"Life After Care Conference" 2009

In September 2009 40 care leavers came together for the "Life After Care Conference" organised by the Debate Project. The Conference Report on the experiences of the attendees is available here.

Highlights from Careknowledge December

Ross, N. (2009). Young fathers and their experiences of forming families, a study from the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships.
Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland. (2009) Too Close to See. Report into the care and treatment of Mr F. Deficiencies in this care contributed to a serious incident and the death of Mr F.'s father.
Heslop, P & Macauley, F. (2010). Damage Limitation. Learning Disability today. Jan 2010, pp. 16-18. On research with people with learning diasabilities who self-harm.

Glasgow gangs and violence reduction

Strathclyde Police's Community Initiative to Reduce Violence report a 49.2% drop in recorded violent activity among gang member participants in the initiative. CIRV takes the approach of working with a gang as a unit and works with the gang to address offending behaviour.

National Safeguarding Delivery Unit report published

The NSDU was established in response to Lord Lamin's report on The Protection of Children in England. The first NSDU report outlines its priorities in developing the Independent Serious Case Review and identifying and disseminating lessons to be learnerd from the SRC and Child Death overview panels.

Are mother and baby units the best option?

Doing time with mum. Beth Gardiner meets women bringing up theri babies in prison. Guardian 19 December.

Adoption research paper from the Social Policy Research Unit, University of York

Characteristics, outcomes and meanings of three types of permanent placement - adoption by strangers, adoption by carers and long-term foster care. September 2009.

Substance Exposed Infants - Paper from the USA

Substance-exposed infants: state responses to the problem
It might be interesting to contrast this paper from the US. Department of Health and Human Services, National Centre on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare with current practice in the UK.