Background Removal from family of origin to state care can be a highly challenging
childhood experience and is itself linked to an array of unfavourable outcomes in adult life …

Background The mental health and wellbeing of care-experienced children and young
people (ie foster care, kinship care, residential care) is poorer than non-care-experienced …

Background Children in care face adverse health outcomes throughout their life course
compared with their peers. In England, over the past decade, the stark rise in the number of …

Exploring the current and historical tensions between liberal capitalism and indigenous
models of family life, Ian Kelvin Hyslop argues for a new model of child protection in …

Over 80,000 children in England were being looked after in Local Authority care in 2020 and
a further 40,000 people were defined as 'care leavers'. Although a significant body of …

Background Tackling the unsustainable rise in children in care is a policy priority in England.
There is growing evidence that adverse socioeconomic circumstances are an important …

Young adults with a history of out-of-home care report poorer mental health and life
satisfaction compared to non-care-experienced peers. Social support is a known protective …

The mental health and wellbeing of children and young people who have been in care,
primarily foster care, kinship care or residential care, remains a public health priority. The …

In England, the dominant policy narrative recognises no association between spending on
children's services and quality and a limited association between quality and deprivation …

Background Children in care face adverse health outcomes, throughout the life-course,
relative to the general population. In England, over the last decade, the rate of children …