The present article proposes a first-stage mental health screening procedure (calibrated for high sensitivity) for children and adolescents (ages 4–17) in alternative care, which children’s agencies can implement without clinical oversight using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) and Brief Assessment Checklists (BAC).

This study presents the feasibility and pilot evaluation of the Reflective Fostering Programme (RFP), a recently developed, group-based program to support foster carers, based on the concept of “reflective parenting.”

This paper outlines a psychological skills group for unaccompanied asylum-seeking young people with a focus on cultural adaptations in the context of a UK mental health service.

"More and more children as young as 16 are being housed alone in bed and breakfast rooms, bedsits and even caravans by local authorities that are struggling to cope with rising numbers of youngsters in the care system," according to this article from the Guardian.

This study examined the impact of the model of professional childcare in a three-year project involving fifty-three children and young people and their carers in local-authority children’s homes on two UK areas (Northern and Southern England).

This report examines the challenging relationship between Islam and fostering and adoption in the UK, and efforts currently being made to address it.

This paper presents three care experienced perspectives on the benefits and challenges of capturing the voices of young people to inform policy and organisational decision-making in youth services.

The aim of this doctoral thesis was to identify why there are higher rates of unauthorised absence from school among post-primary looked after children and young people (LACYP), what does this tell us about their educational experiences, and what is known to be helpful or unhelpful in addressing this issue.

This report presents findings and recommendations from an evaluation of the Fostering Wellbeing pilot initiative devised by The Fostering Network that was trialled in Cwm Taf, Wales.

This study aimed to explore the psychometric properties of the BERRI in its current form for use with Looked After Children (LAC) in residential care and to explore whether these properties might be enhanced through the extraction of factors.