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Matching in foster care and how we can improve it

    Research
  • Tuesday, February 1, 2022
  • | CYP Now
The process of “matching” children and young people in care to their foster carers is a pivotal moment in the care journey; a good “match” decision, process of sharing information, and process of moving into the household can help a child feel safe, loved, and happy. In the UK, the majority of children in care live in fostering households and are affected by matching.

Tackling youth violence: research evidence

    Research
  • Tuesday, October 26, 2021
  • | CYP Now
Peter Henderson, the Youth Endowment Fund’s head of toolkit, on why the organisation has created a resource summarising the best research on different approaches to preventing serious youth violence.

Child sexual exploitation: research evidence

    Research
  • Tuesday, August 31, 2021
  • | CYP Now
Kairika Karsna, senior research and evaluation officer at the Centre of Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse, on why we need to ensure that we are capturing and understanding all forms of sexual abuse.

Sexual health and relationships: Research evidence

Jonathan Baggaley, chief executive of the PSHE Association, outlines research on the impact of pornography on young people and how schools can cover the topic in statutory relationships, sex and health education. Pornography and Human Futures, Fully Human Issue 1

Profit Making and Risk in Independent Children’s Social Care Placement Providers

Local authorities in England spend more than £2bn a year buying fostering and children's homes services alone from private and voluntary sector organisations (collectively referred to as the independent sector). Local authorities themselves continue to provide most foster placements, but around two in every five foster placements are made with independent sector providers. In children's homes the reverse is true. Here, three in every four placements are made in the independent sector.