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Improving the participation of young people in care in further and higher education : European research and practice / Sonia Jackson and Claire Cameron.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Philadelphia, PA : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2014Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780857007414
  • 0857007416
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Improving the participation of young people in care in further and higher educationDDC classification:
  • 378.1/9826942094 23
LOC classification:
  • LC4096.A2 J33 2014eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Education and social inclusion -- Welfare regimes and individual educational progression -- Study design -- England: a targeted approach / Hanan Hauari and Claire Cameron, Thomas Coram Research Unit, UK -- Denmark: participation for all? / Inge M. Bryderup, Danish Pedagogical University, Denmark and Claire Cameron -- Hungary: education and care in transition / Marta Korintus and Andrea Rácz, National Institute for Family and Social Policy, Hungary and Claire Cameron -- Spain: stability and extended support / Carme Monserrat and Ferran Casas, Research Institute on Quality of Life, University of Girona, Spain, with Sonia Jackson -- Sweden: a long and winding road / Helena Johansson and Ingrid Höjer, Department of Social Work, University of Göteborg, Sweden -- Looking across countries -- Finding a way forward.
Summary: Across Europe young people in care are around five times less likely to attend tertiary education than those who have not been in care. Drawing extensively on a substantial three-year long research project led by the authors, this book provides a comprehensive account of this shocking discrepancy and discusses ways to address the imbalance.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Education and social inclusion -- Welfare regimes and individual educational progression -- Study design -- England: a targeted approach / Hanan Hauari and Claire Cameron, Thomas Coram Research Unit, UK -- Denmark: participation for all? / Inge M. Bryderup, Danish Pedagogical University, Denmark and Claire Cameron -- Hungary: education and care in transition / Marta Korintus and Andrea Rácz, National Institute for Family and Social Policy, Hungary and Claire Cameron -- Spain: stability and extended support / Carme Monserrat and Ferran Casas, Research Institute on Quality of Life, University of Girona, Spain, with Sonia Jackson -- Sweden: a long and winding road / Helena Johansson and Ingrid Höjer, Department of Social Work, University of Göteborg, Sweden -- Looking across countries -- Finding a way forward.

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Across Europe young people in care are around five times less likely to attend tertiary education than those who have not been in care. Drawing extensively on a substantial three-year long research project led by the authors, this book provides a comprehensive account of this shocking discrepancy and discusses ways to address the imbalance.

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