I Sinclair
Biographic Data
| ID | 18936 |
|---|---|
| NAME | I Sinclair |
| GIVEN NAMES | I |
| FAMILY NAME | Sinclair |
| SIGNATURE | SINCLAIR I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of York |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2052-4234 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 157 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Special schools, alternative provision, and the educational attainment of children with special educational needs in England
Most countries expect children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) to attend mainstream schools (MS). English local authorities are committed to this ideal but vary widely in their use of non-mainstream schools (NMS) for pupils with SEND. This paper explores the consequences of these variations for the attainment of pupils with SEND in national examinations at age 16. The paper uses 9-years longitudinal data on an English natio…
Closing the Gap’
In high-income countries, children ‘in care’ have, on average, much lower educational attainment than their peers. We explore the hypothesis that this gap can be lessened by reducing the use of non-mainstream schools (NMS). We analysed a national longitudinal data-set comprising state-educated children eligible for national examinations in 2013 at the age of sixteen years (n = 642,805), including a sub-sample of 4,847 children looked after contin…
‘Closing the gap’
BSTRACTChildren ‘in care’ have, on average, lower educational attainment than their peers. This article tests the hypothesis that many of these children can ‘catch-up’, if in stable placements and secondary schools ‘apparently effective’ with other children with ‘similar’ difficulties. In a cohort of 542,998 16-year-old English children in mainstream schools, those in care for at least a year were on average 148,465 ranks behind their peers on me…
The education of children in care and children in need
We seek to explain the development of the educational gap between children in “out‐of‐home care” (CLA), children deemed in social need (CIN), and other pupils. A cohort of 642,805 pupils aged 16 in 2013 was used to chart the educational progress of the full cohort, the CLA ( n = 6,236), the CIN in 2012 or 2013 but not CLA ( n = 20,384), and a sample individually matched with the CLA ( n = 11,084). At age 7, attainment of the CLA and CIN was appro…
The use of computed tomography for the study of archaeological coins
Trials and Tribulations
Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) have rarely been used in evaluations of social work interventions with children in the UK. This article discusses the use of an RCT in the national evaluation of Multi-dimensional Treatment Foster Care for Adolescents (MTFC-A) in the English care system. A number of challenges were encountered in recruiting young people to the trial. These included professional anxieties about randomisation, concerns about acco…
Intensive Fostering
Nina Biehal, Sarah Ellison and Ian Sinclair present the results of an independent evaluation of the Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care (MTFC) programme for young offenders in England, where it is known as Intensive Fostering (IF). A quasi-experimental, mixed-methods study was carried out at the three pilot sites, with a total sample of 47 at follow-up. Young people sentenced to IF were compared to a similar group, matched on the eligibility c…
Intensive fostering
Looked after Children
In a reply to the preceding article, Ian Sinclair examines the four main arguments put forward in Michael Little's challenge to current social care provision: the care system is not ethical, it is out of date and arbitrary, and too little is known about it. Furthermore, there is an alternative
An Exemplary Scheme? An Evaluation of the Integrated Children's System
We outline selected central results from a formative evaluation of four pilot sites in England and Wales of the Integrated Children's System (ICS) – one part of the UK's e-Government strategy. We concentrate on the aspiration of the ICS towards ‘integration’ and ‘systematization’ of services within children's services, at local and national levels. We look in turn at, the use of the ICS as a foundation for aggregate statistical profiles; the expe…
A Child Well-Being Index at Small Area Level in England
Can the Corporate State Parent
Discussions about provision for children in the care of the state have continually raised the question, can the corporate state parent? Roger Bullock, Mark E Courtney, Roy Parker, Ian Sinclair and June Thoburn consider the question in the light of recent studies of separated children. It is argued that while the state does not need to fulfil all parenting responsibilities when care is shared with families or children are adopted, for three groups…
Can the corporate state parent
Foster Carers
Matches and Mismatches
Journal Article Matches and Mismatches: The Contribution of Carers and Children to the Success of Foster Placements Get access Ian Sinclair, Ian Sinclair Correspondence to Professor Ian Sinclair, Social Work Research and Development Unit, University of York, York YO10 5DD. E‐mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Kate Wilson Kate Wilson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academ…
Kinship and Stranger Foster Carers
