Questions from the Scottish Government The Promise Data and Evidence Group:
Transition to young adulthood (Continuing Care and Aftercare)
Outcomes and longer-term impacts: Are young people who lived cross-border whilst experiencing care more likely to experience temporary or unstable accommodation, forced returns to their home jurisdiction, or gaps between leaving a caring environment and receiving housing support?
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Transition to young adulthood (Continuing Care and Aftercare)
Outcomes and longer-term impacts: How do longer-term outcomes for care experienced young people who take up continuing care compare with those who do not, across domains such as housing stability, education and employment, health and wellbeing, relationships, and independence? What does this suggest about the role of continuing care in supporting transitions to adulthood?
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Transition to young adulthood (Continuing Care and Aftercare)
Outcomes and longer-term impacts: What evidence exists on the longer‑term impacts of sustained aftercare support into adulthood, particularly beyond age 21, and where are the key gaps in follow‑up evidence?
Scottish Government The Promise Data and Evidence Group
Transition to young adulthood (Continuing Care and Aftercare)
Outcomes and longer-term impacts: How do outcomes for care experienced young people who receive different types or levels of aftercare support vary across housing stability, education and employment, health and wellbeing, and justice involvement?
Scottish Government The Promise Data and Evidence Group
Transition to young adulthood (Continuing Care and Aftercare)
Joined up support: How do transitions from children’s to adult mental health services affect continuity, accessibility, and quality of support for care experienced young people, and what barriers and enablers influence whether support is sustained during and after this transition?
Scottish Government The Promise Data and Evidence Group
Transition to young adulthood (Continuing Care and Aftercare)
Joined up support: How well aligned are aftercare supports with services in education, employment, housing, health, and justice, and where do gaps in coordination create risks for young people leaving care?
Scottish Government The Promise Data and Evidence Group
Transition to young adulthood (Continuing Care and Aftercare)
Joined up support: To what extent are care experienced young people who do not take up aftercare or continuing care receiving adequate, appropriate support from other universal or specialist services, and how well do these supports align with their needs, preferences, and circumstances?
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Transition to young adulthood (Continuing Care and Aftercare)
Access to and uptake of continuing care and aftercare: How well do transitions from residential care align with young people’s developmental readiness, rather than age-based thresholds?
Scottish Government The Promise Data and Evidence Group
Transition to young adulthood (Continuing Care and Aftercare)
Access to and uptake of continuing care and aftercare: How consistently are entitlements to continuing care and aftercare understood and applied when young people are living outside their home local authority or nation whilst experiencing care?
Scottish Government The Promise Data and Evidence Group
Transition to young adulthood (Continuing Care and Aftercare)
Access to and uptake of continuing care and aftercare: How do pathways into continuing care and aftercare differ for young people living cross-border in residential caring environments with those living within their home jurisdiction?
Scottish Government The Promise Data and Evidence Group
Transition to young adulthood (Continuing Care and Aftercare)
Access to and uptake of continuing care and aftercare: How are children and young people’s disengagement from aftercare services identified and responded to in practice, including how decisions are made about whether and when re‑engagement or additional support is appropriate, and what factors are associated with successful re‑engagement where this is pursued? How does this vary across local authority areas?
Scottish Government The Promise Data and Evidence Group
Transition to young adulthood (Continuing Care and Aftercare)
Access to and uptake of continuing care and aftercare: Which young people are least likely to access or remain engaged with aftercare support (for example by age, care history, length of time since they last experienced care, caring environment), and why?
Scottish Government The Promise Data and Evidence Group
Transition to young adulthood (Continuing Care and Aftercare)
Access to and uptake of continuing care and aftercare: How do local practices in relation to supporting transitions to continuing care vary across areas, and how are these variations associated with patterns of uptake?
Scottish Government The Promise Data and Evidence Group
Transition to young adulthood (Continuing Care and Aftercare)
Access to and uptake of continuing care and aftercare: How do needs assessment processes for accessing aftercare support vary across local areas in terms of thresholds, waiting times, and delivery approaches, and what are the associated resource requirements (including staff time and costs)?
Scottish Government The Promise Data and Evidence Group
Transition to young adulthood (Continuing Care and Aftercare)
Access to and uptake of continuing care and aftercare: How consistently are care experienced young people informed about, offered, and supported to access aftercare and continuing care, and what factors influence take‑up across different groups of young people?
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Justice
Children with care experience as victims of crime: How do experiences of victimisation and exploitation intersect with subsequent justice involvement or criminalisation of care experienced children, and what opportunities exist to intervene earlier to prevent harm and escalation?
Scottish Government The Promise Data and Evidence Group
Justice
Children with care experience as victims of crime: How do children experiencing the ‘care system’ view and understand involvement with police, courts, and victim support services following victimisation, and what impacts do these experiences have on trust, wellbeing, and future engagement with services?
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Justice
Children with care experience as victims of crime: What supports or practices have been most effective in enabling children experiencing the ‘care system’ to disclose victimisation safely and in ensuring they are supported through justice, safeguarding, and recovery processes?
Scottish Government The Promise Data and Evidence Group