CYP Now - Research Report: Understanding the Market and the Use of Out-of-Authority Placements

Researchers set out to identify the key factors influencing local authority decisions to place children in residential care inside and outside local authority boundaries.

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Authors Emily R Munro, Sam McDermid, Katie Hollingworth, Claire Cameron

Published by Childhood Wellbeing Research Centre, January 2014

SUMMARY

This study - Children's Homes: Understanding the Market and the Use of Out-of-Authority Placements - was undertaken by the Childhood Wellbeing Research Centre, a partnership between the Thomas Coram Research Unit and other centres at the Institute of Education, the Centre for Child and Family Research at Loughborough University and the Personal Social Services Research Unit at the University of Kent. The researchers, who were commissioned by the Department for Education, set out to identify the key factors influencing local authority decisions to place children in residential care both within and outside local authority boundaries. They wanted to examine the challenges and issues that arise when children are placed out of authority and how these might be overcome.

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