Research on how local authorities support children who return home from care and their families

Buckley, Eliza

Gibb, Jennifer

Holmes, Lisa

Hyde-Dryden, Georgia

Lawson, Doug

Lea, Joanna

Lushey, Clare

Wallace, Emma

Reunification with family is the most common outcome for looked after children in England (Department of Education, 2014a). An increased policy focus in recent years has included reunification and re-entry to care data in the Improving Permanence for Looked after Children Data Pack (Department for Education, 2013) and the inclusion of reunification as part of the Children in Care research priority (Department for Education, 2014b). In addition, NSPCC has recently implemented the Taking Care practice framework in nine local authorities, intended to provide a more robust and evidence-based system of assessment and decision-making when children return home from care (Hyde-Dryden et al., 2015). The Taking Care practice framework has subsequently formed the basis for work, being jointly carried out by the University of Bristol and NSPCC, commissioned by the Department for Education (Farmer, 2015a; Farmer, 2015b; Wilkins and Farmer, 2015; Wilkins, 2015)

Georgia Hyde-Dryden (1256112)

Jennifer Gibb (2557378)

Joanna Leah (7187891)

Lisa Holmes (1255491)

Emma Wallace (3549098)

Clare Lushey (1253706)

Doug Lawson (5337638)

Loughborough University Institutional Repository

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Improving practice in respect of children who return home from care

Georgia Hyde-Dryden (7187663)

Joanna Lea (16289957)

Eliza Buckley (16289960)

Lisa Holmes (11954033)

Clare Lushey (7187894)

Sussex Research Online

Improving practice in respect of children who return home from care: research report

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Improving practice in respect of children who return home from care: research report

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