Care pathways and outcomes: The teenage years
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Ulster
Department Name: Sch of Psychology
Abstract
Across the UK, when children enter care, they live in a range of different placements, such as foster care, kinship care (with relatives or friends), adoption or with their birth parents. However, adoptive placements are much less likely than foster or kinship placements to break down in the mid to late teenage years (Rock et al., 2013).
The proposed study is a fourth wave of a longitudinal study that has been following a population of children who entered care at a young age. This group represents all 374 children who were under five years old and in care in Northern Ireland on the 31st March 2000. The study has been tracking where these children end up living, and how they are getting on. At this stage, they are in their mid to late teenage years, when the risk of placement breakdown increases. The proposed study aims to compare how these young people are progressing in their different placement types. It also seeks to explore the levels of stability and placement breakdown that has occurred, and to identify the reasons for this. These factors will then be discussed in reports and workshops for social care and legal practitioners in Northern Ireland and Great Britain, where the systems are very similar, so as to directly impact upon policy and practice.
In order to fulfil these objectives, firstly all the children's placements will be identified on the 31st March 2015, when the young people will be between 15 and 19 years old. This will be the fifth time (2000, 2002, 2004, 2007, 2015) that the placement profile for the full population will have been specified. No other study in the world has been able to track a population of young children in care in this way.
Secondly, an attempt will be made to recruit the total population of young people for data collection via two home visits. However, on the basis of previous research in this area, we anticipate that approximately 213 young people and their parents/carers will take part in direct interviews. In the first visit, the young person will complete an electronic questionnaire on a computer tablet, whilst at the same time their parents/carers will complete a manual questionnaire. This will involve the collection of purely quantitative data. In the second visit, the young person will engage in a verbal interview with researchers, facilitated by materials presented on the computer tablet, and at the same time the parents/carers will take part in a semi-structured interview. These interviews will allow for a detailed comparisons to be made between groups of young people in different types of placements (i.e. foster care, kinship care, adoption, living at home), and also between those young people who have remained within long-term stable placements and those who have experienced instability and placement breakdown.
This is a unique study and is very well placed to further our understanding of the benefits, costs, and wider impact of a range of placements provided to children who enter care at a young age, especially during the often challenging mid to late teenage years.
The proposed study is a fourth wave of a longitudinal study that has been following a population of children who entered care at a young age. This group represents all 374 children who were under five years old and in care in Northern Ireland on the 31st March 2000. The study has been tracking where these children end up living, and how they are getting on. At this stage, they are in their mid to late teenage years, when the risk of placement breakdown increases. The proposed study aims to compare how these young people are progressing in their different placement types. It also seeks to explore the levels of stability and placement breakdown that has occurred, and to identify the reasons for this. These factors will then be discussed in reports and workshops for social care and legal practitioners in Northern Ireland and Great Britain, where the systems are very similar, so as to directly impact upon policy and practice.
In order to fulfil these objectives, firstly all the children's placements will be identified on the 31st March 2015, when the young people will be between 15 and 19 years old. This will be the fifth time (2000, 2002, 2004, 2007, 2015) that the placement profile for the full population will have been specified. No other study in the world has been able to track a population of young children in care in this way.
Secondly, an attempt will be made to recruit the total population of young people for data collection via two home visits. However, on the basis of previous research in this area, we anticipate that approximately 213 young people and their parents/carers will take part in direct interviews. In the first visit, the young person will complete an electronic questionnaire on a computer tablet, whilst at the same time their parents/carers will complete a manual questionnaire. This will involve the collection of purely quantitative data. In the second visit, the young person will engage in a verbal interview with researchers, facilitated by materials presented on the computer tablet, and at the same time the parents/carers will take part in a semi-structured interview. These interviews will allow for a detailed comparisons to be made between groups of young people in different types of placements (i.e. foster care, kinship care, adoption, living at home), and also between those young people who have remained within long-term stable placements and those who have experienced instability and placement breakdown.
