The meaning and significance of sibling and peer relationships for young people looked after on behalf of local authorities [PDF]
This thesis explores the meaning and significance of sibling and peer relationships for young people looked after by local authorities, from their own perspectives.
Parker, Eleanor Susan
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Pathways to Permanence for children who become looked after in Scotland. Insights for policymakers and practitioners [PDF]
, 2019 Statistics from 2018 (Scottish Government 2019) show that 14,738 children were looked after in Scotland (at 31st July 2018). Many children who become looked after away from home will return to their parents, but for some the decision is taken to ...
Hooper, Jade +4 more
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Attachment-informed practice with looked after children and young people
, 2011 One of a series of reports providing the social services workforce with brief, accessible and practice-oriented summaries of published evidence on key topics.
Furnivall, Judith
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Caring for traumatised looked-after children: the costs and gains of caring [PDF]
, 2013 Research has evidenced variously the impact on those caring for traumatised people, such as wives of distressed police officers, partners of war veterans and trauma counsellors. However, there is a lack of research exploring the impact on foster parents (
Redfern, J.
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Contact visits for looked after children: the views of children, parents and professionals [PDF]
, 2021 Section A This review explored the views and experiences of children, birth parents, foster carers, social workers, and contact supervisors to provide an understanding of contact from all perspectives. A systematic search yielded 10 studies.
Mcdonnell, K.
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Working relationally with looked after children: the role of residential therapeutic carers [PDF]
, 2013 Section A is a literature review evaluating the role of Therapetuic Care Workers (TCWs) and Therapeutic Foster Carers (TFCs) working relationally with a sub-group of Looked After Children (LAC) who are highlighted as having intense emotional and ...
Ferris, E.
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Looked-after children and educational trajectories
To date, the education of looked-after children has received much coverage within policy, practice and literature. With such focus predominantly on their underachievement, little attention has been afforded to those looked-after children that do achieve ...
Woodhouse, Chloé
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Linking administrative datasets about looked after children. Insights for policymakers and practitioners [PDF]
, 2019 The Scottish Government’s Looked After Children Data Strategy (2015) seeks to provide a robust and reliable body of data to realise the policy ambitions set out in the Scottish Government’s strategy Getting it right for looked after children and young ...
Hooper, Jade +2 more
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Still room for improvement? The educational experiences of looked after children in Scotland
, 2005 In this chapter Kirstie Maclean and Graham Connelly present an analysis of joined-up thinking in Scotland from both social services and education ...
Connelly, Graham, Maclean, Kirstie
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