Research objectives
Researchers at Cascade – the Children’s Social Research and Development Centre at Cardiff University – set out to explore how different factors affect the chances of children being taken into care, including whether there is a difference when problems affect mothers or fathers. Published by Children and Youth Services Review, March 2024.
Method
The study used various official data collected by social services and health services in Wales to identify 2,535 households where children were taken into care and examine the circumstances in those homes before children entered the care system. They also identified a comparison group of 271,991 households where children did not enter care. They looked at problems among adults in all households such as drug and alcohol misuse, learning difficulties and different types of mental health conditions and were able to compare data for single-parent households.
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