This is a unique study and is very well placed to further our understanding of the benefits, costs, and wider impact of a range of placements provided to children who enter care at a young age, especially during the often challenging mid to late teenage years.
Planned Impact
There will be a number of beneficiaries of this research.
Academics: The findings that emerge from this study will make a significant contribution to our understanding of the pathways that young children follow through the care system, and what factors are important for understanding short, medium and longer-term outcomes. This knowledge will benefit the academic community working in this area nationally and internationally, particularly as they uniquely derive from a longitudinal population study of young children in care. The methods developed for interviewing mid to late teenagers, an should be generalisable to other jurisdictions.
Practitioners and policy makers: These findings will be highly beneficial to practitioners working with these young people on the ground, and to policy makers attempting to establish systems that enhance the health and wellbeing of these young people in their teenage years. A key challenge is that the normal tensions that can emerge during the teenage years, can become magnified to the extent that placements break down, which can be catastrophic for everyone involved. This study will provide a unique insight into the lives of a population of young people across the different placement types, and will identify the factors that appear to be related to placement stability in the face of the pressures of the teenage years. This will assist practitioners and policy makers to intervene and prevent placement breakdowns on the basis of the presence or absence of particular risk and protective factors, and also to develop training programmes for carers/parents that are centred on what appears to work best for foster and adoptive families in the teenage years.
Young people in care and adopted from care: The lessons learned from the findings of this study, and when applied to practice, will benefit young people in care and adopted from care by reducing the likelihood that their placements will break down, which can have a devastating impact upon their long-term health and quality of life.
Carers, birth and adoptive parents: The findings of the study will be summarised in the form of a report for parents/carers. This will focus on what appears to work best for teenagers in care to ensure that their placements do not break down as a result of the normal tensions of the teenage years, and that they can remain health and have a good quality of life.
General public: Given the similar legislative frameworks that underlie policy and practice in this area in Northern Ireland and Great Britain, the findings of this study will be generalisable across the UK. When placements do break down in the teenage years, it can be very difficult to find alternative long-term family placements, and more commonly a residential care placement is identified. Recent statistics provided by the Department of Health (2011) in England and Wales indicated that residential care provision costs approximately £140,000 per annum per child. This suggests that if the findings that emerge from this study help prevent only six long-term placements from breaking down, it will have been value for money. However, it is anticipated that the identification of factors that can support or undermine long-term placements will benefit a much larger proportion of long-term placements in Northern Ireland, and across the UK. Placement breakdown also involves huge emotional costs for the whole family: the children, siblings, long-term carers, birth and adoptive parents; and the wider family network. These problems can manifest themselves in poor performance or absence from school; sick leave by parents/carers due to stress/anxiety; young people engaging in anti-social behaviour; and young people and parent/carer deterioration in health. These all have financial implications that place pressure on the health system. These costs can be avoided by ensuring that long-term placements remain stable throughout the mid to late teenage years.
Academics: The findings that emerge from this study will make a significant contribution to our understanding of the pathways that young children follow through the care system, and what factors are important for understanding short, medium and longer-term outcomes. This knowledge will benefit the academic community working in this area nationally and internationally, particularly as they uniquely derive from a longitudinal population study of young children in care. The methods developed for interviewing mid to late teenagers, an should be generalisable to other jurisdictions.
Practitioners and policy makers: These findings will be highly beneficial to practitioners working with these young people on the ground, and to policy makers attempting to establish systems that enhance the health and wellbeing of these young people in their teenage years. A key challenge is that the normal tensions that can emerge during the teenage years, can become magnified to the extent that placements break down, which can be catastrophic for everyone involved. This study will provide a unique insight into the lives of a population of young people across the different placement types, and will identify the factors that appear to be related to placement stability in the face of the pressures of the teenage years. This will assist practitioners and policy makers to intervene and prevent placement breakdowns on the basis of the presence or absence of particular risk and protective factors, and also to develop training programmes for carers/parents that are centred on what appears to work best for foster and adoptive families in the teenage years.
