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Improving practice in respect of children who return home from care

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posted on 2016-06-09, 10:08 authored by Georgia Hyde-Dryden, Jennifer Gibb, Joanna Leah, Lisa Holmes, Emma Wallace, Clare Lushey, Doug Lawson
Reunification with family is the most common outcome for looked after children in England (Department of Education, 2014a). An increased policy focus in recent years has included reunification and re-entry to care data in the Improving Permanence for Looked after Children Data Pack (Department for Education, 2013) and the inclusion of reunification as part of the Children in Care research priority (Department for Education, 2014b). In addition, NSPCC has recently implemented the Taking Care practice framework in nine local authorities, intended to provide a more robust and evidence-based system of assessment and decision-making when children return home from care (Hyde-Dryden et al., 2015). The Taking Care practice framework has subsequently formed the basis for work, being jointly carried out by the University of Bristol and NSPCC, commissioned by the Department for Education (Farmer, 2015a; Farmer, 2015b; Wilkins and Farmer, 2015; Wilkins, 2015).

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Department for Education.

History

School

  • Social Sciences

Department

  • Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies

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Improving practice in respect of children who return home from care

Citation

HYDE-DRYDEN, G. ...et al., 2015. Improving practice in respect of children who return home from care: Research report. London: Department of Education.

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© Crown. Published by the Department of Education

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  • VoR (Version of Record)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2015

Notes

This report is based on research carried out by the National Children’s Bureau and the Centre for Child and Family Research at Loughborough University.

ISBN

9781781055496

Book series

Department of Education Research Report;DFE-RR498

Language

  • en