Homeless Young People in Residential Care

1989 ◽  
Vol 70 (10) ◽  
pp. 603-610 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick J. Morrissette ◽  
Sue McIntyre
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Residential Care

scholarly journals Governance of the table: Regulation of food and eating practices in residential care for young people

2016 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-108
Author(s):  
Deirdre Byrne
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Residential Care ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Mixed Methods Design ◽  
External Regulation ◽  
Sequential Mixed Methods ◽  
Multiple Levels ◽  
The Government ◽  
Eating Practices

Abstract This paper explores how food and eating practices are governed in residential care for young people and who or what governs the table in residential care centres. The governance of everyday food and eating practices in residential care is multifaceted and conducted on multiple levels by external and internal authority and regulation. This paper draws on Coveney’s 2008 theory on ‘the government of the table’ that builds on the Foucauldian perspective of governmentality to explore the interplay between internal and external regulation, which in turn highlights the tensions between institutional and homely aspects of residential care. The approach taken involves an exploratory, sequential mixed-methods design of focused ethnography in five centres, a survey of ninety-two social care practitioners working in the field and a review of Health Information and Quality Authority inspection reports.

scholarly journals Young People’s Voice: The First Visiting Advocacy Project in Italian Residential Care for Children

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (15) ◽  
pp. 44
Author(s):  
Valentina Calcaterra ◽  
Maria Luisa Raineri
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Residential Care ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Looked After Children ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Children’S Homes ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Listening Process

This article presents the research of the project Giving Young People a Voice: Advocacy in Children’s Homes, set up as a result of the interest of a nonprofit organization working with looked-after children, with an aim to improve advocacy as a listening process and to promote the participation of children that reside in children’s homes. The research focused on the implementation of a visiting advocacy project and the activities carried out by an independent advocate working in children’s homes. The children’s evaluation of the project was collected by two focus groups; interviews were conducted with social care workers and the manager of the organization. This research deals with the implementation of the first visiting advocacy project in the context of the Italian child protection system.

Rates of overweight and obesity in a sample of Australian young people and their carers in out-of-home residential care

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (6) ◽  
pp. 591-592 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachael Cox ◽  
Helen Skouteris ◽  
Marita McCabe ◽  
Matthew Fuller-Tyszkiewicz ◽  
Amanda D. Jones ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Residential Care ◽  
Overweight And Obesity

scholarly journals ‘I’m not getting out of bed!’ The criminalisation of young people in residential care

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Gerard ◽  
Andrew McGrath ◽  
Emma Colvin ◽  
Kath McFarlane
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Young People ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Residential Care ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Care Service ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
Children In Care

Evidence from both Australian and international jurisdictions show that children in residential care are over-represented in the criminal justice system. In the current study, we interviewed 46 professionals who had contact with young people in residential care settings in New South Wales, Australia. Our sample included police officers, residential care service providers, legal aid lawyers and juvenile justice workers, about their perceptions of the link between residential care and contact with the criminal justice system. Factors identified by the participants included the care environment itself, use of police as a behavioural management tool, deficient staff training and inadequate policies and funding to address the over-representation. These factors, combined with the legacy of Australia’s colonial past, were a particularly potent source of criminalisation for Aboriginal children in care.

Interactions of shame: violence against children in residential care

2020 ◽  
pp. 99-118
Author(s):  
Marie Demant ◽  
Friederike Lorenz
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Residential Care ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Care Home ◽  
Institutional Setting ◽  
Violence Against Children ◽  
Seeking Help ◽  
Empirical Material ◽  
Independent Inquiry

Within their chapter Marie Demant and Friederike Lorenz discuss the role of shame in the context of violence against children in residential care. Their work is based on two empirical projects and includes reports of survivors of sexual violence, who reported their experiences in hearings conducted by the German ‘Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse’, which started its work in 2016. It furthermore includes empirical material from a research project on systematic violence by a team of professionals in a residential care home for children with disabilities. Both perspectives indicate how young people experience shame and humiliation as part of the institutional setting. Furthermore, it shows the negative impact these practices have on children and adolescents in situations of dependency, seeking help, and disclosure. It points out practices of humiliation as a part of the violence and shows to which extent shame can affect the possibilities for young people in these situations to be heard and to get help.

