This Review has provided the opportunity to revisit and reassert the fundamental purposes of education for the children and young people of Wales and to recommend curriculum and assessment arrangements that can best fulfil those purposes Read More
Understanding the educational experiences and opinions, attainment, achievement and aspirations of looked after children in Wales
In December 2014 the Welsh Government, on behalf of Welsh Ministers, invited tenders for a study to explore the educational experiences and opinions, attainment, achievement and aspirations of looked after children in Wales. Read More
Assessing the impact of the Buttle UK quality mark in higher education
Statistics show that the number of students coming in to Higher Education (HE)1 from a care background remains extremely low across the UK. Read More
Supporting Looked After Children in Education
This chapter, aimed principally at teachers and managers in education services, outlines the context and practice issues in relation to looked after children in education in Scotland. Read More
The Educational Attainment of Looked After Children and Young People
This report focuses on one element of the responsibilities of the corporate parent: to help children and young people who are looked after achieve their educational potential. Read More
The Education of Children in Care
In this article we argue that the generally poor outcomes for people who have spent time in care as children can be confidently linked to educational failure, and that the care and education systems must bear a heavy responsibility for this. Read More
Failed By The System: The views of young care leavers on their educational experiences
As a leading children’s charity, Barnardo’s wanted to find out more about the factors that inhibit children doing better and what young people themselves felt and thought about their experiences of education We surveyed 66 young people aged between 16 and 21 who had been in care and who are supported by Barnardo’s Leaving Care projects. Read More
The Placement of Looked After Children in Wales: A “top-down” perspective
Andrew Pithouse and Anne Crowley outline key findings and themes arising from an All Wales survey of local authority placements commissioned by the National Assembly for Wales. Read More
The Fostering Network: Wales foster care allowances survey 2019-20
This report focuses purely on the allowances given to the foster carer to cover the costs of looking after a fostered child… Read More
The experiences and outcomes of children and young people from Wales receiving Secure Accommodation Orders
Social Care Wales commissioned a project to explore the experiences of children and young people from Wales who received Secure Accommodation Orders between 1 April 2016 and 31 March 2018. Read More
