Formulating foster care in Scotland for young children's emotional and mental wellbeing

Mackay, Kirsteen and Smith, Connie and Morton, Lucy and Jones, Christine and Scullin, Kirsty and Taylor, Julie (2015) Formulating foster care in Scotland for young children's emotional and mental wellbeing. The University of Edinburgh/NSPCC Child Protection Research Centre, Edinburgh.

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Abstract

Foster carers can play a key role in supporting a child’s recovery from abuse and neglect and improving their mental health, but optimising this requires appropriate formulation of the care arrangements. This is a report on a scoping study into the extent to which the way foster care as conceived and supported, provides the basis for meeting the emotional and mental health needs of young children. It focuses on children aged up to 60 months who have been removed from their parents’ care because of maltreatment, or risk of maltreatment and who have been placed in state provided (non-familial) foster care provision in Scotland. The project had three main objectives: 1. To establish what is known about the emotional and mental health needs of young children (aged zero to five years) coming into the care system. 2. To look at the preparation and support for foster carers in Scotland relevant to caring for these children, through analysis of local authority documents. 3. To explore the experience of foster carers in meeting the emotional and mental health needs of children, through interviews with a sample of foster carers.

ORCID iDs

Mackay, Kirsteen, Smith, Connie, Morton, Lucy, Jones, Christine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9466-5844, Scullin, Kirsty and Taylor, Julie;
  • Item type:Report
    ID code:58010
    Dates:
    Date
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    28 February 2015
    Published
    Subjects:Social Sciences
    Department:UNSPECIFIED
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:03 Oct 2016 11:04
    Last modified:11 Nov 2024 15:46
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    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/58010
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