Young people in care and adopted from care: The lessons learned from the findings of this study, and when applied to practice, will benefit young people in care and adopted from care by reducing the likelihood that their placements will break down, which can have a devastating impact upon their long-term health and quality of life.
Carers, birth and adoptive parents: The findings of the study will be summarised in the form of a report for parents/carers. This will focus on what appears to work best for teenagers in care to ensure that their placements do not break down as a result of the normal tensions of the teenage years, and that they can remain health and have a good quality of life.
General public: Given the similar legislative frameworks that underlie policy and practice in this area in Northern Ireland and Great Britain, the findings of this study will be generalisable across the UK. When placements do break down in the teenage years, it can be very difficult to find alternative long-term family placements, and more commonly a residential care placement is identified. Recent statistics provided by the Department of Health (2011) in England and Wales indicated that residential care provision costs approximately £140,000 per annum per child. This suggests that if the findings that emerge from this study help prevent only six long-term placements from breaking down, it will have been value for money. However, it is anticipated that the identification of factors that can support or undermine long-term placements will benefit a much larger proportion of long-term placements in Northern Ireland, and across the UK. Placement breakdown also involves huge emotional costs for the whole family: the children, siblings, long-term carers, birth and adoptive parents; and the wider family network. These problems can manifest themselves in poor performance or absence from school; sick leave by parents/carers due to stress/anxiety; young people engaging in anti-social behaviour; and young people and parent/carer deterioration in health. These all have financial implications that place pressure on the health system. These costs can be avoided by ensuring that long-term placements remain stable throughout the mid to late teenage years.
Organisations
- University of Ulster (Lead Research Organisation)
- University of Milan (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER (Collaboration)
- Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (Collaboration)
- University of Chicago (Collaboration)
- University of Sherbrooke (Collaboration)
- University of Utah (Collaboration)
- Kingston University London (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG (Collaboration)
- Trinity College Dublin (Collaboration)
Publications
D McSherry
(2022)
An introduction to the adoption and trauma special issue
in Child Abuse & Neglect
Dominic McSherry
(2022)
Exploring the relationship between adoption and psychological trauma for children who are adopted from care: A longitudinal case study perspective (in press)
in Journal of Child Abuse and Neglect
Fargas-Malet M
(2020)
The Emotional Nature of Birth Family Relationships for Care-experienced and Adopted Young People: A Longitudinal Perspective
in Journal of Family Issues
Mcsherry D
(2022)
How can we ensure that children in our care system get the best possible start to life?
in Futurum Careers
McSherry D
(2019)
The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ): A Proxy Measure of Parenting Stress
in The British Journal of Social Work
McSherry D
(2021)
A New Vision for the Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma.
in Journal of child & adolescent trauma
Description | We found that within Northern Ireland there was a very high of placement stability throughout childhood achieved for children who entered care under the age of five. Nine out of ten children who were adopted from care remained in their adoptive placement at least until they were 18 years old, and that seven out of 10 children who had been placed in long-term non-relative foster care, relative (kinship) foster care, and on Residence Order also remained with their carers through to their late teens. There was a higher level of placement breakdown for children who were not adopted. However, we found that even when these placements broke down, usually during the teenage years, the children and carers very often maintained their relationship, so there was relational stability even when placements had ended. We also found that irrespective of placement type, children's feelings about their birth family were complex. Research focused on relationships and contact with birth family for children and young people who were separated from them as infants has rarely acknowledged the emotional and dynamic nature of such interactions, with curiosity being dominant in adoption research. However, we found that a range of other feelings and combination of feelings emerged in the youths' narratives, including contentment and mixed feelings such as anger, affection, loss, guilt, or worry. Furthermore, type of placement, that is, whether the young people had been adopted, lived with kinship foster carers or non-relative foster parents, did not determine their emotional reactions to their birth family. The young people's perspectives and emotions also often changed over time. |
Exploitation Route | The outcomes can be taken forward by policy makers and practitioners working in the general area of substitute care at a local, national and international level, such as adoption and foster care. Increased efforts should be made to ensure that children remain in stable placements and enter these at as early an age as possible to help ensure recovery from possible early psychological trauma and the development of insecure attachments. Children in long-term care should also be provided with mechanisms to help them process their early life experiences and new placements in an age appropriate manner. |
Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy Education Healthcare |
URL | https://www.ulster.ac.uk/research/topic/psychology/projects/the-care-pathways-and-outcomes-study |
Description | The findings have been considered during a number of public engagement events: - At a public seminar organised by the Lord Mayor of Belfast exploring the impact of poverty on child development. - At a roundtable discussion organised by the UK Infant Mental Health Alliance, Co-ordinated by Barnardos, exploring the impact of parental stress on the development of secure attachments. - At a workshop on stress and child wellbeing organised by the Westminster Health Forum. - During a UK-wide discussion of the challenges of including seldom heard families organised by the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory. Findings from the research have also been cited in a number of non-academic publications: - Irish Foster Care Association report on stability (2019): chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://ifca.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Foster-7-Full-PDF.pdf. - Report by 'Family Rights Group' - Two Decades of Research on Kinship Care: An Overview (2020): https://frg.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Overview-research-kinship-care.pdf. - 'The Psychologist' (2020), the magazine for the British Psychological Society. Highlighting the Special Issue on 'Adoption and Trauma' edited by the study Principal Investigator: https://www.bps.org.uk/psychologist/adoption-and-trauma - Northern Ireland Department of Health Looked After Children Strategy - A Life Deserved: Caring For Children & Young People In Northern Ireland (2021): https://www.educationni.gov.uk/sites/default/files/publications/education/A%20Life%20Deserved%20%20%20Caring%20%20for%20Children%20%26%20Young%20People%20in%20Northern%20Ireland%20Strategy.PDF. - Research findings are cited on the Better Care Network website: https://bettercarenetwork.org/library/the-continuum-of-care/residential-care?page=5 |
First Year Of Impact | 2019 |
Sector | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Education,Healthcare |
Impact Types | Societal Policy & public services |
Description | Citation in UK third sector report |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Impact | Findings from Care Pathways and Outcomes study were cited in British Association of Social Work (BASW) adoption enquiry (2017). |
URL | https://www.basw.co.uk/adoption-enquiry/. |
Description | Citation in governmental report |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
Impact | Findings from the Care Pathways and Outcomes study were cited in a recent UK governmental report examining outcomes for abused and neglected children. |
URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/602148/Childhood_neglect_a... |
Description | Citation in governmental report |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
Impact | Findings from the Care Pathways and Outcomes study were cited in the Northern Ireland Family Justice Review (2017), highlighting the importance of providing early stable placements for young children in the care system. |
URL | http://www.jsbni.com/civilandfamilyjusticereview/Documents/Family%20Justice%20Report%20September%202... |
Description | Citation in governmental report |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
URL | https://www.health-ni.gov.uk/sites/default/files/publications/health/doh-lac-strategy.pdf |
Description | Co-editing special issue of Child Abuse and Neglect journal with international colleagues |
Organisation | Rutgers University |
Country | United States |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | In February 2019 I was invited by the international Child Abuse and Neglect journal to guest edit a special issue of the journal on the subject of 'Adoption and Trauma'. I invited two leading international scholars in the field of adoption research to join me as co-editors, professors Gina Samuels (University of Chicago) and David Brodzinsky (Rutgers University), and they both agreed. |
Collaborator Contribution | My two esteemed colleagues are assisting me in the preparation of the call brief and will assist me in the review of submissions and the preparation of the editorial. |
Impact | This collaboration has just commenced. |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | Co-editing special issue of Child Abuse and Neglect journal with international colleagues |
Organisation | University of Chicago |
Country | United States |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | In February 2019 I was invited by the international Child Abuse and Neglect journal to guest edit a special issue of the journal on the subject of 'Adoption and Trauma'. I invited two leading international scholars in the field of adoption research to join me as co-editors, professors Gina Samuels (University of Chicago) and David Brodzinsky (Rutgers University), and they both agreed. |
Collaborator Contribution | My two esteemed colleagues are assisting me in the preparation of the call brief and will assist me in the review of submissions and the preparation of the editorial. |
Impact | This collaboration has just commenced. |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | Editor in Chief of Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma |
Organisation | Kingston University London |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | I have taken over as Editor in Chief of the Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma from 1st September 2020. |
