Europe

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A Brief History of Contact in Fostering and Adoption: Practice and Power, and The Coming of the Mobile Phone
Jenny Simpson, Gary Clapton - Applied Social Studies & Sociology,

This article charts the UK history of contact in fostering and adoption as it relates to children in care and their birth relatives.

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The endings of journeys: A qualitative study of how Greece’s child protection system shapes unaccompanied migrant children’s futures
Divya Mishra, Vasileia Digidiki, Peter J. Winch - Children and Youth Services Review,

This study explores how male unaccompanied migrant children’s interactions with child protection staff in Greece shape their future trajectories as migrants.

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The role of foster parents’ basic psychological needs satisfaction and frustration as predictors of autonomy-supportive parenting and the functioning of foster children
Johan Vanderfaeillie, Stacey Van Den Abbeele, Giulia Fiorentino, Laura Gypen, Delphine West, Frank Van Holen - Children and Youth Services Review,

This study aims at examining if processes proposed by self-determination theory (SDT) are supported in a foster care sample.

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Indiscriminate friendliness in foster children: Associations with attachment security, foster parents’ sensitivity, and child inhibitory control
Nikita K. Schoemaker, Harriet J. Vermeer, Femmie Juffer, Ruan Spies, Elisa van Ee, Athanasios Maras, and Lenneke R. A. Alink - Developmental Child Welfare,

The current exploratory study examined the associations of children’s attachment security, parental sensitivity, and child inhibitory control with reported and observed indiscriminate friendliness (IF) in 60 family-reared, never-institutionalized foster children.

Foster parents' experiences of using child mental health and welfare services in Norway: Associations with youth, placement, and service characteristics
Marit Larsen, Valborg Baste, Ragnhild Bjørknes, Kyrre Breivik, Trine Myrvold, Stine Lehmann - Child & Family Social Work,

This study examined quality of care from the foster parent's perspective and associated characteristics.

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Managing through COVID-19: the experiences of children’s social care in 15 English local authorities
Mary Baginsky and Jill Manthorpe - NIHR Policy Research Unit in Health and Social Care Workforce, The Policy Institute, King’s College London,

This research set out to capture the ways in which adaptations were made by UK local authorities in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. This report is based on the experiences of 15 local authority children’s social care (CSC) departments that volunteered to participate in the research and whose views were captured between late May and early June 2020.

Our HUB model can transform the prospects of young people in care – Lorraine Moore
Lorraine Moore - The Scotsman,

In this opinion piece for the Scotsman, Lorraine Moore, Manager of the Edinburgh-based HUB for SUCCESS, expressed concern over the implications of COVID-19 on children in care and care-experienced young people and proposes a model for addressing the poor educational outcomes for care-experienced people

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The Role of Small-Scale Residential Care for Children in the Transition From Institutional to Community-Based Care and in the Continuum of Care in the Europe and Central Asia Region
Stela Grigoras - UNICEF Europe and Central Asia Regional Office (ECARO),

This White Paper summarizes evidence on the current use and impact of small-scale residential care (also: ‘SSRC’) and offers guidance on how to enable all children to grow up in a loving and stable family environment. It aims to promote better decisionmaking among policy-makers, local governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), as well as child welfare and other, allied practitioners of the establishment.

Bridging the digital divide for care experienced young people in Scotland: If not now, when?
Kenny McGhee and Dr. Autumn Roesch-Marsh - CELCIS / Scottish Care Leavers Covenant,

The briefing begins by providing a brief overview of the current situation for care experienced young people in Scotland, highlighting significant recent developments which provide a context for discussions about the impact of lockdown on care leavers.

Independent Children’s Rights Impact Assessment - for children
Observatory of Children's Human Rights Scotland and Children & Young People's Commissioner Scotland,

This child-friendly Independent Children’s Rights Impact Assessment (CRIA) shows what the Scottish Government still needs to do to protect children’s rights during the coronavirus pandemic.