Care and Education (Page 7)
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Do educational outcomes for people with care experience get better over time?
Our recent paper examines the educational pathways of 18 care-experienced adults in Ireland…
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#MessagestoSocialWorkers – A film created by care-experienced young people
We worked with a group of young people in care to create a film highlighting key messages that young people want to share with social workers…
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Lights, Camera, Action: Translating Research Findings into Policy and Practice Impacts with Music, Film and Artwork
This chapter, written with Louisa Roberts, Eleanor Staples and Ministry of Life, thinks about how to get the messages from research out to wide and diverse audiences….
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Factors that promote positive supervised birth family contact for children in care
This chapter, written with Dr Paul Rees, draws upon a study which considered the experiences and views of 165 key individuals involved in or experiencing supervised birth family contact at an identified contact centre within Wales.
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‘A Family of my Own’: When young people in and leaving state care become parents in Wales
This chapter considers early parenthood for young people in and leaving state care in Wales. Drawing on data from a five-year pan-Wales study, funded by Health and Care Research Wales…
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Positionality and Reflexivity: Conducting Qualitative Interviews with Parents who Adopt Children from Foster Care
Who we are matters. In research, when the interviewer meets their participants, both parties make judgements about each other which impact on what happens and what is said in the interview.
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Using Participatory Methods with Young People in an Education Setting
This chapter focuses on participatory, qualitative and collaborative approaches to research.
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Enabling care-experienced young people’s participation in research: CASCADE Voices
This chapter, written with Louise Roberts, Jennifer Lyttleton-Smith, Sophie Hallett and CASCADE Voices, explores the work of a research advisory group for care experienced young people in Wales (CASCADE Voices).
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Important Messages from Young People in Care about their Education
These comic strip posters illustrated below have been developed from stories shared with us from care experience young people from across Wales…
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Educational Interventions for Children and Young People in Care: A Review of Outcomes, Implementation and Acceptability
This chapter reviewed the best available evidence on educational interventions intended to improve educational outcomes for children and young people who have resided in care.
