What happens in the home is a key driver of school experiences and attainment, and influences choices and outcomes. Keeping children safe from emotional and physical harm, tackling child poverty and supporting families will relieve pressure across the system and enable children to learn and thrive. This also contributes to the Safe Streets mission. We are interested in all types of safety including safeguarding at home and in care and online safety.
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To research, develop and implement an innovative model for the evaluation of 'intervention and treatment' to support the residential care of children with complex needs....
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY
The project focuses on evaluating interventions and treatments in residential care for children with complex needs, which is related to ensuring good quality and stable registered places.
Across the UK, when children enter care, they live in a range of different placements, such as foster care, kinship care (with relatives or friends), adoption or with their birth parents. However, adoptive placements are...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Ulster
The project specifically addresses the stability and outcomes of different care placements for children, directly related to the question.
The doctoral research around which my fellowship is centred explored the differences between local authorities in Wales in the rates at which they place children in out of home care, referred to as being a 'looked after'...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: CARDIFF UNIVERSITY
The project analyzes the backgrounds of children entering public care in Wales, which provides insights into placement practices and outcomes, though not directly addressing the question.