Annotation: Outcomes in Long‐term Foster Family Care

Minty, Brian

doi:10.1111/1469-7610.00518

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“…Lastly, when the foster parents are related to the child (kinship care), there is less probability of breakdown (Chamberlain et al, 2006;Courtney & Barth, 1996;Del Valle, López, Montserrat, & Bravo, 2009;Gleeson & Hairston, 1999;James et al, 2004;Minty, 1999;Sallnäs et al, 2004;Webster et al, 2000).…”

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Factors Affecting Foster Care Breakdown in Spain

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Breakdown of foster care has been defined as the situation in which one of the involved parties terminates the intervention before having achieved the goals established for the case plan. This work presents a study carried out with a Spanish sample of 318 closed cases of children who were placed in foster homes and kinship care. The data were collected through the exhaustive review of the child protection and foster placement files, complemented with interviews of the welfare workers in charge of each case. The rate of breakdown of the entire sample was 26.1%, although it was significantly different in kinship care (19.7%) and foster care (31.2%). The results of this study indicate that the variables related to breakdown depend on the placement modality, either in foster care or kinship care. In the first case, the variables related to the child's characteristics are noteworthy, especially behavior and academic problems, with special relevance in the 9-12-year-old group, and in children who were previously in residential care. In contrast, in kinship care, the parents' problems (prison, mental health) and having some measure of guardianship are the most important. The fact of undergoing foster placement after having lived in various residential homes is transcendental. Lastly, the availability of economic resources and even the foster carers' studies seem to be related to foster breakdown.Keywords: foster care, kinship care, child care, outcome assessment, disruption, breakdown, placement stability.La ruptura del acogimiento familiar se ha definido como aquella situación en la que alguna de las partes implicadas causa una terminación de la intervención antes de haber alcanzado los objetivos establecidos en el plan de caso. Este trabajo presenta un estudio llevado a cabo en una muestra española de 318 casos cerrados de niños que fueron acogidos en familia ajena y extensa.Los datos se obtuvieron a través de la revisión exhaustiva de los expedientes de protección y acogimiento, complementada con entrevistas a los técnicos encargados de cada caso. La tasa de ruptura del conjunto de la muestra fue de 26,1%, si bien fue significativamente diferente en familia extensa (19,7%) que en familia ajena (31,2%). Los resultados de este estudio indican que las variables relacionadas con la ruptura dependen de la modalidad del acogimiento, en familia ajena o extensa. En el primer caso destacamos las variables relacionadas con las características del niño, especialmente los problemas de conducta y escolares, con especial relevancia en el grupo de 9-12 años, y el haber estado en acogimiento residencial previamente. En cambio, en extensa resulta más importante la problemática en los padres (prisión, salud mental) y el tener una medida de tutela. También el hecho de que se realice el acogimiento tras pasar por hogares de acogida resulta trascendental. Finalmente, la disponibilidad de recursos económicos e incluso los estudios de los acogedores parecen ser variables relacionadas con la ruptura de la acogida.Palabras clave: acogimient...

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“…population in 2003 (72,634,422 (DeVooght, Allen, and Geen, 2008). Blome (1997), Buehler et al (2000), Courtney, Terao, and Bost (2004), Minty (1999), and Runyan andGould (1985, 1988).…”

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Benefits and Costs of Intensive Foster Care Services: The Casey Family Programs Compared to State Services

Zerbe

Plotnick

Kessler

et al. 2009

Contemporary Economic Policy

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"The foster care system attempts to prepare children and youth who have suffered child maltreatment for successful adult lives. This study documents the economic advantages of a privately funded foster care program that provided longer term, more intensive, and more expensive services compared to public programs. The study found significant differences in major adult educational, health, and social outcomes between children placed in the private program and those placed in public programs operated by Oregon and Washington. For the outcomes for which we could find financial data, the estimated present value of the enhanced foster care services exceeded their extra costs. Generalizing to the roughly 100,000 adolescents age 12-17 entering foster care each year, if all of them were to receive the private model of services, the savings for a single cohort of these children could be about $6.3 billion in 2007 dollars. "("JEL "D61, H75) Copyright (c) 2009 Western Economic Association International.

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“…Similar structural deficits are noted to negatively impact on the health and well-being of looked after children, with research indicating the low priority given by professionals to the health needs of these children (Butler & Payne 1997;Mather et al . 1997), the impact of placement instability in securing adequate health care (Minty 1999), the referral of looked after children to a range of disparate service providers to address their difficulties (Minnis & Del Priore 2001), the lack of co-operation and coordination between these different professionals, patchy resource provision and lack of appropriate resources (Minnis & Del Priore 2001;Callaghan et al . 2003;Nicholas et al .…”

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Widening our knowledge concerning young looked after children: the case for research using sociological models of childhood

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2006

Child & Family Social Work

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The Assessment and Action framework for looked after children, designed to improve outcomes for all children in public care and those at home on care orders, is now well established in the UK. This paper offers a critical evaluation of the framework by examining the model of childhood upon which it is premised and by exploring its relationship to children's rights as conceptualized in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989). It will be argued that the particular child development model which underpins the framework addresses the rights of looked after children to protection and provision but does not allow for their participation rights to be sufficiently addressed. A critical review of the research concerning the education and health of looked after children is used to illustrate these points. It will be argued that what are missing are the detailed accounts of looked after children themselves. It is concluded that there is a need for the development of additional research approaches premised upon sociological models of childhood. These would allow for a greater engagement with the participation rights of this group of children and complement the pre‐existing research agenda.

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Annotation: Outcomes in Long‐term Foster Family Care

Cited by 122 publications

References 36 publications

Factors Affecting Foster Care Breakdown in Spain

Factors Affecting Foster Care Breakdown in Spain

Benefits and Costs of Intensive Foster Care Services: The Casey Family Programs Compared to State Services

Widening our knowledge concerning young looked after children: the case for research using sociological models of childhood

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