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Care-Leavers’ Views on Their Preparation for Leaving Residential Care in South Africa

open access: yesYouth
The process of youth leaving residential care, for those who grew up in care, remains a global challenge. In South Africa, leaving care is complicated by the almost complete absence of aftercare support services, and a general lack of preparation for ...
Nellie Sandy Seale, Adrian D. van Breda
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Appropriate and inappropriate relationships: David's story

open access: yesScottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2016
At just about every level, conceptually, politically and professionally, it is accepted that properly close relationships are the heart of social work practice.
Nicola
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Analiza percepției cu privire la planurile tranzitorii la tinerii din centrele de plasament și rezidențiale la nivel național [PDF]

open access: yesDrepturile Omului, 2021
This paper is based on a research on transitional mechanisms/plans in which young people under the special protection measure in placement and residential centres at national level participated.
Vișinel Costel Bălan
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De la violence familiale à la violence institutionnelle. Le continuum des violences dans l’expérience des jeunes placés en protection de l’enfance

open access: yesPopulations Vulnérables, 2023
For five years, several reports and testimonies from former foster children have alerted the public authorities to the violence children and young people may face in child protection institutions. However, their voices hardly get themselves heard.
Isabelle Lacroix   +3 more
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Vulnerability and Well-Being Decades After Leaving Care

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
One of the most important goals of out of home placements is to reduce vulnerability and to enable well-being in the long term. This article hermeneutically reconstructs biographies decades after leaving-care to understand the impact of residential care ...
Thomas Gabriel   +2 more
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Book review: Labours of Love: The Crisis of Care by Madeleine Bunting

open access: yesScottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2021
Journalist and broadcaster Madeleine Bunting spent five years researching what she calls a 'quiet crisis buried in individual lives' (p.5). The book's page proofs arrived with the author just after the UK had gone into lockdown because of the COVID-19 ...
Graham Connelly
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Book review: The Children of Looked After Children: Outcomes, Experiences and Ensuring Meaningful Support to Young Parents In and Leaving Care by Louise Roberts

open access: yesScottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2022
Published in March 2021, The Children of Looked After Children draws together findings from a four and a half year research study looking at parents in and leaving care in Wales. Funded by Health and Care Research Wales, the research was undertaken by Dr
Emma Young
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Book review: Beyond 18 - Leaving child care institutions: a study of aftercare practices in five states of India. UNICEF: India Country Office

open access: yesScottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2020
This is a review of an overview report of a study conducted by Udayan Care in India with support from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Tata Trusts and the five State Governments of Delhi, Gujarat, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Rajasthan.
Kenny McGhee
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Book review: The Criminalisation and Exploitation of Children in Care Multi-Agency Perspectives By Julie Shaw and Sarah Greenhow

open access: yesScottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2022
The Criminalisation and Exploitation of Children in Care focuses on responses to children and young people in residential and foster care who are at risk of criminalisation and/or exploitation and abuse.
Dan Johnson
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EDITORIAL: THE TRANSITION TO ADULTHOOD FROM CARE IN CANADA

open access: yesInternational Journal of Child, Youth & Family Studies, 2023
This introduction to the special issue provides an overview of the status of transitions from care in Canada. Currently, few statistics are collected on youth in and from care and regional disparities contribute to a comparatively low level of services ...
Varda R. Mann-Feder
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