Abstract
Since the 1970s, there has been growing academic interest in children and young people living in state care and, more recently, in the lives of disabled children. However, there has been little attention on the lives of disabled children who are looked after by the state. This paper compares and critiques what is known about the numbers of disabled children who are looked after in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. We discuss the conceptual and methodological limitations of systematically collecting data on disabled children in state care across the UK. We argue that to ensure that the rights of disabled children in state care are identified, acknowledged and upheld, 'being counted' is a fundamental first step.
| Language | English |
|---|---|
| Journal | Child and Family Social Work |
| Early online date | 19 Jun 2015 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 19 Jun 2015 |
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Keywords
- child welfare
- children's services
- disabled children
- looked-after children
- prevalence studies
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Being counted? Examining the prevalence of looked-after disabled children and young people across the UK. / Hill, Louise; Baker, Claire; Kelly, Bernadette; Dowling, Sandra.
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T1 - Being counted? Examining the prevalence of looked-after disabled children and young people across the UK
AU - Hill, Louise
AU - Baker, Claire
AU - Kelly, Bernadette
AU - Dowling, Sandra
N1 - This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Hill, L., Baker, C., Kelly, B. and Dowling, S. (2015), Being counted? Examining the prevalence of looked-after disabled children and young people across the UK. Child & Family Social Work, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cfs.12239. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving (http://olabout.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-820227.html#terms).
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N2 - Since the 1970s, there has been growing academic interest in children and young people living in state care and, more recently, in the lives of disabled children. However, there has been little attention on the lives of disabled children who are looked after by the state. This paper compares and critiques what is known about the numbers of disabled children who are looked after in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. We discuss the conceptual and methodological limitations of systematically collecting data on disabled children in state care across the UK. We argue that to ensure that the rights of disabled children in state care are identified, acknowledged and upheld, 'being counted' is a fundamental first step.
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