research in practice

1. In Loco Parentis
(Research & Policy Updates/consultations)

... people still experience’. It draws on best practice and case studies to present a series of recommendations intended to promote permanency (where appropriate), stability of good quality placements and ...

2. International Advances in Adoption Research for Practice
(Research & Policy Updates/books)

... homes. Of the 161 in the sample, 74 (46%) were aged between 5 and 8 at placement, 39 (24%) were between 9 and 12, and 6 (4%) were between 13 and 17. As age at placement is seen as a critical predictive ...

3. How to Think about Caring for a Child with Difficult Behaviour: A handbook and workbook for adoptive parents, foster parents, carers and therapists
(Research & Policy Updates/books)

... might help to prevent the breakdown of placements in the care system. It would certainly be worth evaluating the impact/use of this handbook/workbook where an existing placement is under threat. Research, ...

4. Policy and Practice Implications from the English and Romanian Adoptees (ERA) Study: Forty five key questions
(Research & Policy Updates/books)

...  What of the adoptive families who took on the challenges of caring for these children? The ‘children’s remarkable degree of recovery following placement in their adoptive families says volumes for the ...

5. Building a Safe and Confident Future: Implementing the recommendations of the Social Work Task Force
(Research & Policy Updates/initiatives)

... initial education curriculum, the length and expectations of practice placements and the impact of the current bursary system will also be reviewed, with new arrangements phased in from September 2012 ...

6. Draft Regulations, and Associated Statutory Guidance regarding Accommodated Children in Long-term Residential Placements: Visiting and support arrangements
(Research & Policy Updates/consultations)

This consultation invites views on draft regulations and statutory guidance intended to reinforce local authorities’ existing duties to safeguard and promote the welfare of children accommodated in residential ...

7. The Care Placements Evaluation (CaPE): Evaluation of Multi-dimensional Treatment Foster Care in England (MTFCE)
(Research & Policy Updates/commissions)

... study. The aim of the project is to compare the outcomes for young people aged 10 to 16 with complex needs who are in treatment foster care placements, with those of matched groups in conventional foster ...

8. Fostering Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking and Refugee Children
(Research & Policy Updates/commissions)

... due to run through to the end of 2011. The core elements are: a census of all unaccompanied children looked after by the authorities a postal survey of all foster carers who have provided a placement ...

9. Statutory Guidance for Local Authorities and Schools on Information Passports, Personal Learning Plans and the Core Entitlement for All Pupils in Pupil Referral Units and other Alternative Provision
(Research & Policy Updates/consultations)

... The core entitlement covers the curriculum, the required number of hours’ education and training, and the maximum waiting times for placement in alternative provision and for the engagement of support ...

10. Statutory Guidance for Local Authorities and Schools on Information Passports, Personal Learning Plans and the Core Entitlement for All Pupils in Pupil Referral Units and other Alternative Provision
(Research & Policy Updates/consultations)

... The core entitlement covers the curriculum, the required number of hours’ education and training, and the maximum waiting times for placement in alternative provision and for the engagement of support ...