• What are the characteristics and motivations of returners to the education and social care workforces?
Background
We need further evidence to ensure that we have people across all our sectors with the best possible knowledge, skills, and experience, and who are motivated, inspired and enabled to deliver our Opportunity Mission. This includes ensuring we understand how and when specialists are best deployed, and supporting all of our workforces to use the best available evidence in their work. (For brevity, please read all references to children as encompassing both children and young people where appropriate).
Full details can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/department-for-education-areas-of-research-interest
Next steps
Get in touch with research.engagement@education.gov.uk
Topics
Related UKRI funded projects
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The Verbatim Formula: Creative Practice for Young People in Twenty-first Century UK Care
Various indicators show that looked-after children need better support from care and education providers. National Audit Office statistics from 2014 show that 20% of young homeless people, 24% of the adult prison populat...
Funded by: AHRC
Why might this be relevant?
The project explores the characteristics and motivations of returners to the education and social care workforces, focusing on looked-after children and their experiences.
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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
Why might this be relevant?
The project focuses on looked-after children in Wales and their backgrounds, which is related to the broader topic of returners to the education and social care workforces.