... implications Care leavers remain systemically disadvantaged in comparison to young people who have not been in care. Research has shown that children in care and care leavers are often disadvantaged educationally and experience higher rates of homelessness, unemployment and social isolation. This paper...

... presents a deliberative reflection on practice and policy lessons learned while negotiating the digital divide during the COVID-19 lockdown in the delivery of the yourtown education youth engagement programme. Findings Frontline youth worker practice lessons highlight the compounding effect of digital...

... of interventions to involve engaging parents more in their children’s education in order to raise school attainment. Goldstein et al. make a large number of unwarranted claims about its quality. They reproach the authors for using reports of unpublished evidence, for mis-labelling or mis-describing...

... Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Education Supervision Training Social work Casework Statutory She’ll look at the first video and say, that’s not a meeting. You haven’t even held a meeting. You have just chatted. And you call yourself a social...

... ; O’Connell et al., 2009 ; Waters, 2011 ; Zins et al., 2004). Most educators, parents and students believe that schools need to provide more than academic instruction in order to ensure that children are successful not only in school but also in life (Civic Enterprises et al...

...Karen Schucan Bird; Janice Tripney; Mark Newman Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of young people's participation in organised sport on their educational outcomes. Design/methodology/approach – Systematic review of the literature. A comprehensive search was used...

...Jennifer Driscoll Purpose There has been little research on the education of looked after children over the current school leaving age of 16, although the underperformance of this cohort at Key Stage 4 (age 14‐16) has been the subject of considerable academic commentary. This paper aims...

...Michele McClung; Vernon Gayle Purpose The purpose of this article is to explore whether the concept of social capital is helpful in explaining the educational underachievement of looked after children. Design/methodology/approach Analysis of data on educational achievement and social care...

... and education systems among a number of causal factors. The age and timing of entry to the care system suggests some reasons why children in care may do so much worse educationally than their non‐care peers. Sinclair et al. (2007) (summarised in Mooney et al., 2009) describe the age...

... whose carers are not able to provide it. The Guidance on residential care (DH, 1991c) acknowledges that young people accommodated in children s homes can be especially disadvantaged educationally and advises that they should be given every opportunity to take full advantage of educational opportunities...

... for understanding the impact of an intervention. Contemporary research on educational experiments has tended to focus on programme results rather than on their origin or implementation. While programme results are important, they provide little guidance to those interested in designing and implementing programme...

... to this relationship. Nevertheless, the volume of high-quality research in this area is surprisingly limited and there is a need for more comprehensive studies. Key words housing; homelessness; overcrowding; health; education; behaviour 1 Co-Director, Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) Introduction Children...