Nikki Luke, Researcher, Rees Centre, University of Oxford, England A recent study by Sebba et al. (2015) used English national databases on children’s care and educational experiences to identify the factors that facilitate or limit educational progress for young people in care at age 16. An extensive period of data preparation on this project included the creation and selection […]
Nadine Lanctôt, Researcher, Université de Sherbrooke, CANADA Mathilde Turcotte, Researcher, Université Laval, CANADA This presentation aims to contribute to a better understanding of the placement experiences and their impacts throughout the lenses of ambiguous loss. Ambiguous loss is “an unclear loss that continues without resolution or closure” (Boss and Yeats, 2014: 63). Placement experiences could represent two forms of ambiguous loss. On one […]
Yafit Sulimani-Aidan, Researcher, Tel Aviv University, Israel Background: As youth leave care, their expectations and aspirations as well as their planning for their future lives are especially important. Although earlier studies examined these vulnerable young people’s challenges in transition to adulthood, they did not explore these challenges with regards to their own plans and expectations for their future. Therefore, […]
João Carvalho, Researcher, University Institute of Maia, Portugal Paulo Delgado, Researcher, Escola Superior de Educação do Porto, Portugal Vânia Pinto, PhD student, University of Oxford, United Kingdom This study aims to analyse risk judgments and reunification decisions made by a sample of 200 professionals of the Portuguese child care system and 200 higher education students of social work and similar areas, in face of a case vignette […]