
- REVANS Lauren
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 20.5.10, 2010, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Blueprint in Practice, run by Voice, provides projects to identify and overcome barriers that prevent services from being child-centred. Kirklees is one of seven local authorities participating. The article explains how Kirkless have been successful in getting more looked-after children to participate in their own reviews due to the age-specific review forms the children helped to design.
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.
Participation in residential child care in Germany
- Authors:
- BABIC Bernhard, PLUTO Liane
- Journal article citation:
- Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 6(2), August 2007, pp.32-39.
- Publisher:
- Department of Social Work. University of Strathclyde.
This paper sets out to examine how participation is perceived and enacted in German residential child care, a field which varies considerably. Mostly, establishments consist of four or five units catering for between six and eight young people of different ages and mixed sex, with care normally provided in shifts by teams of four to five. They may, however, consist of small groups based on a family-type structure, or be integrated into "normal" residential areas not directly linked to a larger facility, or be supported-living units for individuals. Legislation is described. Interest in participation by those in care has grown recently, and three studies are summarised. It is concluded that this overview of research provides some important messages. Establishments and staff would gain much by letting go of their fears about participatory opportunities for those in their care. Similarly, organisations should learn that their own staff and managers are perhaps best placed to understand their own workplaces. Such expertise should be acknowledged and used in participatory relationships.
My turn to talk? the participation of looked after and accommodated children in decision-making concerning their care: full report
- Author:
- CHILDREN IN SCOTLAND
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 82p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Successful participation in decision-making can be particularly hard for looked after and accommodated children (as well as for the professionals and adult decision-makers in their lives). This qualitative research study was undertaken to ascertain the meaning and manifestations of 'children’s participation in decision-making' in two Scottish local authorities (one urban, one rural). In-depth interviews were conducted with looked after children, social workers, reviewing officers and children’s rights officers. This work focuses on the feelings and views of looked after and accommodated children and considers of both day-to-day participation in decision making and participation in formal meetings about placement, parental contact and other major issues in the lives of these children. It also includes the perceptions of the key professionals working with these children. This study’s aims were to explore looked after children’s views on, and experiences of, participation in meetings and more generally, to identify methods used to help looked after children have input and assess how well these methods work according to key stakeholders, and make recommendations on ways to help children have input into decision-making concerning their care.
Good practice guidance for children in care councils
- Authors:
- NATIONAL YOUTH ADVOCACY SERVICE, NATIONAL CENTRE FOR EXCELLENCE IN RESIDENTIAL CHILD CARE
- Publisher:
- National Youth Advocacy Service
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 15p.
- Place of publication:
- Birkenhead
The context of the recently published White Paper "Care matters" includes training around the new ‘Pledge’ and ‘Children In Care Councils’. The proposals for change as set out in Care Matters address how the state can be a better corporate parent for those in, or leaving, the care system.
The ups and downs of being looked after
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 6.9.07, 2007, p.22.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Some young people briefly describe their experiences of being in care and a practitioner discusses the importance of involving them in the placement process.
Children make their mark
- Author:
- REVANS Lauren
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 12.07.07, 2007, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Seven local authorities have signed up to the Blueprint project which sets out to improve the lives of looked-after children by asking them what they want. The project is supported by the NCB and run by children in care charity Voice.
Keeping it in the family
- Author:
- NACIF Ana Paula
- Journal article citation:
- Local Government Chronicle, 11.05.06, 2006, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Emap Business
Tower Hamlets LBC has put children at the heart of its children's services by being a 'corporate parent' and is a winner of a Local Government Chronicle Award. This article reports on how they have put children at the heart of planning.
My turn to talk: a guide to help children in care aged 11 or younger have a say about how they are looked after
- Authors:
- LANYON Claire, SINCLAIR Ruth
- Publisher:
- National Children's Bureau
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 21p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This guide offers practical tips and advice to looked after children about how they can have more say in their care. The guide includes: a description of the care planning process, advice on how they can have more say in decisions about all aspects of their care, what to do if they are unhappy, and where to go for extra help.
My turn to talk: a guide to help young people in care aged 12 or older have a say about how they are looked after
- Authors:
- LANYON Claire, SINCLAIR Ruth
- Publisher:
- National Children's Bureau
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 21p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This guide offers practical tips and advice to looked after children about how they can have more say in their care. The guide includes: a description of the care planning process, advice on how they can have more say in decisions about all aspects of their care, what to do if they are unhappy, and where to go for extra help.