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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Care leavers"”.
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The Internal Conversations and Social Networks of Care Leavers at University
Individuals who have been in care are often thought of as a homogenous group who, because of past and ongoing contextual adversities, have outcomes reflecting hardship in various do mains. Aggregated outcomes may conceal the presence of individuals within this group who develop life projects and …
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Young adults’ understandings of their transition out of the child welfare system
This dissertation examines care leavers’ first-hand experiences of negative outcomes through a theoretical lens. Regardless of multiple, intersecting identities and structural changes, youth in the Ontario child welfare system must navigate the same transition from the system to the larger …
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A psycho-social study of the experiences of young people leaving care in Romania : lessons for service development
… the experiences of young people leaving public care in Romania, a field which is in its early developmental stage in literature, research and practice. A progressive legislative framework recently enacted (since January 2005) which acknowledges the need to support care leavers’ transition from …
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Leaving and after care in Ghana : the experience of young people leaving a private and public children's home
… embarked on an initiative to reform residential care in Ghana, including the leaving and after-care processes. Although this was a laudable effort, it was based on concepts and research findings from the ‘developed’ world. There was no conscious reflection of the social, economic and political …
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Making records ready: responding to the Scottish child abuse inquiry.
… the issues identified by previous research and care leaver communities about their importance, existence and use. Framed using the Heideggerian concept of records as tools - present-at-hand and ready-at-hand - the study explores the management of identifying record sources and record types that …
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Young people leaving care: plans, challenges and discourses
… explored plans for four young people leaving care and the perspectives of twelve key adults supporting them. Using Fairclough’s model of critical discourse analysis, the rationale for this research was concern about the difference in outcomes between care leavers and young people in general. …
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An analysis of families of African origin, who feel at risk of accusations of abuse, whether investigated or not, and stakeholders’ perspectives
… disproportionate representation in the care system. It also explores why care leavers are overrepresented in the youth criminal justice system and in custody. The overrepresentation of African children in the social care system has been empirically linked to child abuse and neglect and …
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Changing relationships with the self and others: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of a Traveller and Gypsy life in public care
Background: The implementation of the Care Matters: Transforming the Lives of Children and Young People in Care Green Paper (Department for Education and Skills, (DfES) 2006) and the subsequent Care Matters: Time for Change White Paper (DfES, 2007), witnessed the consolidation of a universal …
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The difference that makes the difference: a pupil perspective about schooling designed for students with social emotional and behavioural difficulties (SEBD)
I have worked my whole career with children presenting with what is now refer to as ‘social, emotional and behavioural difficulties’ (SEBD) and I feel I have gained much expertise in this field. One of the ongoing problems of working in the field is that although much good work is done with the …