Category - Emotional/Mental Health

Virtual mental health pilots for children in care need improvement if they are to be rolled out UK-wide, after evaluation found that just one centre involved in the trial plans to carry on offering the support. The Department for Education-funded...

The Independent Review of Children’s Social Care has published a summary of engagement with care experienced children and young people (aged 10-25) since June 2021. Areas covered in the summary include: wellbeing; relationships – including...

Children coming into residential care have usually experienced trauma and rejection. Whether they have been removed from biological parents or from adoptive or foster placements which have broken down, many will feel they have been abandoned. Read...

Findings are presented from the second phase of a UK longitudinal study of 33 gay father, 35 lesbian mother, and 43 heterosexual parent families when their adopted children reached early adolescence. Participants predominantly lived in...

The Fostering Network has published a report on the findings of the Muslim Fostering Project which explored the experiences of Muslim children in foster care and that of Muslim foster carers in the UK. Recommendations include: Ofsted to include...

Many children who have been sexually abused have also experienced other abuse such as domestic violence and neglect. The experience of stigma, betrayal and poor attachment can lead to challenging behaviour, which affects placement stability. Key...

The paper explores the taboo of love for children in care. A taboo is a social custom setting a thing apart, prohibiting association with a person, place, or thing (Oxford English Dictionary 2012). Love can become a taboo for children in care...