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International Journal of Child, Youth & Family Studies, 2017 The low educational achievement of looked after children — children in the care of a local authority — is well documented in the United Kingdom and internationally.
Andy Hancock, Juliet Hancock
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Promoting the spiritual well-being of children and young people with special needs
Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2003 Last year Camphill-Rudolf Steiner-Schools in Aberdeen hosted a conference entitled Promoting the Spiritual Well-being of Children and Young People with Special Needs: an Inclusive Vision.
Robin Jackson, Angelika Monteux
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Educational Futures, 2011 The poor outcomes for looked after children (LAC) are well-documented: for example, a young person from a care background is 10 times more likely to be given a statement of special education need (SEN) than their peers (DCSF, 2009).
Catherine Lamond
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Scotland's looked after children: best educated in class, or do they need a 'hole in the wall'?
Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2018 How can looked after children with special educational needs be supported outside the school day? Research suggests a significantly high proportion of looked after children have special educational needs.
Paul Lee Alan
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Young People’s Voice: The First Visiting Advocacy Project in Italian Residential Care for Children
STEPP: Socialinė Teorija, Empirija, Politika ir Praktika, 2017 This article presents the research of the project Giving Young People a Voice: Advocacy in Children’s Homes, set up as a result of the interest of a nonprofit organization working with looked-after children, with an aim to improve advocacy as a listening
Valentina Calcaterra +1 more
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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.
Hayley Alderson +4 more
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Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2013 The Innovative Routes to Learning (IRL) unit at the University of Strathclyde ran a three-day on-campus residential programme for children from a looked after (care) background from three Glasgow City Council schools during summer 2013, designed to build
Iain Mitchell
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Improving the education of looked after children: An Aberdeen perspective
Education in the North, 2009 This article outlines how Aberdeen City Council has taken forward work in relation to improving the educational outcomes for looked after children particularly relating to the role of the designated manager (both in schools and residential units), the ...
Jacinta Birchley, Katrina Stewart
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The story of Matthew: an ecological approach to assessment
Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2007 Although developmental stage theories in psychology have deepened our understanding of looked-after children, they have always run the risk of fixing the individual into a generalised framework so that their uniqueness is obscured (Scourfield, 2002 ...
Chris Walter
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Who Cares? Scotland: 25 years and still moving forward....
Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2003 Who Cares? Scotland was established in 1978 to act as the consumer voice of young people in care. Initially, the organisation provided the opportunity for young people to comment on the care services they received.
Deirdre Watson
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