Collaborator Contribution | I have appointed 16 leading international scholars in the field of child and adolescent trauma as Associate Editors to support my editorial leadership on the journal. |
Impact | I have had an editorial published in the March Issue of the Journal (2021). This is a multidisciplinary partnership involving psychology, social work, nursing, biomedical sciences, and education. |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | Editor in Chief of Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma |
Organisation | Rutgers University |
Country | United States |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | I have taken over as Editor in Chief of the Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma from 1st September 2020. |
Collaborator Contribution | I have appointed 16 leading international scholars in the field of child and adolescent trauma as Associate Editors to support my editorial leadership on the journal. |
Impact | I have had an editorial published in the March Issue of the Journal (2021). This is a multidisciplinary partnership involving psychology, social work, nursing, biomedical sciences, and education. |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | Editor in Chief of Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma |
Organisation | Trinity College Dublin |
Department | School of Social Work and Social policy |
Country | Ireland |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | I have taken over as Editor in Chief of the Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma from 1st September 2020. |
Collaborator Contribution | I have appointed 16 leading international scholars in the field of child and adolescent trauma as Associate Editors to support my editorial leadership on the journal. |
Impact | I have had an editorial published in the March Issue of the Journal (2021). This is a multidisciplinary partnership involving psychology, social work, nursing, biomedical sciences, and education. |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | Editor in Chief of Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma |
Organisation | University of Chicago |
Country | United States |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | I have taken over as Editor in Chief of the Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma from 1st September 2020. |
Collaborator Contribution | I have appointed 16 leading international scholars in the field of child and adolescent trauma as Associate Editors to support my editorial leadership on the journal. |
Impact | I have had an editorial published in the March Issue of the Journal (2021). This is a multidisciplinary partnership involving psychology, social work, nursing, biomedical sciences, and education. |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | Editor in Chief of Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma |
Organisation | University of Johannesburg |
Country | South Africa |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | I have taken over as Editor in Chief of the Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma from 1st September 2020. |
Collaborator Contribution | I have appointed 16 leading international scholars in the field of child and adolescent trauma as Associate Editors to support my editorial leadership on the journal. |
Impact | I have had an editorial published in the March Issue of the Journal (2021). This is a multidisciplinary partnership involving psychology, social work, nursing, biomedical sciences, and education. |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | Editor in Chief of Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma |
Organisation | University of Leicester |
Department | School of Psychology Leicester |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | I have taken over as Editor in Chief of the Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma from 1st September 2020. |
Collaborator Contribution | I have appointed 16 leading international scholars in the field of child and adolescent trauma as Associate Editors to support my editorial leadership on the journal. |
Impact | I have had an editorial published in the March Issue of the Journal (2021). This is a multidisciplinary partnership involving psychology, social work, nursing, biomedical sciences, and education. |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | Editor in Chief of Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma |
Organisation | University of Milan |
Country | Italy |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | I have taken over as Editor in Chief of the Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma from 1st September 2020. |
Collaborator Contribution | I have appointed 16 leading international scholars in the field of child and adolescent trauma as Associate Editors to support my editorial leadership on the journal. |
Impact | I have had an editorial published in the March Issue of the Journal (2021). This is a multidisciplinary partnership involving psychology, social work, nursing, biomedical sciences, and education. |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | Editor in Chief of Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma |
Organisation | University of Sherbrooke |
Country | Canada |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | I have taken over as Editor in Chief of the Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma from 1st September 2020. |
Collaborator Contribution | I have appointed 16 leading international scholars in the field of child and adolescent trauma as Associate Editors to support my editorial leadership on the journal. |
