Education of looked after children and young people
This list is in two sections: section 1 lists open source items freely accessible for all. Section 2 lists items which are available to Strathclyde University staff and students, but which may require to be obtained by purchase (or inter-library loan) by non-members of the University.
Section 1 - Open Source
Archer, T. & Fletcher-Campbell, F. (2003). Achievement at key stage 4 of young people in public care. Nottingham: NFER.
Cabinet Office. (2009). Releasing young potential : supporting care leavers into education, employment and training.
Caddell, D. (1996). Roles, responsibilities and relationships: Engendering parental involvement: Paper presented at the SERA conference Dundee September 1996.
Connelly, G. (2007). Can Scotland achieve more for looked after children? Adoption & Fostering , 31(1), 81-91.
Department for Children Schools and Families. (2009). Improving the attainment of looked after people in primary schools : guidance for schools. Nottingham : DCSF.
Department for Children Schools and Families. (2009). Improving the attainment of looked after people in secondary schools : guidance for schools. Nottingham : DCSF.
Hughes, M. & others. (2005). Exchanging knowledge between home and school to enhance childrens learning.
South Ayrshire Adoption and Fostering Team. (2007). Meeting my needs.
Yippee Project website. A project to increase knowledge of the post-compulsory education of young people who have been in public care as children.
Section 2 - Subscription Based
Ackerman, B.P., Brown, E.D. & Izard, C.E. (2004). The relations between persistant poverty and contextual risk and children's behavior in elementary school. Developmental Psychology, 40, 367-377.
Adoption & Fostering. (2007). 31(1), 3-117.
Whole issue on the education of young people in care.
Aldgate, J. (1992). Educational attainment and stability in long-term foster care. Children and Society, 6(2), 91-103.
Berridge, D. (2007). Theory and explanation in child welfare: education and looked-after children. Child & family social work, 12(1), 1-10.
Bourne, J. (2005). Education for children and young people in public care. In A. Wheal (Ed). The RHP companion to foster care (pp. 68-77). Lyme Regis: Russell House.
Campbell, K. (1998). The education of children who are looked after. British Journal of Social Work, 34(8), 1133-1160.
Comfort, R. L. (2007). For the love of learning: Promoting educational achievement for looked after and adopted children. Adoption and Fostering, 31(1), 28-34.
Connelly, G. & Chakrabarti, M. (2007). Improving the educational experience of children and young people in public care: A Scottish perspective. International Journal of Exclusive Education, 12(4), 347-361.
Coulling, N. (2000). Definitions of successful education for the 'looked after' child: A multi-agency perspective. Support for Learning, 15(1), 30-35.
Davey, D. & Pithouse, A. (2008). Schooling and looked after children: Exploring contexts and outcomes in Standard Attainment Tests (SATS). Adoption & Fostering, 32(3), 60-72
Department for Children Schools and Families. (2009). Educational attainment of children in care (Looked after Children).
Dubowitz, H., & Sawyer, R.J. (1994). School behaviour of children in kinship care. Child Abuse & Neglect, 18(11), 899-911.
Dubowitz, H., & Sawyer, R.J. (1994). School performance of children in kinship care. Child Abuse & Neglect, 18(7), 587-597.
Elliott, A. (2002). The educational expectation of looked after children. Adoption & Fostering, 26(3), 58-68.
Ferguson, H. (2007). Abused and looked after children as `Mortal Dirt': Child abuse and institutional care in historical perspective. Journal of Social Policy. 36(1), 123-140.
Fletcher-Campbell, F. (1998). Progress or procrastination? The education of young people who are looked after. Children and Society, 12(1), 3-11.
Fletcher-Campbell, F., & Archer, T. (2003). Achievement at key stage 4 of young people in public care.
Fletcher-Campbell, F., Archer, T., & Tomlinson, K. (2003). The Role of the school in supporting the education of children in public care.
Foley, T. & Lindsay, M. (1999). Getting them back to school - touchstones of good practice in the residential care of young people. Children and Society, 13(3), 192-202.
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Francis, J. (2000). Investing in children's futures: Enhancing the educational arrangements of 'looked after' children and young people. Child & Family Social Work, 5(1), 23-33.
Gallagher, B., Brannan, C., Jones, R., & Westwood, S. (2004). Good practice in the education of children in residential care. British Journal of Social Work, 34(8), 1133-1160.
Gilligan, R. (1998). The place of schools and teachers in child welfare. Child and Family Social Work, 3(1), 13-25. Navigate to selected issue.
Goddard, J. (2000). The education of looked after children. Child & Family Social Work, 5(1), 79-86.
Greig, A. and others. (2008). Relationships and learning: a review and investigation of narrative cohesion in looked-after children in primary school. Educational Psychology in Practice, 24(1), 13-27.
Hare, A.D, and Bullock, R. (2006). Dispelling misconceptions about looked after children. Adoption & Fostering, 30(4), 26-35.
Harker, R. (2004). More than the sum of its parts? Inter-professional working in the education of looked after children. Children & Society, 18(3), 179-193.
