Research

The Outcome of Institutional Youth Care Compared to Non-Institutional Youth Care for Children of Primary School Age and Early Adolescence: a Multi-Level Meta-Analysis

After 48 years of involvement in residential child care, this year has seen me taking some time to reflect on where residential child care is now and where it might be going. One aspect of reflection has been regarding knowledge and knowledge production.

This is the only document relating to residential child care currently on the What Works in Children’s Social Care (WWCSC) website evidence pages.

The research abstract advises it was “undertaken to ‘gain knowledge … (to) help the decision for referral of children to institutional youth care or other types of care (e.g., foster care or community-based care), and improve outcomes for children in youth care”.

The WWCSC says “busy professionals need help to identify the most promising ways of working” and so their ambition is (to) “generate, collate and make accessible the best evidence for practitioners, policymakers and practice leaders to improve children’s social care and the outcomes…”.

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