Care and Education (Page 3)
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‘A Portrait of Care’: Combating the negative stereotypes people have about children in care
A Portrait of Care’ is a collaboration with the University of Southampton, Widening Participation Department. The project will form an online exhibition via Instagram using self-portraiture as a way to combat the negative stereotypes people have about children in care…
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Online services, mental health & wellbeing of the care-experienced
Research is required to understand how interventions can transition to online or blended (a mixture of face-to-face and online) delivery, what models are perceived to work most effectively…
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Education during COVID-19: Experiences of the fostering sector
Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic we have heard how fostering households across the UK quickly adapted to support children in these unprecedented times. Many foster carers assumed additional responsibilities…
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What role does agency play in shaping the educational journeys of ‘older’ care-experienced adults?
This blog post outlines key findings from an article Eavan published with her PhD supervisor, Professor Robbie Gilligan, drawing on her PhD research exploring the educational pathways of care-experienced adults in Ireland…
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Exploring reasons care leavers choose not to access higher education
Government attitudes towards increasing support for care leavers have been moving in a positive direction during the last decade…
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Leicestershire Cares & the BBC raise awareness for lockdown care-experienced young people
Leicestershire Cares’ leaving care team has been working closely with the care-experienced young people we support to help them share their experiences of social distancing and…
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Protecting vulnerable children while social distancing
It seems inevitable that demand for statutory child protection services will increase as people are asked to stay inside together. How do you keep children…
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Engaging young people in linguistic research and documentation
I am a linguist who works on speech production (how people talk) and speech perception (how people listen)…
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Overburdened social workers are not talking to children or recognising neglect
According to the children’s charity Action for Children, child neglect is the most common form of maltreatment in the UK, as well as being the most common reason for a child to be made subject to a child protection plan…
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Stories of care-experienced young people in lockdown
Hundreds of care leavers across Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland are experiencing increased isolation due to the Coronavirus outbreak. Over the next few weeks we will be…
