Kinship Care and Poverty: Using Census Data to Examine the Extent and Nature of Kinship Care in the UK

Nandy, Shailen; Selwyn, Julie

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“…As might be expected, the validity, reliability and trustworthiness of the findings of these sources varied. Some larger studies carried out a primary or secondary analysis of data-sets or census statistics underpinned by robust designs (see Washington et al, 2013;Bertera and Crewe, 2013;Nandy and Selwyn, 2013;Park and Helton, 2010). These sources provided reliable, nationally representative pictures of informal kinship care and its patterns, demographic information and statistical outcomes.…”

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“…These sources provided reliable, nationally representative pictures of informal kinship care and its patterns, demographic information and statistical outcomes. However, some studies were unable to differentiate between formal and informal arrangements on some key variables such as rates of poverty and deprivation (Nandy and Selwyn, 2013) or the legal status defining the relationship between child and caregiver (Minkler and Fuller-Thomson, 2005). A limitation of census review and secondary analysis is that they can operate from fixed, pre-formed schedules which later researchers cannot manipulate or change.…”

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Understanding informal kinship care: a critical narrative review of theory and research

MacDonald¹,

Hayes²,

Houston³

2018

Families, Relationships and Societies

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Many children are cared for on a full-time basis by relatives or adult friends, rather than their biological parents, and often in response to family crises. These kinship care arrangements have received increasing attention from the social science academy and social care professions. However, more information is needed on informal kinship care that is undertaken without official ratification by welfare agencies and often unsupported by the state. This article presents a comprehensive, narrative review of international, research literature on informal, kinship care to address this gap. Using systematic search and review protocols, it synthesises findings regarding: (i) the way that informal kinship care is defined and conceptualised; (ii) the needs of the carers and children; and (iii) ways of supporting this type of care. A number of prominent themes are highlighted including the lack of definitional clarity; the various adversities experienced by the families; and the requirement to understand the interface between formal and informal supports. Key messages are finally identified to inform the development of family friendly policies, interventions, and future research.

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Understanding informal kinship care: a critical narrative review of theory and research

MacDonald¹,

Hayes²,

Houston³

2018

Families, Relationships and Societies

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“…Notwithstanding the strong affirmation of kinship care as an option within a rights-based child welfare perspective, the challenges have also been acknowledged -not least the impact of poverty (Nandy and Selwyn, 2013). Proponents of increased reliance on kinship care therefore also advocate for the development of support services for the carers, including pensions and other benefits that allow their children to access education and health services.…”

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“…This found that most of the However the study also found . Despite informal kinship care offering an important form of alternative care for many children, this care option has not been closely studied and as such, not yet well understood (Nandy and Selwyn, 2013).…”

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Developing family-based care: complexities in implementing the UN Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children

Davidson

Milligan

Quinn

et al. 2016

European Journal of Social Work

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“…For example, apart from parents, grandparents may also care for grandchildren whose parents are unable or unwilling to do so, either as "kinship care-givers" where arrangements are made by social services (Farmer and Moyers 2008) or in households where grandparents and grandchildren live together without a parent present (Nandy and Selwyn 2011). In reality, cultural transmission and language acquisition may span more than two generations.…”

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Towards a Theoretical Framework for Analyzing Complex Linguistic Networks

Mehler¹,

Lcking²,

Banisch³

et al. 2016

Understanding Complex Systems

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Complexity is an interdisciplinary program publishing the best research and academiclevel teaching on both fundamental and applied aspects of complex systems-cutting across all traditional disciplines of the natural and life sciences, engineering, economics, medicine, neuroscience, social and computer science.Complex Systems are systems that comprise many interacting parts with the ability to generate a new quality of macroscopic collective behavior the manifestations of which are the spontaneous formation of distinctive temporal, spatial or functional structures. Models of such systems can be successfully mapped onto quite diverse "real-life" situations like the climate, the coherent emission of light from lasers, chemical reaction-diffusion systems, biological cellular networks, the dynamics of stock markets and of the internet, earthquake statistics and prediction, freeway traffic, the human brain, or the formation of opinions in social systems, to name just some of the popular applications.Although their scope and methodologies overlap somewhat, one can distinguish the following main concepts and tools: self-organization, nonlinear dynamics, synergetics, turbulence, dynamical systems, catastrophes, instabilities, stochastic processes, chaos, graphs and networks, cellular automata, adaptive systems, genetic algorithms and computational intelligence.The three major book publication platforms of the Springer Complexity program are the monograph series "Understanding Complex Systems" focusing on the various applications of complexity, and the "Springer Series in Synergetics", which is devoted to the quantitative theoretical and methodological foundations, and the "SpringerBriefs in Complexity" which are concise and topical working reports, case-studies, surveys, essays and lecture notes of relevance to the field. In addition to the books in these two core series, the program also incorporates individual titles ranging from textbooks to major reference works.Future scientific and technological developments in many fields will necessarily depend upon coming to grips with complex systems. Such systems are complex in both their composition-typically many different kinds of components interacting simultaneously and nonlinearly with each other and their environments on multiple levels-and in the rich diversity of behavior of which they are capable.The Springer Series in Understanding Complex Systems series (UCS) promotes new strategies and paradigms for understanding and realizing applications of complex systems research in a wide variety of fields and endeavors. UCS is explicitly transdisciplinary. It has three main goals: First, to elaborate the concepts, methods and tools of complex systems at all levels of description and in all scientific fields, especially newly emerging areas within the life, social, behavioral, economic, neuro-and cognitive sciences (and derivatives thereof); second, to encourage novel applications of these ideas in various fields of engineering and computation such as robotics, nano-technology...

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Kinship Care and Poverty: Using Census Data to Examine the Extent and Nature of Kinship Care in the UK

Cited by 42 publications

References 5 publications

Understanding informal kinship care: a critical narrative review of theory and research

Understanding informal kinship care: a critical narrative review of theory and research

Developing family-based care: complexities in implementing the UN Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children

Towards a Theoretical Framework for Analyzing Complex Linguistic Networks

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