Poverty and Crime in Young People From Children Protection Centers

2022 ◽  
pp. 242-262
Author(s):  
Sonia Castizo Vega ◽  
Salvador Cutiño-Raya ◽  
Francisco Espasandin-Bustelo
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Young People ◽  
Residential Care ◽  
Multidimensional Poverty ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Two Stage ◽  
Determining Factors ◽  
High Level ◽  
Educational Field ◽  
Sports Activities

Young people who are in a situation of residential care are considered to be in a condition of multidimensional poverty. Research aims to achieve the following general objectives: first, to identify the level of delinquency of young people and its determining factors and, second, to propose strategies and programs. This research will follow a two-stage research process in which different research methods will be applied. Along with the main results, the authors point out that the most frequent crimes refer to these youngsters getting involved in gang fights; alcohol consumption; in attacking classmates, parents, and teachers; they steal money and or other objects from the collaborating family; they consume pornography and go out to discotheques, pubs, and nightclubs. In the educational field, although they are dedicated to their education, they obtain very low grades. They only participate moderately in sports activities and have very low participation in religious services; furthermore, the young men have a moderately high level of belief in the legal system.

Residential care for social reasons

2012 ◽  
pp. 1799-1802
Author(s):  
Leslie Hicks ◽  
Ian Sinclair
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Young People ◽  
Residential Care ◽  
Clear Definition ◽  
Victorian England ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Current Characteristics ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
Developed World

Residential care for the young is an elusive object of study. Provided in the past by establishments as diverse as workhouses, orphanages, and reformatories, it has no clear definition marking its boundaries with foster care or boarding education; at the same time it variously aims to shelter, classify, control, and reform and it has no agreed theory or body of values. The need for residential care, and the difficulties of providing it, vary with time and place; the issues it raises are quite different in Romania than they are in California, or were in Victorian England. Given this diversity, any discussion of residential care needs to outline the context within which it was written. In the case of this chapter the context is provided by current British social policy. Although the focus is on residential care provided to young people by Children's Services in England for social reasons, the conclusions drawn are applicable to the rest of the United Kingdom. The issues raised by this provision have similarities in other parts of the developed world, in virtually all of which the use of residential care is declining. This chapter is written against the background of this decline. Its aims are as follows: ♦ to describe the current characteristics of residential child care in England, and by extension in Great Britain ♦ to outline the problems that have led to its numerical decline ♦ to identify practices that should overcome or reduce these problems ♦ to discuss the role that residential care might play in future.

Indigenous Children and Young People in Residential Care: A Systematic Scoping Review

2019 ◽  
pp. 152483801988170
Author(s):  
Kathomi Gatwiri ◽  
Lynne McPherson ◽  
Natalie Parmenter ◽  
Nadine Cameron ◽  
Darlene Rotumah
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Residential Care ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Residential Care Facilities ◽  
Indigenous Children ◽  
Trauma Informed ◽  
Colonial Histories ◽  
Children In Care

In Australia and internationally, Indigenous children are seriously overrepresented in the child welfare system. This article provides an overview of literature investigating the needs of Indigenous children in residential care facilities. The provision of culturally safe and trauma-informed therapeutic care to Indigenous children and young people in residential care recognizes that the trauma and violence that they have experienced is exacerbated by their Indigeneity due to the colonial histories presenting. Utilizing a systematic scoping review methodology, the study returned a total of 637 peer-reviewed articles that were identified and reviewed for inclusion. The process of exclusion resulted in the inclusion of eight peer-reviewed studies and 51 reports and discussion papers sourced from gray literature. Findings from this study, though dearth, indicate that trauma-informed and culturally safe interventions play a significant role in Indigenous children’s health and well-being while in care. Their experiences of abuse and neglect transcend individual trauma and include intergenerational pain and suffering resulting from long-lasting impacts of colonization, displacement from culture and country, genocidal policies, racism, and the overall systemic disadvantage. As such, a therapeutic response, embedded within Indigenous cultural frameworks and knowledges of trauma, is not only important but absolutely necessary and aims to acknowledge the intersectionality between the needs of Indigenous children in care and the complex systemic disadvantage impacting them.

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