What factors and practices are local authorities adopting to ensure effective sufficiency planning that leads to children and young people’s needs being met?
Background
Children’s outcomes are strongly shaped by the love, stability and support provided by their family and wider family networks or in their care placement. Our research interest in this area focuses on understanding the following:
-what enables effective and timely family help, in order to keep children and young people with their families wherever possible
-how safe, loving and stable relationships are sustained for children and young people known to children’s social care
-what contributes to children and young people entering into or moving within the care system.
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Comparing health outcomes for care experienced children and children in the general population in Scotland using linked administrative data
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Why might this be relevant?
The project directly addresses the health outcomes and care experiences of children in the care system, which aligns with the question's focus on sufficiency planning for children and young people.
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Looked-after children in Wales: An analysis of the backgrounds of children entering public care
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Why might this be relevant?
While the project focuses on looked-after children in Wales, it provides insights into social work practices and rates of children in care, which are relevant to sufficiency planning for children and young people.
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Development of a research-ready dataset linking data on children and young people in London held by Local Authorities and healthcare providers
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Why might this be relevant?
The project aims to develop a research-ready dataset linking data on children and young people, which can provide valuable insights into effective interventions to improve children's outcomes, aligning with sufficiency planning needs.