Sacker, Amanda;
Murray, Emily;
Lacey, Rebecca;
Maughan, Barbara;
(2021)
The lifelong health and wellbeing
trajectories of people who have been in care:
Findings from the Looked-after Children Grown up
Project.
University College London (UCL): London, UK.
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Abstract
The overarching aim of the Looked-after Children Grown Up Project (LACGro) was to use the unique data in the Office for National Statistics Longitudinal Study to build a comprehensive picture up to mid-life of the health and social functioning of care experienced members of the study. To achieve that, we set ourselves a number of objectives: • To determine whether children in residential care, kinship care and in foster care have different health and social experiences 10 to 40 years later compared to children in parental homes. • To explore if children cared for in residential settings do better or worse than children in kinship or foster care, and if children in kinship care fare better than children in foster care. • To understand if any differences in health and social difficulties vary by gender or ethnicity/migration status for those who have been looked after in childhood. • To investigate if care experiences and their outcomes differ by the census in which children are observed. • To find out what evidence there is for later resilience. Are there continuities or discontinuities in outcomes? • To explore if there is evidence that a long-term experience of care predicts better or worse outcomes than a short-term experience. • To consider if caregivers’ children are affected in the long-term by living with a child in care. Through the research, our goal was to describe the scale of inequalities in outcomes for children cared for in different places, of different ages and d identities, and to begin to understand how these factors interact to produce inequalities.
| Type: | Report |
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| Title: | The lifelong health and wellbeing trajectories of people who have been in care: Findings from the Looked-after Children Grown up Project |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/wp-content/uplo... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Foster care, health, children in care, life course |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health > Epidemiology and Public Health UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10155700 |
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