Improving Outcomes for Looked After Children: A practical guide to raising aspirations and achievement - eBook
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Publisher: Optimus Education eBooks
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Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 1907567216
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Improving Outcomes for Looked After Children
Author: Jacqui Horsburgh
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Published: 2022-05-11
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 1800710801
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProviding support for practitioners and leaders at all levels in education, this book discusses why there is a need to rethink how we provide support for looked after children and young people in a positive way that will encourage a path into education, training, or employment when they leave school.
Children and Young People Looked After?
Author: Dawn Mannay
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Published: 2019-02-15
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 1786833573
DOWNLOAD EBOOK1. The book sets a context for the background of the care population in Wales, and charts research that explores educational experiences, outcomes, and the interventions put in place that seek to alleviate the educational disadvantages experienced by children and young people in care. 2. The book draws on empirical research to explore the lived experiences of care experienced children and young people, in a range of contexts and sites, including the home, the school, alternative educational institutions, contact centres, and the natural environment. 3. The book documents the ‘doing’ of research and methodological approaches that work directly with participants, involving participatory, qualitative, reflexive and collaborative techniques and innovative research methodologies.
Putting Corporate Parenting into Practice, Second Edition
Author: Di Hart
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Published: 2013-06-05
Total Pages: 105
ISBN-13: 1909391131
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn spite of considerable attention in recent years, there continues to be a gap between the outcomes of looked after children and those of their peers. There is more to being a good parent than keeping children safe - every child needs to feel that parents are 'there' for them, including children in the care system. The complication for children in care is that those responsible are the elected members and officers of the local authority. With an emphasis on practical tools and training materials, this new edition will support the implementation of corporate parenting across the local authority by focusing on the leadership and commitment that members and officers can provide. This new edition is essential reading for all local councillors and supports elected members and council officers to ensure that they fulfil their role as corporate parents. It sets out the responsibilities of a corporate parent, together with practical exercises and briefings to support effective practice.
The Education of Children and Young People in State Care
Author: Sonia Jackson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-10-02
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 1317388992
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYoung people who leave care with few or no educational qualifications are at very high risk of social exclusion in adulthood. Yet in the past their education has attracted little attention from researchers or professionals. Studies by the editors and contributors to this volume show that the educational standards attained by young people in care fall progressively behind those of their peers living with their own families. This research-based book looks at the educational experiences of children and youths in nine different European countries and Canada. It identifies the obstacles that prevent them from realising their aspirations and discusses ways of improving their opportunities. How can countries with different traditions, welfare regimes and administrative systems learn from each other? What needs to be done at national, local and individual levels to give children in care equal chances with those living with their families? At present a child in public care is five times less likely to go to university than others. How can teachers, social workers and carers better support their educational attainment, and enable more of them to succeed and progress to tertiary education? This book was originally published as a special issue of the European Journal of Social Work.
The Education of Children in Care
Author: Sonia Jackson
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Published: 1987-01-01
Total Pages: 41
ISBN-13: 9780862922979
DOWNLOAD EBOOKImproving Access to Further and Higher Education for Young People in Public Care
Author: Sonia Jackson
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Published: 2014-06-21
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 0857007416
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAcross Europe young people in public care are around five times less likely to attend tertiary education than those who have not been in care. This book provides a comprehensive account of why this shocking discrepancy exists and outlines ways to address the imbalance. Drawing extensively on a substantial three-year long European Union funded research project led by the authors, this book examines the participation of young people in care in further and higher education in Europe. It provides a historical and legislative overview of the topic and in-depth national case studies look at the situation in England, Denmark, Sweden, Spain and Hungary. The authors set out clearly what we can learn from these cross-national comparisons and how to create more equal opportunities for children and young people in care. This important book will be essential reading for researchers and policy makers working on child welfare or young people in care, including government and local authority policy-makers, managers of children's and education services, school governors, and academics working in the fields of education, sociology, psychology, social work and social policy.
Child Protection and the Care Continuum
Author: Elizabeth Fernandez
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-11-25
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 1000281337
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis important new book critically examines the complex policy and practice issues surrounding child protection, including the impact of theoretical orientations, contemporary debates, policy initiatives and research findings, and maintains an emphasis on the ethics and values underpinning child welfare interventions. The book introduces policies that are central to understanding the position and needs of children and young people, and how policy and practice have been influenced by developments including the children’s rights agenda. It also explores the most significant issues in child welfare. These include: the experience of maltreatment by children, the systems of child protection to safeguard them, the methods and challenges of risk assessment, and the wide range of policy and therapeutic interventions to respond to children’s needs. The book also examines family support to promote children’s wellbeing before considering provision for children and young people who are looked after in out-of-home care. There is also a final section that focuses on best practice in communicating and working with children and young people, drawing on participatory, rights-oriented and resilience-based approaches, and supporting foster and adoptive carers and biological parents. Contributing in a substantive and clear manner to a growing international conversation about the present function and future directions for child welfare in contemporary societies, this textbook will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate social work students and those from allied disciplines, and professionals who are engaged in child welfare services.
Social Work with Children, Young People and their Families in Scotland
Author: Steve Hothersall
Publisher: Learning Matters
Published: 2014-04-22
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0857257951
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis fully-updated and revised third edition addresses the changes to law and practice in relation to adoption and permanency, the children’s hearing system and the implications of the provisions of the Children and Young People (S) Act 2014 and other related matters, including the National Practice Model of GIRFEC. This is the only text to provide coverage of the new legal, policy and practice landscape of social work with children and families in Scotland, and as such, it is an indispensable guide for students, newly-qualified social workers, managers and practice teachers and a range of other professionals in health, education, the police and others in cognate disciplines.
OECD Public Governance Reviews Northern Ireland (United Kingdom): Implementing Joined-up Governance for a Common Purpose
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2016-07-06
Total Pages: 516
ISBN-13: 9264260013
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNorthern Ireland is currently undertaking public administration reforms. This report highlights areas where Northern Ireland possesses strengths upon which to build reforms and suggests actions for the future.