Impact | I have had an editorial published in the March Issue of the Journal (2021). This is a multidisciplinary partnership involving psychology, social work, nursing, biomedical sciences, and education. |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | Editor in Chief of Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma |
Organisation | University of Utah |
Country | United States |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | I have taken over as Editor in Chief of the Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma from 1st September 2020. |
Collaborator Contribution | I have appointed 16 leading international scholars in the field of child and adolescent trauma as Associate Editors to support my editorial leadership on the journal. |
Impact | I have had an editorial published in the March Issue of the Journal (2021). This is a multidisciplinary partnership involving psychology, social work, nursing, biomedical sciences, and education. |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | Conference presentation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation at XV Conference of the European Scientific Association on Residential and Family Care for Children and Adolescents (EUSARF) - Porto, Portugal Duration: 02 Oct 2018 ? 05 Oct 2018. Multi-professional and inter-disciplinary audience of approximately 100. Focused on birth family contact for adopted and care experienced children. Based on initial findings from ESRC-funded Care Pathways and Outcomes: The Teenage Years. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/en/publications/mixed-feelings-curiosity-or-indifference-searching-and-bir... |
Description | Conference presentation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Paper presented at XV Conference of the European Scientific Association on Residential and Family Care for Children and Adolescents (EUSARF) - Porto, Portugal Duration: 02 Oct 2018 ? 05 Oct 2018. Multi-professional and inter-disciplinary audience. Based on initial findings from ESRC-funded Care Pathways and Outcomes: The Teenage Years. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/en/publications/moving-out-does-not-always-mean-moving-on-placement-stabil... |
Description | Conference presentation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | Paper presented at Sixth International Conference on Adoption Research - Centre Mont-Royal, Montreal, Canada. Duration: 08 Jul 2018 ? 12 Jul 2018. Multi-professional audience. Based on initial findings from ESRC-funded study - Care Pathways and Outcomes: The Teenage Years. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/en/publications/mixed-feelings-curiosity-or-indifference-birth-family-cont... |
Description | Consultation Strategy |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | We held 15 consultation events with key stakeholder groups across Northern Ireland, involving over 100 people, to help refine the funded research proposal prior to ethical and research governance review. This helped ensure that key issues were not being missed in the research, and strengthened stakeholder bye-in to the study, which was very important, as the recruitment process would require intensive support from stakeholder organisations. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Eurpoean Conference for Social Work Research, Leuven, Belgium |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | A presentation was given of the findings from the study centred on the issue of support for children in care and how this can help prevent placement breakdown. Following this, we were approached by colleagues to contribute to a large-scale funding bid. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/en/publications/the-importance-of-supports-for-childrens-placement-and-for... |
Description | Eurpoean Conference for Social Work Research, Leuven, Belgium (paper 2) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | This conference presentation focused on the regional variation in placement practices within Northern Ireland and across the UK, and the implications of these variations for a consideration of children's rights and equality of treatment. There was positive engagement with conference attendees and new relationships established to support further collaborative work. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/en/publications/regional-variations-in-care-planning-in-northern-ireland-a... |
Description | Joint seminar with NSPCC |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | Initial findings were presented from the ESRC-funded Care Pathways and Outcomes: The Teenage Years at a seminar on the impact of early childhood trauma co-hosted by Ulster University and the NSPCC. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Poster presentation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | Poster presented at Sixth International Conference on Adoption Research - Centre Mont-Royal, Montreal, Canada. Duration: 08 Jul 2018 ? 12 Jul 2018. Based on initial findings from ESRC-funded Care Pathways and Outcomes: The Teenage Years. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/en/publications/physical-and-relational-permanence-in-adoption-and-other-l... |
Description | Poster presentation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Poster presented at XV Conference of the European Scientific Association on Residential and Family Care for Children and Adolescents (EUSARF) - Porto, Portugal Duration: 02 Oct 2018 ? 05 Oct 2018. Inter-professional and multi-disciplinary audience. Based on preliminary findings from the ESRC-funded Care Pathways and Outcomes: The Teenage Years. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/en/publications/does-placement-type-matter-comparing-the-well-being-of-car... |