This paper explores the extent to which the existing research literature has addressed four key assets to a successful transition to adulthood identified by care-experienced young people - skills and qualifications, personal connections, financial and practical support, and emotional support - and if so, what it showed about the asset’s role in a transition to adulthood.

This tool provides practical suggestions and guidance to support your practice in communicating with children in court.

This paper explores care leavers’ needs and priorities from the perspective of self-determination theory (SDT), which relates the individual’s motivation to the human need for competence, relatedness and autonomy.

This article presents the findings from a systematic review conducted on interventions for foster children and foster carers.

This article reports a three-stage process of developing a model of teacher education to encompass provision for Looked After Children in schools in the UK.

The Editors of the Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care are calling for papers for a special themed issue of the journal to mark the 20th anniversary of the Scottish Institute of Residential Child Care Conference taking place 4-5 June in Glasgow. 
 

This paper reports on the initial formative phase of a pilot feasibility randomised controlled trial; SOLID (Supporting Looked After Children and Care Leavers In Decreasing Drugs, and Alcohol) that aimed to adapt two evidence-based psychosocial interventions, Motivational Enhancement Therapy and Social Behaviour and Network Therapy, which will aim to reduce substance misuse by looked after children.

This article examines the professional identities of family therapists employed by Family Counselling Services (FCS) in Norway and their experiences providing therapeutic services to parents whose children are placed in public care.

This brief paper focuses on the question of how care-experienced young people in Ireland fare in accessing opportunities in higher education.

This paper reports on innovative research methods using GPS [Global Positioning System] devices that can trace social workers' mobilities and explore the use of office space, home working and visits to families in two English social work departments. This article presents unique findings that reveal how mobile working is shaping social care practitioner wellbeing and practice.