Children and Young People ‘Looked After’?

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Despite a proliferation of legislative action in response to differential outcomes, the relative educational, employment and lifecourse disadvantages of individuals who have experienced the care system remains a pressing issue of widespread international concern. In Wales, a significant body of work has been produced on and with care-experienced children and young people. This edited collection attempts to highlight these valuable insights in a single volume, with contributions from well-established and early career scholars working in different traditions – including education, psychology, policy studies, sociology and social work – to provide a unique opportunity for reflection across disciplinary boundaries and shed new light on common problems and opportunities stimulated by research in the field of social care. The volume introduces a range of contexts and sites – including the home, the school, alternative educational institutions, contact centres, and the natural environment – and reflexively explores changes and continuities within the political and geographical landscape that constitutes Wales. Each chapter introduces insights, reflections and recommendations about the care system and its impacts, which will be useful for readers across geographical contexts who are concerned with improving the lives of children, young people and wider family networks.

List of figures and tables
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction - Dawn Mannay, Alyson Rees and Louise Roberts
I. Education and policy intervention
2. Charting the rise of children and young people looked
after in Wales - Martin Elliott
3. Educational interventions for children and young people
in care: A review of outcomes, implementation and
acceptability - Gwyther Rees, Rachel Brown, Phil Smith and Rhiannon Evans
4. Exploring the educational attainment and achievement
of children who are ‘looked after’ in formal kinship care - Rebecca C. Pratchett and Paul Rees
5. Promoting the education of children in care: Reflections
of children and carers who have experienced ‘success’ - Paul Rees and Amy Munro
6. Transitions from care to higher education: A case study
of a young person’s journey - Gemma Allnatt
II. The culture of care and the everyday lives of children
and young people
7. The daily lived experiences of foster care: The centrality
of food and touch in family life - Alyson Rees
8. The natural environment and its benefits for children
and young people looked after - Holly Gordon
9. Factors that promote positive supervised birth family
contact for children in care - Joanne Pye and Paul Rees
10. Yet another change: The experience of movement for
children and young people looked after - Rebecca Girling
11. ‘A family of my own’: When young people in and
leaving state care become parents in Wales - Louise Roberts
III. Participatory, qualitative and collaborative approaches
12. Positionality and reflexivity: Conducting qualitative interviews with parents who adopt children from foster care - Claire Palmer
13. Sandboxes, stickers and superheroes: Employing creative techniques to explore the aspirations and experiences of children and young people who are looked after - Dawn Mannay and Eleanor Staples
14. A view from a Pupil Referral Unit: Using participatory methods with young people in an education setting - Phil Smith
15. Enabling care-experienced young people’s participation in research: CASCADE Voices - Eleanor Staples, Louise Roberts, Jennifer Lyttleton-Smith, Sophie Hallett and CASCADE Voices
16. Lights, camera, action: Translating research findings into policy and practice impacts with music, film and artwork - Dawn Mannay, Louisa Roberts, Eleanor Staples and Ministry of Life
IV. Conclusion
17 Conclusion - Dawn Mannay, Alyson Rees and Louise Roberts
Index

Sujets

• Children's Studies
• Social Science
• Sociologie, société et politique

Informations

• Publié par: University of Wales Press
• Date de parution: 15 février 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781786833570
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE LOOKED AFTER ?
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE LOOKED AFTER ?
Education, Intervention and the Everyday Culture of Care in Wales
Edited by Dawn Mannay, Alyson Rees and Louise Roberts -->

UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS 2019
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Contents
List of figures and tables
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
Dawn Mannay, Alyson Rees and Louise Roberts
I. Education and policy intervention

2 Charting the rise of children and young people looked after in Wales
Martin Elliott
3 Educational interventions for children and young people in care: A review of outcomes, implementation and acceptability
Gwyther Rees, Rachel Brown, Phil Smith and Rhiannon Evans
4 Exploring the educational attainment and achievement of children who are looked after in formal kinship care
Rebecca C. Pratchett and Paul Rees
5 Promoting the education of children in care: Reflections of children and carers who have experienced success
Paul Rees and Amy Munro
6 Transitions from care to higher education: A case study of a young person s journey
Gemma Allnatt
II. The culture of care and the everyday lives of children and young people

7 The daily lived experiences of foster care: The centrality of food and touch in family life
Alyson Rees
8 The natural environment and its benefits for children and young people looked after
Holly Gordon
9 Factors that promote positive supervised birth family contact for children in care
Joanne Pye and Paul Rees
10 Yet another change: The experience of movement for children and young people looked after
Rebecca Girling
11 A family of my own : When young people in and leaving state care become parents in Wales
Louise Roberts
III. Participatory, qualitative and collaborative approaches

