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Improving the Effectiveness of Virtual Schools

On average, looked-after children do less well at school than their peers with marked differences in educational outcomes between local authority areas. Virtual schools are local authority teams that support the learning of children in care. This study by the University of Exeter, University of Oxford and the National Association of Virtual School Heads (NAVSH) set out to explore the effectiveness of virtual schools and how this could be improved.

Outcomes for Looked-after Children Attending Boarding Schools

    Research
  • Wednesday, August 30, 2023
    • | CYP Now
Researchers from the University of Nottingham were commissioned by the Royal National Children's Springboard Foundation (RNCSF) to evaluate its boarding school programme for children in care or on the edge of care and help understand the potential educational and economic benefits.

Creative Life Story Work strengthens care relationships

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  • Tuesday, January 31, 2023
    • | CYP Now
Evaluation of a creative, relational approach to life story work has shown it to be higher quality and more collaborative than traditional life story work, and that it helps to develop and strengthen relationships between care-experienced children and young people and their carers.

Children's Online User Ages Quantitative Research Study

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  • Tuesday, January 3, 2023
    • | CYP Now
Children and young people can get around age restrictions on social media apps and websites, increasing the risk of them coming to harm online. To understand the extent to which children are bypassing age checks, UK communications regulator Ofcom commissioned research to get an idea of how many children have online profiles that make them appear older than they actually are.

Commissioning Care – Research evidence: Sufficiency report

This report provides analysis of all up-to-date local authority sufficiency strategies with a focus on identifying the main perceived challenges for councils to meet their sufficiency duty, what actions are being undertaken or planned to improve commissioning outcomes, and perceived negative consequences associated with using certain commissioning or market shaping approaches.

Matching in foster care and how we can improve it

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  • 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.

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