[PDF] Top 20 Supporting looked after children in education

... of looked after children has improved in recent years, as has their attainment, though the gap in attainment between looked after children and all children has ... See full document

... of children in residential care (Petrie, Boddy, Cameron, Wigfall & Simon, 2006) found that only ...Danish children under 16 in residential care were not attending school; this compared with ...24 ... See full document

... the looked after children would not achieve similar academic qualifications to their peers but the school had a good reputation for the education of looked after children ... See full document

... a looked after children education co-ordinator to work with schools and social work ...for looked after children and care ...oversee looked after children’s ... See full document

... Furthermore, one DT suggested that EPs would be well placed to train and support school staff in relation to the best way to approach complex multi-agency meetings: considering how to approach and prepare for such ... See full document

... ‘looked after’ in Scotland, which includes children looked after ‘at home’, is considerably broader than that used in legislation in England and Wales and Northern ...were looked ... See full document

... the education of looked after children (HMIe and SWSI, ...the education of looked after ...few looked after children stay on at ...The Looked ... See full document

... The National Standards for Foster Care and the National Standards for Children’s Residential Centres (2001) detail the roles and responsibilities of educational and social care professionals in relation to the provision ... See full document

... for looked after children, young people and care ...with looked after children and young people, some of the advice will be useful to others in the corporate parent family ... See full document

... teaching workforce require a holistic understanding of the causes and impact of poverty on a child’s experience of education and their wider world, and of the interventions that schools can use to reduce the ... See full document

... of children in care, or previously in ...were children and young people ranging in age from ten to ...higher education courses, were also interviewed by the researchers, with the findings being ... See full document

... in education, employment or training) group (Scottish Executive, ...months after the school leaving date, shows the significantly higher risk looked after children have of not being in ... See full document

... A final reflection must be directed to the process of data analysis. Grounded theory was used as it was deemed to be a good-fit to the aims and purpose of the research; both researchers were familiar with it, and it ... See full document

... Glasgow Project Report Supporting Looked After Children and Young People at School: A Scottish Case Study Graham Connelly, Lindsay Siebelt & Judith Furnivall March 2008.[r] ... See full document

... of looked after children were identified, and interviews were carried out with Designated Managers for looked after children in these primary schools, and in an early years ... See full document

... to looked after young people and care leavers the report highlights the importance of collaborating with local authorities to improve the educational attainment of this ... See full document

... substance misuse among vulnerable young people ’ , in the UK, highlighted LAC as a group vulnerable to substance use [17]. About 7% of the approximately 21,000 young people accessing specialist drug and alcohol services ... See full document

... of looked after children with uncertain immigration status; however, it is essential that the potential implications of their immigration status are explored in terms of access to college or ... See full document

... for children in England has undergone a significant transformation moving almost exclusively towards foster care as the preferred mode of ...for Education for the year ending 31 March 2018, reported that ... See full document

... of looked after children are likely to be diverse. Some looked after children still live at home with their birth families, whilst others might need to live outwith the family ... See full document