The Making of a Model: Teacher Education for Looked After Children
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.
Do adolescents in care systematically under-report their mental health difficulties in population studies? A narrative review
The present article reports findings of a narrative review of self- and carer-report mental health data that addressed the research question: Do adolescents who reside in statutory out-of-home care (OOHC) systematically underreport their mental health difficulties in population studies?
Facilitating the Transition of Adolescents and Emerging Adults From Care Into Employment in Kampala, Uganda: A Case Study of Uganda Youth Development Link
This article explores the agency enablers and the factors which hinder adolescents and emerging adults transitioning from care to adulthood, with an emphasis on the transition into work taking a case study of the Uganda Youth Development Link.
Care and Justice: Children and Young People in Care and Contact with the Criminal Justice System
This report presents the findings arising from a small-scale exploratory study commissioned by Irish Penal Reform Trust (IPRT) that aimed to explore the extent to which children with care experience are over-represented in the Irish youth justice system.
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Interventions in Foster Family Care: A Systematic Review
This article presents the findings from a systematic review conducted on interventions for foster children and foster carers.
Care-experienced Young People Accessing Higher Education in Ireland
This brief paper focuses on the question of how care-experienced young people in Ireland fare in accessing opportunities in higher education.
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Educators and Community Partners Support for Youth in and Aging Out of Foster Care
This presentation is the result of a critical discourse analysis study which explored the stories–through interviews, observations, and journals–of three young adult women who aged out of the foster care system in a region of Central Tennessee.
Interventions for reducing violence against children in low- and middle-income countries: an evidence and gap map
This evidence and gap map will provide an overview of the existing systematic reviews and impact evaluations on the key outcome domains and interventions aimed at reducing violence against children in LMICs using an intervention-outcome framework.
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The key therapeutic factors needed to deliver behavioural change interventions to decrease risky substance use (drug and alcohol) for looked after children and care leavers: a qualitative exploration with young people, carers and front line workers
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.
Risk assessment for foster placement breakdown: The predictive value of the strengths and difficulties questionnaire and foster child and foster family characteristics
This study examined the predictive power of the Strength and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) for predicting foster placement breakdown.