Factors associated with the decision to investigate child protective services referrals: A systematic review

Jeri L. Damman, Michelle Johnson‐Motoyama, Susan J. Wells, Kelly Harrington - Child & Family Social Work

As part of a larger project on decision‐making at intake, this systematic review addressed the question of the factors associated with worker decisions to investigate alleged maltreatment referrals.

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Interpretation of vulnerability and cumulative disadvantage among unaccompanied adolescent migrants in Greece: A qualitative study

Divya Mishra ,Paul B. Spiegel, Vasileia Lucero Digidiki, Peter J. Winch - PLoS Med

This study examines how the interpretation of vulnerability by the national shelter system for male UAMs in Greece shapes their trajectories into adulthood.

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What Protects Youth Residential Caregivers from Burning Out? A Longitudinal Analysis of Individual Resilience

Nina Kind, David Bürgin, Jörg M. Fegert, and Marc Schmid - International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

This study investigated the association between resilience and burnout in a Swiss population of professional caregivers working in youth residential care.

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Knowledge exchange, foster care and early education: Introducing treasure baskets to foster carers of young children

Claire Cameron, Veena Meetoo, Thure Johansen, Sonia Jackson - Child & Family Social Work

Building on an earlier pilot study where foster carers of young children saw education as something that largely happens outside the home, this paper presents a knowledge exchange project that aimed to build foster carers' self‐concept as educators.

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Twenty-first century contact: the use of mobile communication devices and the internet by young people in care

Jennifer E Simpson - Adoption & Fostering

This article contributes to the growing area of research appertaining to the use of mobile communication devices and the internet by children in care in order to maintain contact with family and friends. It is based on a triadic method of semi-structured interviews with 12 young people and their foster carers and social work practitioners.

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Complex ‘everyday’ lives meet multiple networks: the social and educational lives of young children in foster care and their foster carers

Veena Meetoo, Claire Cameron, Alison Clark, Sonia Jackson - Adoption & Fostering

Using an ethnographic approach including interviews, walks, observation and photomap making, this article reports on the findings from a unique pilot study of the social and educational lives of young foster children (aged 0‒4) in an inner London borough.