US research suggests that kinship foster carers are a valued resource but less well supported than carers who are strangers. Jennifer Sykes, Ian Sinclair, Ian Gibbs and Kate Wilson draw on data from their own large-scale study of foster carers to see if similar issues arise in England. The study suggests that kinship carers are a heterogeneous group. Some want to be treated as carers entitled to similar levels of financial reward, and in need of …
A Life More Ordinary’
Based on findings from their recent study, Ian Sinclair, Kate Wilson and Ian Gibbs discuss the criteria which foster care needs to meet if it is to fulfill the requirements of looked after children. Analysis of 150 postal questionnaires from foster children showed five main preoccupations: the care they received from their foster families; the relationship between their feelings for their foster and their birth families; their contact with and pr…
Globalisation and Regional Renewal
Mental health in residential homes
Two linked studies assess the feasibility of involving care staff in reducing the prevalence of depression in homes for older people. Mental health training was provided for care staff, delivered by members of a Community Mental Health Team for the Elderly. The research programme used quantitative and qualitative methods to evaluate the effects of a theoretical training for care staff, a system of mentoring care staff to reinforce the training; a…
The trouble with foster care
The article draws on the first stages of a large-scale longitudinal study into foster care with 'looked after' children. It uses data supplied by 950 foster carers in response to a postal questionnaire designed to document the proportions who had experienced one or more of six potentially stressful 'events': breakdowns or disruptions, allegations, relationship with birth parents, family tensions, 'tug of love' cases, and other disagreements with …
Measuring the turbulence of English Children's Homes
Staff Qualifications and Ratios in Children’s Homes
English Official reports into methods of improving the performance of children’s homes have focused on staff training, staff ratios and size. This article tests these conclusions on 48 children’s homes. It develops a measure of performance based on the social climate of a home and relates this to size, to the proportion of qualified staff, to whether the head of home was qualified and to staff ratios. The analysis supports the importance of size …
Efficiency of Procedures and Working Methods
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Comparison of Statistics
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Residential Care for Elderly People
Given the vulnerability of elderly people living in long-term hospitals and in other forms of institutional provision, it is essential that the quality of their care is as high as possible. This observation, moreover, has widespread relevance irrespective of variations in the structure of health and social care provision in different countries. In pursuit of this objective the newly established ‘arm's length’ inspection units in Britain will be r…
An Exemplary Scheme? An Evaluation of the Integrated Children's System
We outline selected central results from a formative evaluation of four pilot sites in England and Wales of the Integrated Children's System (ICS) – one part of the UK's e-Government strategy. We concentrate on the aspiration of the ICS towards ‘integration’ and ‘systematization’ of services within children's services, at local and national levels. We look in turn at, the use of the ICS as a foundation for aggregate statistical profiles; the expe…
Matches and Mismatches
Journal Article Matches and Mismatches: The Contribution of Carers and Children to the Success of Foster Placements Get access Ian Sinclair, Ian Sinclair Correspondence to Professor Ian Sinclair, Social Work Research and Development Unit, University of York, York YO10 5DD. E‐mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Kate Wilson Kate Wilson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academ…
The trouble with foster care
The article draws on the first stages of a large-scale longitudinal study into foster care with 'looked after' children. It uses data supplied by 950 foster carers in response to a postal questionnaire designed to document the proportions who had experienced one or more of six potentially stressful 'events': breakdowns or disruptions, allegations, relationship with birth parents, family tensions, 'tug of love' cases, and other disagreements with …
A Child Well-Being Index at Small Area Level in England
Can the Corporate State Parent
Discussions about provision for children in the care of the state have continually raised the question, can the corporate state parent? Roger Bullock, Mark E Courtney, Roy Parker, Ian Sinclair and June Thoburn consider the question in the light of recent studies of separated children. It is argued that while the state does not need to fulfil all parenting responsibilities when care is shared with families or children are adopted, for three groups…
Can the corporate state parent
A Life More Ordinary’
Based on findings from their recent study, Ian Sinclair, Kate Wilson and Ian Gibbs discuss the criteria which foster care needs to meet if it is to fulfill the requirements of looked after children. Analysis of 150 postal questionnaires from foster children showed five main preoccupations: the care they received from their foster families; the relationship between their feelings for their foster and their birth families; their contact with and pr…
