• How effective are changes to the (children's) residential care market in ensuring the right number and types of good quality, stable registered places across the country, which provide good value for public money?
Background
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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Related UKRI funded projects
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Bournemouth University And Five Rivers Child Care Limited
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
Why might this be relevant?
The project focuses on evaluating interventions and treatments in residential care for children with complex needs, which is relevant to ensuring good quality care.
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Care pathways and outcomes: The teenage years
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
Why might this be relevant?
The project specifically addresses the stability and outcomes of different care placements for children, directly related to the question.
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Looked-after children in Wales: An analysis of the backgrounds of children entering public care
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
Why might this be relevant?
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.