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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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