The Narrative Model for communicating with looked after children about challenging issues
This article summarises the Narrative Model and shows how it supports placement stability for children.
The Adopting Together Service: how innovative collaboration is meeting the needs of children in Wales waiting the longest to find a family
This article describes a major development in child care practice in Wales that has occurred over the past two years. The Adopting Together Service (ATS) involves a unique, innovative and multi-layered collaboration between the voluntary adoption agencies (VAAs – non-governmental charities) and regional adoption teams (statutory agencies) to secure permanence for children who wait the longest to find families.
The endings of journeys: A qualitative study of how Greece’s child protection system shapes unaccompanied migrant children’s futures
This study explores how male unaccompanied migrant children’s interactions with child protection staff in Greece shape their future trajectories as migrants.
Maltreatment and youth self-representations in residential care: The moderating role of individual and placement variables
The objective of this study was to explore the effects of previous maltreatment on current self-representations (i.e., the attributes used to describe oneself) of youth in residential care and the moderating role of gender, age, number of previous placements and length of placement in residential care.
Managing through COVID-19: the experiences of children’s social care in 15 English local authorities
Managing through COVID-19: the experiences of children’s social care in 15 English local authorities
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.
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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
This study aims at examining if processes proposed by self-determination theory (SDT) are supported in a foster care sample.
Family Environment Characteristics and Mental Health Outcomes for Youth in Foster Care: Traditional and Group-Care Placements
This study explored how youth and foster caregivers perceive new foster care environments and how cohesion and conflict within the foster care setting (i.e., traditional or group-care) may be impacting youths’ mental health.
Indiscriminate friendliness in foster children: Associations with attachment security, foster parents’ sensitivity, and child inhibitory control
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.
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Differences and disparities over time: Black and White families investigated by Ontario’s child welfare system
This paper compares incidence data on Black and White families investigated by Ontario’s child welfare system over a 20-year period.