Beginning the “never-ending” learning process: Training experiences of newly-hired child welfare workers

Melissa Radey & Lauren Stanley - Children and Youth Services Review

This study used qualitative telephone interviews with participants sampled from a statewide cohort of newly-hired, frontline child welfare workers. The authors used thematic analysis to consider participants' training experiences and the conditions that facilitated meaning.

Child Protection With Muslim Communities: Considerations For Non-Muslim-Based Orthodoxies/Paradigms in Child Welfare and Social Work

Patrick O’Leary, Mohamad Abdalla, Aisha Hutchinson, Jason Squire, Amy Young - The British Journal of Social Work

The purpose of this article is to address at a broad level the issue of how overarching concepts of child protection and Islam influence social work practice with Muslim communities.

Could I do something like that? Recruiting and training foster carers for teenagers “at risk” of or experiencing child sexual exploitation

Lucie Shuker & Jenny Pearce - Child & Family Social Work

Using evidence from the evaluation of specialist foster care provision and a child sexual exploitation (CSE) training course for foster carers, this paper [from the Child & Family Social Work special issue on teenagers in foster care] considers how training might be used to widen the pool of potential foster carers for children affected by CSE and identifies qualities displayed by effective carers.

Providing a secure base for LGBTQ young people in foster care: The role of foster carers

Gillian Schofield, Jeanette Cossar, Emma Ward, Birgit Larsson, Pippa Belderson - Child & Family Social Work

This open access paper [from the Child & Family Social Work special issue on teenagers in foster care] reports on findings from the first study of LGBTQ young people in care in England and focuses on the nature of foster carers' experiences and perspectives on caring for LGBTQ young people.

Supporting unaccompanied asylum‐seeking young people: The experience of foster care

Jim Wade - Child & Family Social Work

This paper [from the Child & Family Social Work special issue on teenagers in foster care] reports findings from the first UK study into the experiences of unaccompanied asylum‐seeking young people in the UK, describing issues arising from initial assessment and preparation for fostering and the ways in which young people and foster carers adjusted to their lives together.

A comparison of state support for young people leaving care in Norway and Sweden: Differences within comparable welfare systems

Jan Storø, Yvonne Sjöblom, Ingrid Höjer - Child & Family Social Work

The aim of this article [from the Child & Family Social Work special issue on teenagers in foster care] is to account for and discuss support to young care leavers within the comparable welfare regimes of Norway and Sweden and to explore key differences between these 2 countries.