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- Title: Schooling and Looked After Children: Exploring Contexts and Outcomes in Standard Attainment Tests (Sats) (Report)
- Author : Adoption & Fostering
- Release Date : January 22, 2008
- Genre: Family & Relationships,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 272 KB
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Introduction The special edition of this journal (Adoption & Fostering 31:1, Spring 2007) that focused on the education of looked after children offered insightful accounts of the educational careers of looked after children. In particular, the recollections by Collette Isabel Stadler revealed her unhappy and fractured 'patchwork' education while accommodated. Likewise, the article by O'Sullivan and Westerman tracked the achievements of looked after children from GCSE back through Key Stages 3, 2 and 1, and outlined the associations between placement moves and poor outcomes. By contrast, the special issue also reports success stories (Cameron; Jackson and Ajayi; Mallon) about the educational attainment of care leavers, notably those who go to university, as well as adults who have underachieved in the care system but enjoy academic success later in life. Such studies offer optimism while recognising that the educational progress of looked after children needs to be kept high on the policy and practice agenda.