Foster Care

The term “foster care” is used in a variety of ways, and, consequently, it often causes confusion and miscommunication. In the industrialized world it is generally used to refer to formal, temporary placements made by the State with families that are trained, monitored and compensated at some level. In many developing countries, however, fostering is kinship care or other placement with a family, the objective(s) of which may include the care of the child, the child’s access to education, and/or the child’s doing some type of work for the foster family.

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Paula Barbel - Nursing2020,

This article takes a look at physical and behavioral health problems in children and teens in foster care in the U.S. and offers information and tips for providing care to this vulnerable population.

Saarna Liis,

This article describes the system of training and support of foster carers and adoptive parents in Estonia.

Center for the Study of Social Policy,

In partnership with the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work, the upEND movement works to create a society in which the forcible separation of children from their families is no longer an acceptable solution for families in need.

Alan J. Dettlaff - Springer,

This volume examines existing research documenting racial disproportionality and disparities in child welfare systems, the underlying factors that contribute to these phenomena and the harms that result at both the individual and community levels.

Rikard Tordön - Linköping University Medical Dissertations,

This thesis aimed to explore health, abuse, support, and preconditions for school among children in out-of-home care (OHC) in Sweden and to assess changes after an intervention targeting foster children’s school performance.

Catherine Al Jawdah - Journal of the Contemporary Study of Islam,

This article examines the legal and practical implications of fostering and adoption law and policy in Britain. It includes an examination of the barriers preventing Muslim carers from coming into fostering and adoption, as well as the sensitive issue of caring for maḥram and non-maḥram children.

Hélène Join-Lambert, Janet Boddy & Rachel Thomson - Forum: Qualitative Social Research,

In this article the authors look for a suitable method which takes account of power relations while investigating young people's perspectives on their everyday lives.

Roger Bullock - Adoption & Fostering,

This article explores changes in policy and practice in children’s services in the UK over the past 40 years and discusses the thinking that has underpinned them.

The Fostering Network,

The Fostering Network's State of the Nation’s Foster Care survey is the largest survey of foster carers in the UK. This impact report lists the positive changes that have happened in the world of fostering since the publication of the State of the Nation 2019 report to the end of 2020.

Amy Bombay, Robyn J. McQuaid, Janelle Young, Vandna Sinha, Vanessa Currie, Hymie Anisman, and Kim Matheson - First Peoples Child & Family Review,

Through an online study, the authors of this paper explored the links between familial (parents/grandparents) Indian Residential School (IRS) attendance and subsequent involvement in the child welfare system (CWS) in a non-representative sample of Indigenous adults in Canada born during the Sixties Scoop era.