Question group
Brothers and sisters
Questions in this group:
Brothers and sisters
Maintaining sibling relationships: How do children or young people who are supported to maintain sibling relationships in care describe or value the experience of that relationship? What does it help them with? What is the experience of their sibling(s)?
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Brothers and sisters
Maintaining sibling relationships: How often do separated siblings maintain regular, meaningful contact while experiencing care or adoption, and how does this vary by caring environment, distance, age, and local authority practice?
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Brothers and sisters
Maintaining sibling relationships: Which approaches or supports have been most effective in enabling siblings to live together safely, or in sustaining strong relationships where living together is not possible, when one or both are experiencing the ‘care system’ or are adopted?
Scottish Government The Promise Data and Evidence Group
Brothers and sisters
Sibling separation whilst in the care system: How does the rate and nature of sibling separation for children experiencing care in a cross-border caring environment compare with those experiencing care within the child’s home jurisdiction and closer to home, and how does this vary across different local authorities?
Scottish Government The Promise Data and Evidence Group
Brothers and sisters
Sibling separation whilst in the care system: What proportion of children living cross-border whilst experiencing residential care are separated from their brothers or sisters at the point of entry into the care system, and how does this vary across different local authorities?
Scottish Government The Promise Data and Evidence Group
Brothers and sisters
Sibling separation whilst in the care system: How do permanence planning timescales and legal routes (e.g. compulsory supervision orders, permanence orders, adoption) affect the likelihood and duration of sibling separation?
Scottish Government The Promise Data and Evidence Group
Brothers and sisters
Sibling separation whilst in the care system: How do children understand and make sense of sibling separation, whatever the reason, at different stages of childhood and adolescence, and what supports help mitigate distress or loss?
Scottish Government The Promise Data and Evidence Group
Brothers and sisters
Sibling separation whilst in the care system: How are children’s views and preferences about living with or staying connected to their siblings captured, weighted, and revisited in decision-making processes? How does this vary for sibling-like relationships?
Scottish Government The Promise Data and Evidence Group
Brothers and sisters
Sibling separation whilst in the care system: In cases where siblings do not live together while experiencing the ‘care system’, how are decisions made, what factors are given greatest weight, and to what extent are separation decisions driven by assessed need and children’s safety, as opposed to constraints such as availability of caring environment, capacity, or service structures?
Scottish Government The Promise Data and Evidence Group
Brothers and sisters
Children with a sibling who is experiencing care: What support is provided for pregnancy planning or during pregnancy to parents who have a child who is currently experiencing care away from home? Does this vary by locality, age of the mother, or other characteristics? Does this vary by caring environment where the first child is living whilst experiencing care?
Scottish Government The Promise Data and Evidence Group
Brothers and sisters
Children with a sibling who is experiencing care: In cases where the sibling of a child experiencing the ‘care system’ also begins to experience care, how often do reasons for this differ from first child, how, and in what way? Does this vary by caring environment of first child?
Scottish Government The Promise Data and Evidence Group
Brothers and sisters
Children with a sibling who is experiencing care: To what extent is a child’s likelihood of entering the ‘care system’ influenced by having a sibling who is already in it? Does this vary by maternal or paternal factors, individual child factors/demographics, age at which first child enters the ‘care system’, or birth spacing? Does this vary by caring environment of first child?
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