Kinship and Stranger Foster Carers
US research suggests that kinship foster carers are a valued resource but less well supported than carers who are strangers. Jennifer Sykes, Ian Sinclair, Ian Gibbs and Kate Wilson draw on data from their own large-scale study of foster carers to see if similar issues arise in England. The study suggests that kinship carers are a heterogeneous group. Some want to be treated as carers entitled to similar levels of financial reward, and in need of …
Development of a Social Climate Questionnaire for Use in Approved Schools and Community Homes
Differences between residential institutions may be greater than existing theory on the subject would have us believe. This study describes the development of a questionnaire to assess the ways boys in approved schools perceive their social environment. Considerable differences were found between schools, and it is concluded that approved school training is not a homogeneous form of treatment
The education of children in care and children in need
We seek to explain the development of the educational gap between children in “out‐of‐home care” (CLA), children deemed in social need (CIN), and other pupils. A cohort of 642,805 pupils aged 16 in 2013 was used to chart the educational progress of the full cohort, the CLA ( n = 6,236), the CIN in 2012 or 2013 but not CLA ( n = 20,384), and a sample individually matched with the CLA ( n = 11,084). At age 7, attainment of the CLA and CIN was appro…
The use of computed tomography for the study of archaeological coins
Intensive fostering
Trials and Tribulations
Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) have rarely been used in evaluations of social work interventions with children in the UK. This article discusses the use of an RCT in the national evaluation of Multi-dimensional Treatment Foster Care for Adolescents (MTFC-A) in the English care system. A number of challenges were encountered in recruiting young people to the trial. These included professional anxieties about randomisation, concerns about acco…
Intensive Fostering
Nina Biehal, Sarah Ellison and Ian Sinclair present the results of an independent evaluation of the Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care (MTFC) programme for young offenders in England, where it is known as Intensive Fostering (IF). A quasi-experimental, mixed-methods study was carried out at the three pilot sites, with a total sample of 47 at follow-up. Young people sentenced to IF were compared to a similar group, matched on the eligibility c…
Looked after Children
In a reply to the preceding article, Ian Sinclair examines the four main arguments put forward in Michael Little's challenge to current social care provision: the care system is not ethical, it is out of date and arbitrary, and too little is known about it. Furthermore, there is an alternative
Measuring the turbulence of English Children's Homes
Globalisation and Regional Renewal
Residential Care for Elderly People
Given the vulnerability of elderly people living in long-term hospitals and in other forms of institutional provision, it is essential that the quality of their care is as high as possible. This observation, moreover, has widespread relevance irrespective of variations in the structure of health and social care provision in different countries. In pursuit of this objective the newly established ‘arm's length’ inspection units in Britain will be r…
Some Procedural Aspects of Recent International Litigation
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Families, Hostels and Delinquents
MARTIN DAVIES, IAN SINCLAIR; FAMILIES, HOSTELS AND DELINQUENTS: AN ATTEMPT TO ASSESS CAUSE AND EFFECT, The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 11, Issue
A Typological and Dimensional Study of a Sample of Prisoners
IAN SINCLAIR, Ph.D., BRENDA CHAPMAN; A TYPOLOGICAL AND DIMENSIONAL STUDY OF A SAMPLE OF PRISONERS, The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 13, Issue 4
Development of a Social Climate Questionnaire for Use in Approved Schools and Community Homes
Differences between residential institutions may be greater than existing theory on the subject would have us believe. This study describes the development of a questionnaire to assess the ways boys in approved schools perceive their social environment. Considerable differences were found between schools, and it is concluded that approved school training is not a homogeneous form of treatment
Social Change and the Mental Health of Children
Diversity Within the Total Institution
Some residential institutions allow staff considerable autonomy in the day-to-day running of the organization, while others curtail this freedom by imposing strong central control. One of the important differences between these two types of organization is the degree of diversity experienced by the residents. Taking a sample of community homes for delinquent boys, this study examines diversity within their welfare and work subsystems and also wit…
Some Procedural Aspects of Recent International Litigation
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Organisational Influences on Professional Behaviour
