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  • Supporting long-term foster care: evaluation

    Evaluation of Match Foster Care's performance in providing foster care placements as well as support for foster children and their families.

    • Document type: Research and analysis
    • Organisation: Department for Education
    • Updated:
  • 'KEEP Standard' training programme for foster and kinship carers

    Review of a 16-week training programme for foster and kinship carers to help them improve the way they deal with difficult behaviour.

    • Document type: Research and analysis
    • Organisation: Department for Education
    • Updated:
  • Post-adoption support interventions: independent evidence review

    Review of evidence relating to 15 post-adoption support therapeutic interventions for children and families.

    • Document type: Research and analysis
    • Organisation: Department for Education
    • Updated:
  • Children looked after in England including adoption: 2014 to 2015

    Information on looked-after children at both national and local authority levels for the financial year 2014 to 2015.

    • Document type: National Statistics
    • Part of a collection: Statistics: looked-after children
    • Organisation: Department for Education
    • Updated:
  • Adoption support fund: learning from the prototype

    Research into the adoption support fund's funding of adoptive families’ access to therapy.

    • Document type: Research
    • Part of a collection: Evaluations of the adoption support fund
    • Organisation: Department for Education
    • Updated:
  • Notifications of private fostering arrangements in England: 2015

    The number of notifications of private fostering arrangements in England during the year ending 31 March 2015.

    • Document type: National Statistics
    • Part of a collection: Statistics: private fostering - 2010 to 2015
    • Organisation: Department for Education
    • Updated:
  • Children looked after in England including adoption: 2013 to 2014

    Information on looked-after children at both national and local authority levels for the financial year 2013 to 2014.

    • Document type: National Statistics
    • Part of a collection: Statistics: looked-after children
    • Organisation: Department for Education
    • Updated:
  • Notifications of private fostering arrangements in England: 2014

    The number of notifications of private fostering arrangements in England during the year ending 31 March 2014.

    • Document type: National Statistics
    • Part of a collection: Statistics: private fostering - 2010 to 2015
    • Organisation: Department for Education
    • Updated:
  • Adoption and fostering: understanding motivations and barriers

    Research into the attitudes of potential adopters and foster carers.

    • Document type: Research and analysis
    • Organisation: Department for Education
    • Updated:
  • Beyond the adoption order: challenges, intervention, disruption

    Research looking at adoption disruptions and how the adoption system can be improved.

    • Document type: Research and analysis
    • Organisation: Department for Education
    • Updated:
  • Notifications of private fostering arrangements in England: 2013

    The number of notifications of private fostering arrangements in England during the year ending 31 March 2013.

    • Document type: National Statistics
    • Part of a collection: Statistics: private fostering - 2010 to 2015
    • Organisation: Department for Education
    • Updated:
  • Adoption cases: study of process and practice

    This report presents the findings from an evaluation of the current adoption process.

    • Document type: Research and analysis
    • Organisation: Department for Education
    • Updated:
  • Randomised controlled trial of the Fostering Changes programme

    Report into the fostering changes programme, which looked to provide foster carers with practical advice for managing challenging behaviour.

    • Document type: Research and analysis
    • Organisation: Department for Education
    • Updated:
  • Notifications of private fostering arrangements in England: 2012

    The number of notifications of private fostering arrangements in England during the year ending 31 March 2012.

    • Document type: National Statistics
    • Part of a collection: Statistics: private fostering - 2010 to 2015
    • Organisation: Department for Education
    • Updated:
  • The demographic characteristics of foster carers in the UK

    This review examines existing research on what motivates individuals and families to become foster carers and the barriers they identify.

    • Document type: Research and analysis
    • Organisation: Department for Education
    • Updated:
  • Children looked after in England including adoption: 2010 to 2011

    Information on looked-after children at both national and local authority levels for the financial year 2010 to 2011.

    • Document type: Official Statistics
    • Part of a collection: Statistics: looked-after children
    • Organisation: Department for Education
    • Updated:
  • Notifications of private fostering arrangements in England: 2011

    The number of notifications of private fostering arrangements in England during the year ending 31 March 2011.

    • Document type: National Statistics
    • Part of a collection: Statistics: private fostering - 2010 to 2015
    • Organisation: Department for Education
    • Updated:
  • Children looked after in England including adoption: 2009 to 2010

    Information on looked-after children at both national and local authority levels for the financial year 2009 to 2010.

    • Document type: National Statistics
    • Part of a collection: Statistics: looked-after children
    • Organisation: Department for Education
    • Updated:
  • Notifications of private fostering arrangements in England: 2010

    The number of notifications of private fostering arrangements in England during the year ending 31 March 2010.

    • Document type: National Statistics
    • Part of a collection: Statistics: private fostering - 2010 to 2015
    • Organisation: Department for Education
    • Updated: