Dr Dennis Golm (Journal Editor) and Vicky Walker (Production Editor) introduce Volume 48 Issue 3-4 of our 'Adoption & Fostering' journal. The final instalment of Volume 48 is a bumper issue, containing eight research articles. Wellbeing, adolescence and the role of the government are key themes in this edition.
Adoption & Fostering is the only quarterly peer-reviewed journal dedicated to adoption, fostering and kinship issues. Over the years, it has gained an international reputation as one of the world’s leading sources of knowledge for academics, practitioners and all those concerned with childcare practice and research.
Edited by Dr Dennis Golm, Adoption & Fostering is published by SAGE on behalf of the CoramBAAF Adoption & Fostering Academy.
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Editorial
Number Ten?! Making care experience the 10th protected characteristic under the Equality Act
Dennis Golm
Articles
‘I had my guard up for a long time and that probably didn’t help’: Exploring care leavers’ experiences of the barriers to accessing mental health support during adolescence using photo-elicitation and Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
Helena Young, Yvonne Melia, Laura Chance-Lawton
What is important to young people in care during adolescence? A qualitatively driven photo-elicitation study
Tom Matthews, Siobhan Hugh-Jones
The uncounted and unseen challenges of refugee foster families in Kampala, Uganda
Manya Oriel Kagan, Noga Shanee
The association between school belonging and wellbeing in looked after adolescents: A pilot study
Abigail Cohman, Dennis Golm, Cora Sergeant
An ABCX model of family adjustment in adoption and permanent fostering of children with intellectual disability
Noemí García-Sanjuán, Ana Berástegui, Rosalía Mota
Making decisions about long-term foster family care as a permanence plan in England: An investigation of the implementation of the first government regulations and guidance for long-term foster care
Gillian Schofield, Birgit Larsson, Elsbeth Neil, Julie Young
Predictors of attachment in early- and late-placed adoptees
Saul Hillman, Nahed Lajmi, Jill Hodges, Jeanne Kaniuk, Miriam Steele
Two service evaluations of LEAPlets – An early years programme for children in foster care and adoption, based on the BUSS® (Building Underdeveloped Sensorimotor Systems) Model
Sarah Lloyd, Natalie Jones, Danielle Smith