Improving outcomes for care leavers : evaluating a care leaver's assessment of need tool

Harrington, Wendy (2006) Improving outcomes for care leavers : evaluating a care leaver's assessment of need tool. Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 5 (1). ISSN 1478-1840

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Abstract

Care leavers' poor outcomes across a range of areas have been well documented since the 1980s. Their vulnerability to homelessness, poor educational achievement, mental ill health and offending (Biehal, Claydon, Stein and Wade,1992; Stein and Wade, 2000; Scottish Executive, 2002a) is well understood but this understanding has not necessarily led to improved practice.

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