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Looked after and adopted children
2019Looked after children are a vulnerable group with significant health promotion needs. They are at risk of attachment difficulties and unidentified physical and mental health needs. They often have developmental and educational concerns. This chapter introduces the legal and human rights framework and describes what looked after children tell us is ...
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Checks for looked-after children
Children and Young People Now, 2018Characteristics of mental health assessments for children in care are analysed as pilots set for launch
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Justice for Looked after Children?
Probation Journal, 2003Abstract The relationship between experiences of public care and criminal behaviour is frequently referred to in the fields of child care and criminology, but has rarely been empirically explored. This article attempts to highlight something of the complexity of this relationship by drawing on interview data with careleavers, and by discussing policy ...
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Education 3-13, 2011
The focus of this article is on children who are ‘looked after’ or adopted. Specifically it explores some of the possible effects of early life traumas and insecure attachments on brain development and subsequent learning in primary school. The article draws on a range of research which helps to outline possible difficulties which these children may ...
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The focus of this article is on children who are ‘looked after’ or adopted. Specifically it explores some of the possible effects of early life traumas and insecure attachments on brain development and subsequent learning in primary school. The article draws on a range of research which helps to outline possible difficulties which these children may ...
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Are Looked after Children Socially Excluded?
Adoption & Fostering, 2008The concept of social exclusion has become ubiquitous in the discourse of children's services in the UK over the last ten years. But is it a useful concept? Nick Axford sets out a definition of social exclusion and examines the extent to which it applies to looked after children, since they are commonly referred to as being ‘excluded’ or ‘vulnerable ...
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Recent progress in the treatment of cancer in children
Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2021Theodore W Laetsch
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