Systematic review of the educational experiences of children in care: Children’s perspectives

Indra M. Townsend, Emily P. Berger, Andrea E. Reupert - Children and Youth Services Review

This systematic review of qualitative research aimed to identify and synthesise the findings of relevant studies that documented the experiences of children in care in regard to their school experiences.

The effect of supervisory neglect on adolescent peer victimization: Mediating role of self-esteem and internalizing problems

Seunghee Baeg, Boram Lee, Hye Jun Park - Children and Youth Services Review

In this study, the authors aim to help clarify the pathway from parental supervisory neglect to peer victimization through the mediating roles of self-esteem and internalizing problems among adolescents in South Korea.

Understanding the Link between Children’s Living Arrangements and Children’s Vulnerability, Care, and Well-being: The Role of Household-based Surveys

Mona Mehta Steffen, Jeffrey D. Edmeades, Kerry L. D. MacQuarrie, Laurie DeRose, Florence Martin and Thomas W. Pullum

This paper examines the role that household surveys – such as the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) – can play in increasing our understanding of the influence of living arrangements on children’s vulnerability, care, and well-being.

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Sibling separation and self-reported offending: An examination of the association between sibling placement and offending behavior

Abigail Novak & Kristen Benedini - Children and Youth Services Review

This study uses data from the National Study of Child and Adolescent Well-Being II (NSCAW II) to examine the relationship between separation from siblings in out-of-home care and subsequent offending behavior in adolescence.

Working together to keep children and families safe: Strategies for developing collaborative competence

Rhys Price-Robertson, Deborah Kirkwood, Adam Dean, Teresa Hall, Nicole Paterson and Karen Broadley - Child Family Community Australia | information exchange

This practice paper focuses on improving cross-sectoral relationships between child protection and child and family welfare practitioners, who are often required to work together to keep children and families safe.

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Autobiographical Memory Impairment in Adolescents in Out-of-Home Care

María Verónica Jimeno, Jose Miguel Latorre, María José Cantero - Journal of Interpersonal Violence

In this study, autobiographical memory tests, working memory, and a depressive symptom assessment were administered to 48 adolescents in care with a history of maltreatment (22 abused and 26 neglected) without mental disorder, who had been removed from their family and were living in residential child care, and to 61 adolescents nonmaltreated who had never been placed in care.

The psychosocial wellbeing of orphans: The case of early school leavers in socially depressed environment in Mpumalanga Province, South Africa

Busisiwe Ntuli, Mathildah Mokgatle, Sphiwe Madiba - PLoS ONE

This paper describes how experiencing maternal death affects the psychosocial wellbeing of orphaned youth who left school before completing high school.

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Screening for infection in unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and young people

Bhanu Williams, Mary Boullier, Zoe Cricks, Allison Ward, Ronelle Naidoo, Amanda Williams, Kim Robinson, Sarah Eisen, Jonathan Cohen - Archives of Disease in Childhood

The authors of this study aimed to evaluate a screening programme for infection in unaccompanied asylum seeking children and young people against national guidance and to describe the rates of identified infection in the cohort.

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Delivering an Integrated Adolescent Multi-Agency Specialist Service to Families with Adolescents at Risk of Care: Outcomes and Learning from the First Ten Years

Laura Talbot, Peter Fuggle, Zoe Foyston, Kim Lawson - The British Journal of Social Work

This article presents a ten-year service evaluation of the Adolescent Multi-Agency Specialist Service (AMASS), an edge of care service based within Islington Children’s Services.