Lorna Stabler, Rhiannon Evans, Jonathan Scourfield, Fiona Morgan, Alison Weightman, Simone Willis, Lydia Searchfield, Mel Meindl, Sophie Wood, Ulugbek Nurmatov, Alison Kemp, Donald Forrester, Sarah L Brand
Identifying which approaches can effectively reduce the need for out-of-home care for children is critically important. Despite the proliferation of different interventions and approaches globally, evidence summaries on this topic are limited. This study is a scoping review using a realist framework to explore what research evidence exists about reducing the number of children and young people in care. Searches of databases and websites were used to identify studies evaluating intervention effect on at least one of the following outcomes: reduction in initial entry to care; increase in family reunification post care...
July 2022: British Journal of Social Work