Children and Young People ‘Looked After’? (eBook)

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