Empowering looked‐after children [PDF]
Child and Family Social Work, 2001 Children’s rights include the right to participation in decisions made about them. For looked‐after children, this right is enshrined in the Children Act (England & Wales) 1989. This article reports the results of a study of children’s views about their experience of being looked after and the degree of power that they felt they had to influence ...
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Exploring Attachment and Internal Representations in Looked-After Children [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 BackgroundThis article explores the Story Stem Assessment Profile (SSAP), a narrative-based measure, for the assessment of internal representations in children between the ages of 4 and 11 years old.MethodsThe findings draw upon two samples of children ...
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The key therapeutic factors needed to deliver behavioural change interventions to decrease risky substance use (drug and alcohol) for looked after children and care leavers: a qualitative exploration with young people, carers and front line workers [PDF]
BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2019 Background Looked after children and care leavers have an increased risk of drug and alcohol use compared to their non-LAC peers. Despite high prevalence rates within this population, looked after children are reported to show low levels of engagement in
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‘You've come to children that are in care and given us the opportunity to get our voices heard': The journey of looked after children and researchers in developing a Patient and Public Involvement group [PDF]
Health Expectations, 2019 Background Looked after children and care leavers (denoted as LAC) are often described as a ‘hard to reach' group of young people, and their voices are rarely sought to inform academic research.
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The consequences of being labelled ‘looked‐after’: Exploring the educational experiences of looked‐after children and young people in Wales [PDF]
British Educational Research Journal, 2017 Sophie Hallett +2 more
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International Journal of Population Data Science, 2022 Objectives We aim to determine the proportion of infants entering care in Wales via the two primary legal routes (section 76 of the Social Services and Wellbeing (Wales) Act 2014, and section 31 of the Children Act 1989), and associations between mode of
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Looked After Children in Residential Homes [PDF]
Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 2003 Background: Looked after children in residential children's homes constitute a particularly vulnerable group who are known to have high rates of mental health problems and limited access to services. Method: A survey was undertaken in ...
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Mind-mindedness in parents of looked-after children. [PDF]
Developmental Psychology, 2017 The studies reported here aimed to test the proposal that mind-mindedness is a quality of personal relationships by assessing mind-mindedness in caregiver-child dyads in which the relationship has not spanned the child's life or in which the relationship has been judged dysfunctional.
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Looking After Children in the UK—Convergence or Divergence? [PDF]
The British Journal of Social Work, 2017 Comparative child welfare administrative data from each of the four jurisdictions of the UK (Scotland, England, Northern Ireland and Wales) was analysed over a ten-year period to examine rates and patterns of public care. Scotland followed by Wales has the highest rates of children in out-of-home care followed by England and NI with similar lower ...
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Book review: Not again little owl by Dr Vivien Norris
Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2020 Dr Vivien Norris, the author, is Clinical Director of the Family Place and her experience as a clinical psychologist, Theraplay and DDP practitioner is evident throughout the book. The book is the story of Little Owl whose Mummy isn't able to look after
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