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  • Care to College | An Exploratory Study on Care-Experienced Students’ Educational Journeys 

    Care to College | An Exploratory Study on Care-Experienced Students’ Educational Journeys  “You want to be a normal child … you want to have a boundary, a healthy boundary, or maybe just kind of … some sort of division between your care status and all of that kind of traumatic stuff that has happened to...

  • Headphones, Odd Shoes & A Second Chance at Life (2023)

    Headphones, Odd Shoes & A Second Chance at Life (2023) An Exploration of the Experience of Children in Care & Care-leavers with Disabilities “For the ‘Headphones’, I would say… kind of you’re in your own reality, you’re not really paying attention to the world, and you’re just getting on with your day-to-day life as best...

  • ‘It’s about me’ (2014)

    Young People’s experience of participating in their care reviews (2014) ‘It’s about me.’ Care reviews are an integral part of the care planning process which involve making decisions about aspects of young people’s welfare while in State care, for example issues concerning their current placement, extent of family contact, education/schooling etc. The main aim of...