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Understand the context of supporting children and young people through foster care
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This article from Norfolk County Council’s section on ‘Caring for a looked-after child’ covers the child’s ‘Identity’. You may wish to read the other sections, or find the equivalent document from your own local authority.
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Reading Materials
‘Fostering legislation in England’ from The Fostering Network website.
‘Looked-after children and young people’ from the Annual Report of the Chief Medical Officer 2012
'Fostering Services: National Minimum Standards’, produced by the Department for Education
‘Contact in foster care’ from The Fostering Network website.
‘Promoting the health and wellbeing of looked-after children’ from the Department for Education and Department of Health and Social Care
‘The fostering system in England: Evidence review’ by Mary Baginsky, Sarah Gorin and Claire Sands, King’s College London and Quest Research and Evaluation Ltd
‘Looked after children’ from the NSPCC
‘Looked-after children and young people’ from the national Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
‘The Children Act 1989 Guidance and Regulations Volume 4: Fostering Services’ from the Department for Education
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Evidence Opportunities
Extended Learning
This articled from the FCA, an independent fostering agency, looks at ‘How being in care affects children’s mental health’.
This article from Norfolk County Council’s section on ‘Caring for a looked-after child’ covers the child’s ‘Identity’. You may wish to read the other sections, or find the equivalent document from your own local authority.
You may want to look at this Department for Education webpage to find out more about statistics on children under local authority care at national and local authority level.
Click to read ‘Attachment Theory and Children in Care’ from Fusion Fostering.
This document by Susan Hois looks at the ‘Effects of separation and loss on children’s development.
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