12 Positionality and reflexivity: Conducting qualitative interviews with parents who adopt children from foster care
Claire Palmer
13 Sandboxes, stickers and superheroes: Employing creative techniques to explore the aspirations and experiences of children and young people who are looked after
Dawn Mannay and Eleanor Staples
14 A view from a Pupil Referral Unit: Using participatory methods with young people in an education setting
Phil Smith
15 Enabling care-experienced young people s participation in research: CASCADE Voices
Eleanor Staples, Louise Roberts, Jennifer Lyttleton-Smith, Sophie Hallett and CASCADE Voices
16 Lights, camera, action: Translating research findings into policy and practice impacts with music, film and artwork
Dawn Mannay, Louisa Roberts, Eleanor Staples and Ministry of Life
IV. Conclusion

17 Conclusion
Dawn Mannay, Alyson Rees and Louise Roberts
Notes
References
List of figures and tables
Figures
2.1 The rates of children looked after per 10,000 child population in England and Wales
2.2 Scatterplot of mean children looked after rates (2010-14) against mean children in need rates (2010-14)
2.3 Mean rates per 10,000 children looked after (2008-14) relative to the proportion of LSOA in 10 per cent most deprived (WIMD, 2014)
10.1 Movement maps of two interviewees narratives
12.1 Pre-adoption experiences in Wales, 1 July 2014 to 31 July 2015 - Wales Adoption Study
13.1 Emotion Sticker Activity
13.2 John s sandbox - help everyone
13.3 Tracey s sandbox - that means bad
15.1 Participation in different stages of the research process
16.1 Aspirations - Artist - DroneBoy Laundry
16.2 Spotlight - Artist - Nathan Bond
Tables
2.1 The ten highest rates per 10,000 by local authority in England and Wales 2010-14
2.2 The number of Welsh local authorities in each quartile by rates per 10,000 (England and Wales)
4.1 Reasons for non-participation
4.2 Literacy and numeracy standardised test scores
4.3 Comparison of literacy of children in formal kinship care and wider care population
List of contributors
GEMMA ALLNATT is a Research Development Officer with the Wales School for Social Care Research at Swansea University. She is also a Ph.D. student in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University. Her research is exploring the perception and experiences of care leavers in higher education. She is a qualified Social Worker. Prior to commencing her doctoral studies Gemma worked in a statutory childcare team and spent a number of years working in a residential unit. This is where her interest in the educational achievement and aspirations of children in care originated. Gemma has worked on a number of research studies, including the Looked After Children and Education project - Understanding the educational experiences and opinions, attainment, achievement and aspirations of looked after children in Wales.
RACHEL BROWN is a Research Associate with Cardiff University School of Social Sciences, based at the DECIPHer research centre. Her research interests are in substance use and young people, with particular focus on the delivery of interventions in complex settings. Her recently completed Ph.D. explored the utilisation of alcohol by new university students and the development of organisational responses to alcohol issues. She has previously worked in both voluntary and statutory substance misuse services, supporting young people with problematic drug and alcohol issues.
CASCADE VOICES is a collaboration between Voices from Care Cymru and CASCADE, Cardiff University. Care-experienced young people are trained in research methods by CASCADE researchers. The group meets every two months and provides advice and consultation on research projects from initial stages of design through to dissemination of findings. Members of the group have also acted as peer researchers and have facilitated focus groups with other care-experienced young people. Since its inception, the group has advised researchers from universities in Wales and Northern Ireland and the third sector, on a range of health and social care topics.
MARTIN ELLIOTT is a Research Development Officer with the Wales School for Social Care Research. A social worker with 17 years statutory children s services experience, including front-line management and practice, contracting and commissioning, and strategic development work, his research interests include: children and young people in out-of-home care; children on the edge of care; social inequality and poverty; and services for disabled children and young people. He has a methodological interest in the use of routinely collected administrative data and quantitative methods.
RHIANNON EVANS is a Senior Lecturer in Social Science and Health at the Centre for the Development and Evaluation of Complex Interventions for Public Health Improvement (DECIPHer) at Cardiff University. She is an affiliated Senior Lecturer at the Children s Social Care Research and Development (CASCADE) Centre. She is also a co-applicant on the What Works Centre for Children s Social Care. Rhiannon s substantive research interests include the mental health and well-being of children and young people, particularly the prevention of self-harm and suicide. She has a methodological interest in the development and evaluation of complex intervention, and systematic reviews.
REBECCA GIRLING is a social worker currently working part-time in front-line children s services around training as part of the Great British Rowing Team. She completed her Masters in Social Work, writing a dissertation that focused on the experiences of children and young people in residential care. Prior to this she worked with young people with autism, living in a residential setting. Rebecca also has a degree in Psychology from Cardiff University.
HOLLY GORDON has 12 years experience as a qualified social worker in Wales. Holly gained a professional doctorate from Keele University and her research explored the identities and perspectives of social workers with environmental interests. Her background is in children s social work, specifically with children and young people who are looked after and care leavers. She has been a trainer-consultant with the British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF) Cymru and the Association for Fostering and Adoption (AFA) Cymru, delivering professional training to social care staff across Wales. Holly is currently employed by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) as a team manager for the Protect and Respect child sexual exploitation service in north Wales
SOPHIE HALLETT is a Lecturer in Social Policy in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University. Sophie s particular focus is on children, young people and social care, and her research interests revolve aro