Programme - Workshops, Tuesday 8 July

 

Workshop session 3, 15.00 - 16.00

 

Effective Measures to Improve Educational Outcomes

Workshop 3.1

- Proposal to investigate the usage of care data in the UCAS application & the subject choices made by these students - Joanne Papageorgiou, UCAS, England

- Educating troubled adolescents - Cherilyn Dance, University of Bedfordshire, England

Workshop 3.2

- Reading with children: enhancing outcomes - Janet Seden, The Open University, England

- Childhood literacy: promoting activities & educational outcomes for children in the Ontario child welfare system - Shaye
Moffat, University of Ottawa, Canada

Workshop 3.3

- Reaching higher for young people in care: the ‘Stepping Stones’ programme - Ken Campbell, Aimhigher Leeds, England

- How to go higher: the value of higher education training & support programme for staff working with CIC & care leavers -
Glyn Hibberd, Aimhigher Surrey

Workshop 3.4

- ‘YIPPEE’ - Pathways to learning in Europe: retaining young people from care in post compulsory education - Sonia Jackson, Thomas Coram Research Unit, Institute of Education, England

- Aimhigher Way Ahead Project - Angela O’Sullivan, De Montfort University, Leicester, England & Jane Millward, Leicester City Council, England

Assessment & Recording Systems

Workshop 3.5

- Involving young people in decision making: the impact of the Integrated Children’s System - Wendy Rose, The Open University, England

- Service users’ experiences of case management interventions - Susan Tregeagle, Barnardos Australia and University of
Western Sydney

Workshop 3.6

- The Integrated Children’s System & disabled children: parents’ & practitioners’ initial experiences & evaluations - Wendy Mitchell, University of York, England

- Relational assessment & case planning - Gerard Bellefeuille, Grant MacEwan College, Canada

Workshop 3.7

- Supervisor role in the successful implementation of Looking After Children - Doreen Haveman, Catholic Children’s Aid Society, Canada

- From assessment to analysis - Steve Walker, Improvement & Development Agency, England & Jane Scott, Centre for Child and Family Research, Loughborough University, England

Workshop 3.8

- Assessing outcomes and monitoring data for children in residential care in Spain: the S.E.R.A.R system - Jorge F. del Valle and Amaia Bravo, University of Oviedo, Spain

- Effectiveness conditions in residential care for children & adolescents: results from an Italian study - Laura Palareti,
University of Bologna, Italy

 

Effective Measures to Improve Mental Health

Workshop 4.1

- Comparing costs of Multi-treatment foster care with those of other placements - Lisa Holmes and David Westlake, Centre for Child and Family Research, Loughborough University, England

- Very young children in need or at risk of significant harm: issues affecting parenting capacity - Emily Munro and Rebecca Brown, Centre for Child and Family Research, Loughborough University, England

Workshop 4.2

- Substance misuse & residential childcare - Michael Murphy, University of Salford, England

- Durham arts strategy for looked after children & young people - Meg Boustead, Durham County Council, England

Workshop 4.3

- Risks, needs, strengths & outcomes in child protection: what we know about the children we serve - Michael J. O'Brien, Family & Children's Services of Renfrew County, Canada

- Maltreated children's mental health: a global approach for designing specific programs - Danielle Nadeau, Centre Jeunesse de Québec, Canada

Workshop 4.4

- Emotional & behavioural problems & outcomes for adolescents ‘on the edge of care’ - Nina Biehal, University of York, England

- Patterns of illness & health service use in families where children go into public care - Doug Simkiss, Warwick Medical School, England

Assessment & Recording Systems

Workshop 4.5

- Issues, challenges & operationalisation of the use of the Assessment Framework in the Quebec context: the example of the AIDES initiative - Claire Chamberland and Danielle Lessard, University of Montréal, Canada

- Using the Strengths & Difficulties Questionnaire to aid in the early identification of looked after children's mental health needs in Ontario - Robyn A. Marquis, University of Ottawa, Canada

Workshop 4.6

- A picture of the outcomes of children in care in Victoria: using the Looking After Children programme for knowledge building & service improvement - Ruth Champion, Department of Human Services, Victoria, Australia

- The effect of the Looking After Children approach on the evolution of children in care: preliminary data from Quebec youth centres - Marie-Claude Simard, Centre Jeunesse de Québec, Canada

Workshop 4.7

- Intelligent information systems: a tool for improving practice - Terry Moore, University of Kansas, USA and Mike Gatehouse, Centre for Child and Family Research, Loughborough University, England

- Child welfare transformation at Brant: examining child & performance outcomes - Margaret Barr and Rhonda Hallberg, The Children's Aid Society of Brant, Canada

Workshop 4.8

- Implementation of the Integrated Children’s System in Sweden: a successful strategy- Kjerstin Bergman, National Board of Health & Welfare, Sweden

- The National Care Planning Project (NCPP): a multi-disciplinary approach to care planning & research for children in care -
Agnes Feely, Care Assessment and Planning Services, Ireland