Ejournal Issues
2009 Issue 3
Issue 3
Cover article
This is issue is devoted to the Conference Care Matters: Transforming Lives - Improving Outcomes Conference, incorporating the 8th International Looking After Children Conference (7-9 July 2008, Keble College, Oxford UK)
Identifying Issues and Improving Stability
Content
Working at the 'edges of care’? European models of support for young people and families
authors: Janet Boddy
Late outcomes for siblings reared in long-term placement in Children’s Villages
authors: Annick-Camille Dumaret, M. Constantin-Kuntz, P. Donati, and M, Crost
Enhancing placement stability via a continuum of care approach: reflections from the Australian context
authors: Deirdre Cheers and Stephen Mondy
European policy and practice initiatives to improve outcomes for children in care
authors: Paul Durning
Outcomes and stability in placements with kin compared with stranger foster care
authors: Elaine Farmer
The challenge of growing up in care: a longitudinal study of outcomes
authors: Elizabeth Fernandez
Resilience in Aboriginal children and adolescents in out-of-home care: a test of an initial explanatory model
authors: Katharine M. Filbert and Robert J. Flynn
Ontario Practice Model
authors: Patricia Gamble
Adoption as an alternative to long-term fostering
authors: Turid Vogt Grinde
Sharing the care? Birth parents’ perception of foster care placements
authors: Ingrid Höjer
Tracking Footprints - improving out-of-home care services through research: Former SOS children reflect on their experiences
authors: Claudia Mödlagl
Better futures? Experience and outcomes of children and young people in residential care
authors: Andrew Kendrick
The relationship between foster parent training and outcomes of looked after children in Canada
authors: Jordanna J. Nash and Robert J. Flynn
Mapping the impact of children’s advocacy services
authors: Andrew Pithouse
Stability and wellbeing in care: what makes the difference?
authors: Ian Sinclair
Children's needs, types and costs of placements and their stability: comparisons using the Cost Calculator for Children's Services
authors: Jean Soper and Lisa Holmes
What are the training needs of foster carers who look after unaccompanied asylum-seeking young people?
authors: Hannah Stott
Better outcomes for children - is that an unquestioning goal? Some news from the Russian family placements battlefield
authors: Maria Ternovskaya
Issues in kinship care: assessment and support in Dutch kinship foster care
authors: Anneke J.G. Vinke
Developments in adoption and foster care practice in the Netherlands
authors: Anneke J.G. Vinke
Preparation and transition planning for unaccompanied asylum-seeking young people: a review of existing evidence in England
authors: Jim Wade