TACT chief executive, Andy Elvin, said that education worked best for looked after children when carers were “fully involved” by the school. “The carer, be their foster carer, adopter or relative, is the expert on their child,” he said. “It is therefore crucial to the child’s succe...
It is easy to feel despondent reading reports like this, to blame a lack of funding, resources and specialism. It is easy to say that mainstream schools can’t be expected to do it all and that something has to give. And it is easy to blame someone else. Support for looked-after chli...
Supporting Looked After Children and Care Leavers In Decreasing Drugs, and alcohol (SOLID): protocol for a pilot feasibility randomised controlled trial of interventions to decrease risky substance use (drugs and alcohol) and improve mental health of looked after children and care leavers aged 12–...
Card 2: Looked After Children and Care Leavers Children and Young People’s Plan 2009-12 Card Lead: Andy Ray Card Sponsor: Linda Uren Priority Outcome: Improved outcomes for Looked After Children and Care Leavers 1) Why is this a priority? Improving the life chances of Looked After Children...
'dividing practices' whereby the subject or individual is drawn from a rather undifferentiated mass and, through the exercise of social science, becomes classified, confined and contained as a member of a particular group, i.e., the poor, the insane, the vagabond or the 'looked after child'...