Community schemes play an important part in a community approach to social work. This paper investigates the extent to which social workers' involvement in such schemes is influenced by personal preference or by their work setting. Data from questionnaires completed by 394 social workers/social work assistants show that the likelihood of a worker's involvement with a scheme varies with the organisation and procedures of the area office, the perce…
Residential Care for Elderly People
Given the vulnerability of elderly people living in long-term hospitals and in other forms of institutional provision, it is essential that the quality of their care is as high as possible. This observation, moreover, has widespread relevance irrespective of variations in the structure of health and social care provision in different countries. In pursuit of this objective the newly established ‘arm's length’ inspection units in Britain will be r…
Efficiency of Procedures and Working Methods
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Comparison of Statistics
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Measuring the turbulence of English Children's Homes
Staff Qualifications and Ratios in Children’s Homes
English Official reports into methods of improving the performance of children’s homes have focused on staff training, staff ratios and size. This article tests these conclusions on 48 children’s homes. It develops a measure of performance based on the social climate of a home and relates this to size, to the proportion of qualified staff, to whether the head of home was qualified and to staff ratios. The analysis supports the importance of size …
The trouble with foster care
The article draws on the first stages of a large-scale longitudinal study into foster care with 'looked after' children. It uses data supplied by 950 foster carers in response to a postal questionnaire designed to document the proportions who had experienced one or more of six potentially stressful 'events': breakdowns or disruptions, allegations, relationship with birth parents, family tensions, 'tug of love' cases, and other disagreements with …
A Life More Ordinary’
Based on findings from their recent study, Ian Sinclair, Kate Wilson and Ian Gibbs discuss the criteria which foster care needs to meet if it is to fulfill the requirements of looked after children. Analysis of 150 postal questionnaires from foster children showed five main preoccupations: the care they received from their foster families; the relationship between their feelings for their foster and their birth families; their contact with and pr…
Globalisation and Regional Renewal
Mental health in residential homes
Two linked studies assess the feasibility of involving care staff in reducing the prevalence of depression in homes for older people. Mental health training was provided for care staff, delivered by members of a Community Mental Health Team for the Elderly. The research programme used quantitative and qualitative methods to evaluate the effects of a theoretical training for care staff, a system of mentoring care staff to reinforce the training; a…
Kinship and Stranger Foster Carers
US research suggests that kinship foster carers are a valued resource but less well supported than carers who are strangers. Jennifer Sykes, Ian Sinclair, Ian Gibbs and Kate Wilson draw on data from their own large-scale study of foster carers to see if similar issues arise in England. The study suggests that kinship carers are a heterogeneous group. Some want to be treated as carers entitled to similar levels of financial reward, and in need of …
Matches and Mismatches
Journal Article Matches and Mismatches: The Contribution of Carers and Children to the Success of Foster Placements Get access Ian Sinclair, Ian Sinclair Correspondence to Professor Ian Sinclair, Social Work Research and Development Unit, University of York, York YO10 5DD. E‐mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Kate Wilson Kate Wilson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academ…
Foster Carers
Can the Corporate State Parent
Discussions about provision for children in the care of the state have continually raised the question, can the corporate state parent? Roger Bullock, Mark E Courtney, Roy Parker, Ian Sinclair and June Thoburn consider the question in the light of recent studies of separated children. It is argued that while the state does not need to fulfil all parenting responsibilities when care is shared with families or children are adopted, for three groups…
Can the corporate state parent
A Child Well-Being Index at Small Area Level in England
An Exemplary Scheme? An Evaluation of the Integrated Children's System
We outline selected central results from a formative evaluation of four pilot sites in England and Wales of the Integrated Children's System (ICS) – one part of the UK's e-Government strategy. We concentrate on the aspiration of the ICS towards ‘integration’ and ‘systematization’ of services within children's services, at local and national levels. We look in turn at, the use of the ICS as a foundation for aggregate statistical profiles; the expe…
Looked after Children
In a reply to the preceding article, Ian Sinclair examines the four main arguments put forward in Michael Little's challenge to current social care provision: the care system is not ethical, it is out of date and arbitrary, and too little is known about it. Furthermore, there is an alternative
Intensive fostering
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