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Children and Young People `Looked After'? Dawn Mannay

Children and Young People `Looked After'? By Dawn Mannay

Children and Young People `Looked After'? by Dawn Mannay


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The relative educational, employment and lifecourse disadvantages of individuals who have experienced the care system remains an issue of widespread international concern. The chapters in this edited collection will be useful for readers across geographical contexts, who are concerned with improving the lives of children and young people.

Children and Young People `Looked After'? Summary

Children and Young People `Looked After'?: Education, Intervention and the Everyday Culture of Care in Wales by Dawn Mannay

Despite a proliferation of legislative action in response to differential outcomes, the relative educational, employment and lifecourse disadvantages of individuals who have experienced the care system remains a pressing issue of widespread international concern. In Wales, a significant body of work has been produced on and with care-experienced children and young people. This edited collection attempts to highlight these valuable insights in a single volume, with contributions from well-established and early career scholars working in different traditions - including education, psychology, policy studies, sociology and social work - to provide a unique opportunity for reflection across disciplinary boundaries and shed new light on common problems and opportunities stimulated by research in the field of social care. The volume introduces a range of contexts and sites - including the home, the school, alternative educational institutions, contact centres, and the natural environment - and reflexively explores changes and continuities within the political and geographical landscape that constitutes Wales. Each chapter introduces insights, reflections and recommendations about the care system and its impacts, which will be useful for readers across geographical contexts who are concerned with improving the lives of children, young people and wider family networks.

Children and Young People `Looked After'? Reviews

This edited volume draws together a significant body of research in Wales concerning care-experienced children and young people. Using innovative methodologies, and with a welcome focus on strengths as well as needs, this book is an important read for anyone who cares about improving the lives of children and young people in care. ; --June Statham, UCL Institute of Education This excellent compendium of research, theory, and interventions into the lived experience of children and young people placed in the care system in Wales addresses critical issues that are by no means confined to one country but extend globally. The range, richness, and utility of research-driven insights into the impacts and outcomes of care defines this uniquely valuable text. If you want to be part of improving the lives and life chances of children in care, then, quite simply, this book is essential reading. ; --Andrew Pithouse, Cardiff School of Social Sciences This book presents an authoritative and fascinating account of looked-after children's views and experiences and of the effectiveness of the system designed to support them. I am heartened by the values that link much of this book, which recognises children and young people's rights to an equal opportunity to fulfill their potential, however difficult their early start has been, and to act as active participants, often partners, in the research process. The empirical evidence presented here is rooted in Wales, and it will therefore be essential reading for practitioners and policy makers in Wales, but the evidence, analysis, and methodological insights will have resonance internationally. ; --Sally Holland, Children's Commissioner for Wales

About Dawn Mannay

Dawn Mannay is Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences (Psychology) at the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University. Alyson Rees is Assistant Director of the Children's Social Care Research and Development Centre (CASCADE) and Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University. Louise Roberts is a Research Associate at the Children's Social Care Research and Development Centre (CASCADE) and a Lecturer in Social Work at the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University.

Table of Contents

List of figures and tables List of contributors Acknowledgements 1. Introduction - Dawn Mannay, Alyson Rees and Louise Roberts I. Education and policy intervention 2. Charting the rise of children and young people looked after in Wales - Martin Elliott 3. Educational interventions for children and young people in care: A review of outcomes, implementation and acceptability - Gwyther Rees, Rachel Brown, Phil Smith and Rhiannon Evans 4. Exploring the educational attainment and achievement of children who are `looked after' in formal kinship care - Rebecca C. Pratchett and Paul Rees 5. Promoting the education of children in care: Reflections of children and carers who have experienced `success' - Paul Rees and Amy Munro 6. Transitions from care to higher education: A case study of a young person's journey - Gemma Allnatt II. The culture of care and the everyday lives of children and young people 7. The daily lived experiences of foster care: The centrality of food and touch in family life - Alyson Rees 8. The natural environment and its benefits for children and young people looked after - Holly Gordon 9. Factors that promote positive supervised birth family contact for children in care - Joanne Pye and Paul Rees 10. Yet another change: The experience of movement for children and young people looked after - Rebecca Girling 11. `A family of my own': When young people in and leaving state care become parents in Wales - Louise Roberts III. Participatory, qualitative and collaborative approaches 12. Positionality and reflexivity: Conducting qualitative interviews with parents who adopt children from foster care - Claire Palmer 13. Sandboxes, stickers and superheroes: Employing creative techniques to explore the aspirations and experiences of children and young people who are looked after - Dawn Mannay and Eleanor Staples 14. A view from a Pupil Referral Unit: Using participatory methods with young people in an education setting - Phil Smith 15. Enabling care-experienced young people's participation in research: CASCADE Voices - Eleanor Staples, Louise Roberts, Jennifer Lyttleton-Smith, Sophie Hallett and CASCADE Voices 16. Lights, camera, action: Translating research findings into policy and practice impacts with music, film and artwork - Dawn Mannay, Louisa Roberts, Eleanor Staples and Ministry of Life IV. Conclusion 17 Conclusion - Dawn Mannay, Alyson Rees and Louise Roberts Index

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NPB9781786833556
9781786833556
1786833557
Children and Young People `Looked After'?: Education, Intervention and the Everyday Culture of Care in Wales by Dawn Mannay
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Paperback
University of Wales Press
2019-02-15
288
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