Programme - Workshops, Monday 7 July
Effective Measures to Improve Stability
Workshop 1.1
- Enhancing placement stability via a continuum of care approach: reflections from the Australian context - Deirdre Cheers, Centacare Catholic Family Services (Brokenbay), Australia
- Adoption: an alternative to long-term fostering in child welfare - Turid Vogt Grinde, NOVA, Norway
Workshop 1.2
- Better futures? Experience and outcomes of children and young people in residential care - Andrew Kendrick,
University of Strathclyde, Scotland
- Sharing the care? Birth parents’ perception of foster care placements - Dr Ingrid Höjer, Göteborg University, Sweden
Workshop 1.3
- Issues in kinship care - Anneke J.G. Vinke, Leiden University, The Netherlands
- Outcomes and stability in placements with kin compared with stranger foster care - Elaine Farmer, University of Bristol, England
Workshop 1.4
- Ontario Practice Model - Patricia Gamble, Ontario Association of Children’s Aid Societies, Canada
- The relationship between foster parent training & outcomes for looked after children in Canada - Jordanna J. Nash,
University of Ottawa, Canada
Workshop 1.5
-Children's needs, types and costs of placements and their stability: comparisons using the Cost Calculator for Children's Services - Jean Soper and Lisa Holmes, Centre for Child and Family Research, Loughborough University, England
- Working at the 'edges' of care? European models of support for young people and families - Janet Boddy, Thomas Coram
Research Unit, Institute of Education, England
Effective Measures to Promote the Wellbeing of Looked After Children
Workshop 2.1
- What are the training needs of foster carers who look after unaccompanied asylum-seeking young people? - Hannah Stott, Barnado's Apex Project, England
- Preparation & transition planning for unaccompanied asylum-seeking young people: a review of existing evidence in
England - Jim Wade, University of York, England
Workshop 2.2
- Mapping the impact of children's advocacy services - Professor Andy Pithouse, Cardiff University, Wales
- The challenge of growing up in care: a longitudinal study of outcomes - Elizabeth Fernandez, University of New South Wales, Australia
Workshop 2.3
- Late outcomes for siblings reared in long-term placement in Children's Villages - Annick Camille Dumaret, CERMES and INSERM, Paris, France
- Tracking Footprints: a global research project - Claudia Moedlagl, SOS Kinderdorf International, Austria
Workshop 2.4
- Better outcomes for children - is that an Unquestioning Goal? Some news from the Russian family placements battlefield - Maria Ternovskaya, Our Family, Moscow, Russia
- Resilience in Aboriginal Children and Adolescents in Out-of-Home Care: A Test of an Initial Explanatory Model - Katharine
Filbert, University of Ottawa, Canada
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