This conceptual chapter from the book Education in Out-of-Home Care argues that efforts to improve educational outcomes for care experienced young people need rethinking.

Join this webinar to walk through the PROMISE Child Participation Tool and to discuss approaches and considerations for soliciting children’s views on their Barnahus experience.

The authors of this study use life course theory to explore the role of agency in shaping the educational pathways of 18 Irish adults (aged 24–36 years) with care experience.

The purpose of this webinar is to shed light on the specific experiences and issues of unaccompanied and separate girls in the European Response.

This article from BBC News shines a light on the stories of some of the people who suffered abuse and mistreatment as children in Ireland's Catholic institutions and "industrial schools." 

This paper focuses on qualitative findings on how young people in long-term foster care in Ireland interpret permanence and stability.

This paper explores how the principle of linked lives can illuminate our understanding of how relationships positively influence the educational journeys of adults with care experience over time.

This paper explores how the principle of linked lives can illuminate our understanding of how relationships positively influence the educational journeys of adults with care experience over time.

Guided by the life course principle of expected ‘diversity in life course trajectories’ this paper identifies the pathways taken through education among 18 care-experienced adults (aged 24–36) in Ireland and some of the experiences and events that influenced these pathways.

This paper sets out to explore why formal kinship care has emerged in such a marked way in recent decades by investigating the emergence and development of formal kinship care in two neighboring jurisdictions in Europe where it now accounts for a substantial proportion of all care placements in Scotland and Ireland.