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Young people in care and care leavers want to know that their corporate parents (the local authority, collectively with other relevant services) will care for them and do their best for them. In this, one of the largest peer research studies, we report if, and how, this is being achieved. Our research provides an update…

This literature review is one of a series of projects jointly commissioned by DCSF and DH to improve the evidence base on recognition, effective intervention and inter-agency working in child abuse and explores the concept of ‘neglect’ as it applies to adolescents. This is a significant under-explored area in the UK. The literature review draws…

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This is a readable book which would be useful to any person who is trying to support a young person leaving care Más información

Insights from young people on leaving care in albania, the czech republic, finland, and poland when-care-ends

The purpose of this research is to characterise the internal conversations of individual young people in transition from state care, with a goal of supporting practitioners’ approaches to ‘pathway planning’, and contributing to theories of agency in emerging adulthood under conditions of long-term adversity. We used Margaret Archer’s theory of agency, in which internal conversations…

How do we promote the resilience of young people leaving care, a group identified in the international literature as among the most excluded young people in society? In exploring this question the present article will begin by defining resilience and summarising the factors associated with the resilience of young people from disadvantaged family backgrounds. This…

Review of policy and program approaches in Australia and overseas uccypf-young-people-transitiioning-from-oohc-to-adulthood