This Thank You is intended for the thousands of people who contributed to the Scottish Independent Care Review. It describes the process of the Care Review and lists the names of many of the organizations and individuals who were involved.

One of several reports produced as part of the Scottish Independent Care Review, this report demonstrates the current legislative framework of the Scottish care system and how it must change to achieve The Promise.

One of several reports produced as part of the Scottish Independent Care Review, this report explains how Scotland can invest better in its children and families. 

This paper was written by Dr Katherine Trebeck and is her reflections on what was found as a result of the work done to Follow the Money, the report of the Independent Care Review that produced the financial argument needed to challenge the way Scotland invests in its ‘care system’.

One of several reports produced as part of the Scottish Independent Care Review, The Plan outlines how to implement the changes recommended in The Promise.

One of several reports produced as part of the Scottish Independent Care Review, The Pinky Promise presents a young reader-friendly version of The Promise report, which sets out an overall view of what the new approach to children's care in Scotland should be.

One of several reports produced as part of the Scottish Independent Care Review, The Promise sets out an overall view of what the new approach to children's care in Scotland should be.

This study used wave 2 of the U.S. National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being II (NSCAW II) to develop a new typology of kinship care based on financial mechanisms, including: (1) families that received Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) only; (2) families that received foster care payments only; (3) families that received both TANF benefits and foster care payments; and (4) families that received no payments.

The Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children has launched the Global Report 2019, tracking progress towards universal prohibition of corporal punishment.

This guidance provides local authorities and health boards, working in partnership with other public bodies and organisations, with information and advice about how they should exercise the functions conferred by Part 3 (Children’s Services Planning) of the Act.

This report draws attention to themes emerging from notifications of the deaths of 61 care experienced children and young people over seven years from 2012 to 2018.

This document sets out the Scottish Funding Council's National Ambition for Care-Experienced Students for the college and university sectors, outlining their commitment to equal outcomes for care-experienced students and their peers by 2030.

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This article explores the extent of previous child welfare involvement and its association with well-being among children in informal kinship care.

This article provides a historical context and describes numerous provisions of the family group conference that protect participants and the proceedings. It then describes applications of FGC‐like approaches in the United States where practice models and policies—not laws—guide the implementation of such approaches.

In this article the authors look for a suitable method which takes account of power relations while investigating young people's perspectives on their everyday lives.

The current study provides a more nuanced account of foster youth with disabilities’ transitions into adulthood.

A qualitative program evaluation was conducted, including focus groups with 36 parenting young women who had participated in Passport to Parenting (P2P) initiative services and interviews with 11 key staff of the three partnering agencies.

This qualitative study explored the accounts of 50 residential childcare staff in Saudi Arabia, aiming to identify ways in which staff and residential institutions may function as attachment objects for the children in their care.

This study aimed to examine how organizational factors, particularly leadership, affect child welfare worker turnover intentions in order to help child welfare agencies establish a practice model that prevents the turnover of qualified workers.

This article describes an integrated three-phase approach to the identification of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) and psychiatric comorbidity for children and youth in care, consisting of: (1) completion of a standardized neurobehavioral screening tool by a child protection worker (CPW); (2) assessment by a pediatrician, including facial measurements and; (3) integration of findings in a psychiatric assessment.

In this study, comparative analysis and linear mixed modeling with propensity score matching were used to identify the extent to which students involved with child protection service (CPS) utilized an inter-district open enrollment option and to examine their academic achievement before and after switching schools.

This study employed a mixed-methods approach to examine process findings from a randomized control trial from the first county-level Pay for Success initiative, Partnering for Family Success.

The current study begins to address a gap in the literature by examining the association of income instability and child maltreatment in a sample of low-income families deflected from Child Protective Services.