Questions from the Scottish Government The Promise Data and Evidence Group:
Mental health and wellbeing
Access to, and experience of, services and support: To what extent are identified mental health and emotional wellbeing concerns of care experienced children and young people, including those who have been adopted, met through timely, preventive and ongoing support, as opposed to acute or crisis‑driven services?
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Mental health and wellbeing
Understanding outcomes and experiences: What is the prevalence of mental health and neurodevelopmental conditions among children living cross-border in residential caring environments, compared with those living within their home jurisdiction?
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Mental health and wellbeing
Understanding outcomes and experiences: How do mental health experiences and outcomes vary by age, caring environment, care history, and timing of entry to and exit from care, and which groups show the greatest gaps between identified concerns and access to appropriate support?
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Mental health and wellbeing
Understanding outcomes and experiences: What is the prevalence of mental health conditions and levels of emotional wellbeing observed among care experience children and young people across different ages and care experiences, including adoption (for example through distress, functioning, service contact or self‑reported wellbeing)?
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Restrictive practices
Approaches to minimising use of restraint: How do professionals describe instances where they have avoided or had to resort to restrictive practices? What considerations did they apply? How do they describe their training as preparing them for those events?
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Restrictive practices
Approaches to minimising use of restraint: What are the key challenges to sustaining and scaling trauma-informed restraint, reducing approaches across different settings, and what system-level enablers support long-term change?
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Restrictive practices
Use of restraint: How, where, why and how often are restrictive practices used across different care settings and services (including foster care, education, and health and residential care, including secure care) and what are the key gaps or inconsistencies in current data and recording?
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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?
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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?
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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?
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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?
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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?
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