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Harker, R.M., Dobel-Ober, D., Akhurst,S., Berridge, D., & Sinclair, R. (2004). Who takes care of education 18 months on? A follow-up study of looked after children's perceptions of support for educational progress. Child & Family Social Work, 9(3), 273-284
Harker, R.M., Dobel-Ober, D., Akhurst,S., Berridge, D., & Sinclair, R. (2003). Who takes care of education? Looked after children's perceptions of support for educational progress. Child & Family Social Work, 8(2), 89-100.
Hayden, C. (2005). More than a piece of paper?: Personal education plans and 'looked after' children in England. Child and Family Social Work, 10(4), 343-352.
Heath, A., & Colton, M. (1994) Attainment and behaviour of children in care and at home. Oxford Review of Education, 20(3), 317-327.
Hibbert, H. (2001). Promoting the education of children and young people in public care. Adoption & Fostering, 25(2), 26-32.
Hill, N. E., Castellino, D.R., Lansford, J.E. & others. (2004). Parent academic involvement as related to school behaviour, achievement, and aspirations: Demographic variations across adolescence. Child Development, 75, 1491-1509.
Jacklin, A. (2006). When lack of data is data: Do we really know who our looked-after children are? European Journal of Special Needs Education, 21(1), 1-20.
Jackson, S. (1994). Educating children in residential and fostering care. Oxford Review of Education, 20(3), 267-279.
Jackson, S. (1998). Educational success for looked-after children: The social worker's responsibility. Source Practice, 10(4), p47-56.
Jackson, S. & Martin, P. (1998). Surviving the care system: Education and resilience. Journal of Adolescence, 21(5), 569-583
Kavanagh, S. (1989, October, 3823). Split decisions: foster care. The Times Educational Supplement, p. 26.
Klein, R. (1997, 31 January). Behind the figures lies a story of deprivation. Times Educational Supplement. p.12.
Lambert, L., Head, J., & Essen, J. (1976). School attainment of children who have been in care. Child: Care, Health and Development, 2 (Nov-Dec), 339-351.
Lines, S. (1992). Educational disadvantage in the primary school: children in temporary accommodation. Support for Learning, 7(1), 8-13.
Maclean, K. & Gunion, M. (2003). Learning with care: The education of children looked after away from home by local authorities in Scotland. Adoption & Fostering, 27(2), 20-31.
Mallon, J. (2005). Academic underachievement and exclusion of people who have been looked after in local authority care. Research in Post-Compulsory Education , 10(1), 83-103.
Mallon, J. (2007). Returning to education after care: Protective factors in the development of resilience. Adoption & Fostering, 31(1), 106-116.
Martin, P.Y. & Jackson, S. (2002). Educational success for children in public care: Advice from a group of high achievers. Child & Family Social Work. 7(2), 121-130.
Menmuir, R. (1994). Involving residential social workers and foster carers in reading with young people in their care: the PRAISE reading project. Oxford Review of Education, 20(3), 329-338.
O'Sullivan, A. & Westerman, R. (2007). Closing the gap: Investigating the barriers to educational achievement for looked after children. Adoption & Fostering, 31(1), 13-20.
Pecora, P.J. & others (2006). Assessing the educational achievements of adults who were formerly placed in family foster care. Child & Family Social Work, 11(3), 220-231.
Phillips, R. (2007). The need for information on how the attachment difficulties of adopted and looked after children affect their schooling. Adoption & Fostering, 31(3), 28-38.
Rao, V. & Simkiss, D. (2007). Bullying in schools: A survey of the experience of looked after children. Adoption & Fostering, 31(3), 49-57.
Renold, E. (2008). 'Becoming participant': problematizing 'informed consent' in participatory research with young people in care. Qualitative Social Work, 7(4), 427-447.
Ritchie, C., Flouri, E. & Buchanan, A. (2005). Aspirations and expectations.
Scherr, T. G. (2007). Educational experiences of children in foster care: Meta-analyses of special education, retention and discipline rates. School Psychology International, 28(4), 419-436.
Stanley, N. (2007). Young people's and carers' perspectives on the mental health needs of looked-after adolescents. Child & Family Social Work, 12(3), 258-267.
Stead, J., Lloyd, G., & Kendrick, A. (2004). Participation or practice innovation: tensions in inter-agency working to address disciplinary exclusion from school. Children & Society, 18(1), 42-52.
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Tett, L. (2001). Parents and schools: Partnerships in early primary education. Scottish Educational Review, 33(1), 48-58.
Thomson, A.I. (2007). Looked after children: non local authority placements and meeting educational needs. Educational Psychology in Practice, 23(3), 273-282.
Times Educational Supplement.
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Times Educational Supplement.
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Walker, T.G. (1994). Educating children in public care: A strategic approach. Oxford Review of Education, 20(3), 339-347.
Walker-Gleaves, A. & Walker, C. (2008). Imagining a different life in school: Educating student teachers about "looked after" children and young people. Teachers and Teaching : Theory and Practice, 14(5-6), 465-479.
Winter, K. (2006). Widening our knowledge concerning young looked after children: the case for research using sociological models of childhood. Child and Family Social Work, 11(1), 55-64.
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