Research & reviews of practice

Care and Education (Page 5)

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  The experience and impact of supervised birth family contact with ‘looked after children:’ perspectives, roles and purposeful use

  The experience and impact of supervised birth family contact with ‘looked after children:’ perspectives, roles and purposeful use, by Dr Joanne Pye, is about understanding the experience and impact of supervised contact for looked after children.

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  Central South Consortium: Children Looked After Friendly Schools

  This document outlines the ways in which good practice for CLA within schools and educational settings can be undertaken.

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  Comparison of substance use, subjective well-being and interpersonal relationships among young people in foster care and private households: a cross sectional analysis of the School Health Research Network survey in Wales

  To investigate the association of living in foster care (FC) with substance use and subjective well-being in a sample of secondary school students (11–16 years) in Wales in 2015/16, and to examine whether these associations are attenuated by the perceived quality of interpersonal relationships.

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  Identifying and Responding to Child Neglect in Schools in Wales

  The project aims to provide further insight by investigating preventative and early intervention provision, in terms of how schools are currently playing a part in efforts to identify and respond to neglect.

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  In Care, Out of Trouble: How the life chances of children in care can be transformed by protecting them from unnecessary involvement in the criminal justice system (‘The Laming Review’)

  When the state takes over the parenting of someone else’s child, it has both a legal and moral responsibility to be a good parent. Quite often this will require determined effort to remedy the inadequacies or serious failure of the earlier parenting experienced by the young person.

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  Children and Young People’s Views on Being in Care: A Literature Review

  We are extremely pleased to publish the literature review on ‘Children and Young People’s Views on being in Care’, which seeks to highlight the voices of looked after children from existing research, on their journey through the care system.

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  The Educational Progress of Looked After Children in England: Linking Care and Educational Data (Overview Report)

  This project was the first major study in the UK to explore the relationship between educational outcomes, young people’s care histories and individual characteristics.

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  Successful Futures: Independent Review of Curriculum and Assessment Arrangements in Wales (‘The Donaldson Review’)

  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

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  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.

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  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.