A thirty-year prospective study of children in residential care in the 1970s

Meltzer, Howard and Guinea-Martin, Daniel and Millard, Bryce and Blackwell, Louisa (2008) A thirty-year prospective study of children in residential care in the 1970s. Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 7 (1). ISSN 1478-1840

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Abstract

In this paper, we examine the 30-year outcomes of a random one percent sample of children residing in care homes in 1971 in a prospective study based on linked census and vital event data (deaths and live births) and we compare these outcomes with children not in care at that time.