Young people leaving care:

Stein, Mike

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“…This is supported by other research evidence (Stein, 2004;National Care Advisory Service 2009). However, the emphasis the peer researchers placed on this did illuminate the need for foster carers to be proactive about making contact with young people and inviting them around.…”

Section: Data Quality: Validity and Reliabilitymentioning

confidence: 81%

Participatory peer research methodology: An effective method for obtaining young people’s perspectives on transitions from care to adulthood?

Lushey

Munro

2014

Qualitative Social Work

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Peer research has the potential to empower young people to participate in research by minimising power imbalances between researchers and participants; this may reduce bias and promote improved understanding to inform policy and practice.However, these benefits are not automatic; the relative inexperience of peer researchers adds layers of complexity to the research process. Moreover, the validity of findings from research adopting less traditional methods may be questioned and policy makers may be cautious about accepting this evidence, thus limiting its contribution and impact. This paper explores the advancement of participatory peer researcher methodology in research with children in and leaving care and ethical, practical and data quality issues that arose in two studies exploring young people's transitions from care to adulthood. It concludes that the peer research methodology can yield rich data but that adequate resources and effective research management are crucial. The 2 authors also caution against a reductionist approach that privileges peer research methodology above other methods of inquiry in the study of transitions from care to adulthood.

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Section: Data Quality: Validity and Reliabilitymentioning

confidence: 81%

Participatory peer research methodology: An effective method for obtaining young people’s perspectives on transitions from care to adulthood?

Lushey

Munro

2014

Qualitative Social Work

101

106

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“…This view is supported by attachment theory, which holds that stable and long-term relationships are more positive for the development of the child (Nienstedt & Westermann, 1999;Oosterman et al, 2007). Also, studies have shown stability has a positive impact on the long-term consequences of foster and residential care placements (Jackson & Cameron, 2012;Stein, 2006;Stein, 2012;Ward, 2009). …”

Section: Positive Reversal and Concealmentmentioning

confidence: 95%

Acknowledging the Complexity of Processes Leading to Foster Care Breakdown

Bombach

Gabriel

Stohler

2018

IJCYFS

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Family-based solutions for children in care are the preferred option in European countries on the grounds of both cost and quality. Yet, too often, foster care placements intended to be long term are terminated unexpectedly early. Few studies have identified factors leading to unexpected breakdown and fewer still have translated such findings into practical guidance for professionals. This article outlines: (a) the ambiguity and contradictions in the use of terminology (e.g., instability, breakdown, disruption) in several international studies; (b) the adoption of a one-sided, file-based, systemic perspective in recent studies of foster care instability, breakdown, and disruption; and (c) empirical data collected from interviews with foster children. Foster care breakdown is shown to be a process that takes place on several levels. In addition to the actual breakdown event, the situation of the child before the placement, the situation during the placement, the emergence and development of the crisis and the consequences of the breakdown for all those involved are all part of the process. It is only in retrospect that the ending of a foster care process is perceived as a breakdown. Assessments of whether it was planned or unplanned, expected or unexpected, and desirable or undesirable are meaningful only from an individual perspective. Such a perspective must be clearly identified: different people experience and remember the same breakdown in different ways, and its significance for their personal biographies may vary.Keywords: foster care, breakdown, placement change, perspective of foster children Clara Bombach MA (the corresponding author) is a research associate at

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“…example, report that two-thirds of their sample had moved once and 24% three or more times within six months of leaving care. It has been shown, both in surveys of care leavers (Simon, 2008;Stein et al, 2000) and LAC from NBCSs (Viner and Taylor, 2005), that a high proportion of these children experience homelessness. The young adults we interviewed are broadly similar to their peers from group homes who also tend to live in a quite wide range of different types of accommodation after leaving care (Simon, 2008;Wade and Dixon, 2006).…”

Section: Accommodationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It is probable that age accounts for at least some of the differences we have highlighted, with older care leavers, such as those in our research, being less likely to live at home. Contact can be regular even when children do not return to live with their family (Stein, Pinkerton and Kelleher, 2000;Dixon, 2008b). Dixon, for example, found that of 107 young people from three local authorities 'almost all (95%) of those leaving residential care were in contact with family' p.85).…”

Section: Family Contactmentioning

confidence: 99%

Outcomes among young adults placed in therapeutic residential care as children

Gallagher

Green

2013

Journal of Children's Services

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specialises in research on child protection and looked after children, but also carries out studies into child victimisation and child welfare more generally. Adam Green is a qualified social worker and was a manager in a private organisation providing therapeutic residential care to severely maltreated children. He now works as an independent social work consultant to a range of children's organisations in the public, voluntary and private sector. AcknowledgementsWe would like to thank all of the young people and adults who took part in this study for their willingness to discuss their lives in The Orchards and their lives currently; thereby making this important research possible. We would also like to thank all those who helped facilitate contact with these young people and adults. This aim of this paper is to advance knowledge concerning outcomes among the former residents of therapeutic children's homes, especially those located in England. Sixteen young adults who had been resident in one of seven therapeutic houses took part in interviews. It appeared, from the information they gave in these interviews, that their outcomes were good in terms of their emotional and behavioural well-being, physical health, accommodation, and absence of early parenthood and substance use. Some of the young adults also had good outcomes in respect of their education and absence of criminal convictions. A small number of the young adults did less well on these latter two measures but few of them were particularly poor in either of these respects. The young adults had limited contact with their family members. The evidence from this research is that young adults who have been in therapeutic residential care can have good outcomes. Summary• Young adults placed as children in therapeutic residential establishments can have good outcomes in terms of their emotional and behavioural well-being, physical health, accommodation, and absence of early parenthood and substance use.• Some of these young adults can also have good outcomes in respect of their education and the absence of criminal convictions but for other former residents these outcomes are not as good, although none are very poor on either of these measures.• The young adults have limited contact with family members.• Policy makers and practitioners should continue to consider the placement of children in therapeutic residential establishments, especially where those children have acute emotional and behavioural needs that arise out of severe maltreatment.

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Young people leaving care:

Cited by 35 publications

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Participatory peer research methodology: An effective method for obtaining young people’s perspectives on transitions from care to adulthood?

Participatory peer research methodology: An effective method for obtaining young people’s perspectives on transitions from care to adulthood?

Acknowledging the Complexity of Processes Leading to Foster Care Breakdown

Outcomes among young adults placed in therapeutic residential care as children

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