research in practice

1. placement stability
(Topic)

2. Children in Out of Home Placements: Managing effective contact with birth families Research Messages Workshop - 27 March 2012
(Events Calendar/Children in Out of Home Placements: Managing effective contact with birth families Research Messages Workshop )

This workshop is aimed at social workers, social work assistants, contact centre managers and all social care staff with a remit for managing supervised and unsupervised contact children have with their ...

3. Children in Out of Home Placements: Managing effective contact with birth families Research Messages Workshop - 17 January 2012
(Events Calendar/Children in Out of Home Placements: Managing effective contact with birth families Research Messages Workshop )

This workshop is aimed at social workers, social work assistants, contact centre managers and all social care staff with a remit for managing supervised and unsupervised contact children have with their ...

4. Children in Out of Home Placements: Managing effective contact with birth families Research Messages Workshop - 10 November 2011
(Events Calendar/Children in Out of Home Placements: Managing effective contact with birth families Research Messages Workshop )

This workshop is aimed at social workers, social work assistants, contact centre managers and all social care staff with a remit for managing supervised and unsupervised contact children have with their ...

5. ‘A Randomized Controlled Trial of Multisystemic Therapy and a Statutory Therapeutic Intervention for Young Offenders’, Stephen Butler, Geoffrey Baruch, Nicole Hickey, Peter Fonagy, Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 50, Dece
(Research & Policy Updates/articles)

Multisystemic Therapy (MST) is intensive family and home based intervention for young people with serious anti-social/offending behaviour aimed at reducing re-offending and the number of out of home placements. ...

6. Looked After Children and Offending: Reducing risk and promoting resilience
(Research & Policy Updates/consultations)

... largely a result of shared risk factors. Early entry to care followed by sensitive parenting in a stable placement with good professional support from a range of agencies, including education and health, ...

7. Fostering Aspirations: Reforming the foster care system in England and Wales
(Research & Policy Updates/consultations)

The think tank Policy Exchange has published a report calling for ‘radical reform’ of fostering services. It says some severely disadvantaged children are waiting over a year for a placement and describes ...

8. Care – A Stepping Stone to Custody? The views of children in care on the links between care, offending and custody
(Research & Policy Updates/consultations)

... young people get involved in offending. The children say very basic things would make a positive difference – feeling that at least one adult cares what happens to them, having a stable home placement ...

9. ‘A suitable case? Implementing multidimensional treatment foster care in an English local authority’
(Research & Policy Updates/articles)

... is monitored in school, and access to constructive leisure activities is supported. Rigorous research into MTFC in the US has shown a range of positive outcomes – greater placement stability, lower rates ...

10. Developing Employment Opportunities for Care Leavers
(Research & Policy Updates/articles)

... in schemes promoting employment opportunities were: preparation for employment/employability schemes work experience schemes work placements/traineeships apprenticeships mentoring Findings ...