Sonia Jackson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3797274 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sonia Jackson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sonia |
| FAMILY NAME | Jackson |
| SIGNATURE | JACKSON S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Coram |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 176 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Changes in expenditure on vaping in the context of the rise of disposable vapes and impending regulatory changes
From 2021-2023, expenditure on vaping products increased substantially among people who vape in Great Britain, particularly during the rapid rise of disposable vaping. Between 2023-2025, overall expenditure declined slightly, with large declines in subgroups with the greatest switching away from disposables, particularly young people. An impending ban on disposable vapes in 2025, which was announced in 2024, may have been responsible for people s…
Invisible children
Many thousands of very young children pass through the UK care system every year. Understandably, social workers are reluctant to separate children from their parents, and legal protections designed to prevent the separation from becoming permanent lead to constant delay in making longer-term plans. The aim is that the children should either be returned to their birth families or placed for adoption, but this is not achieved in up to 50% of cases…
Knowledge exchange, foster care and early education
All children have a right to early childhood education, but preschool‐aged fostered children are less likely than others to access formal early childhood education and care (ECEC) services such as nurseries and playgroups. The home learning environment is crucial for this group. Building on an earlier pilot study where foster carers of young children saw education as something that largely happens outside the home, this paper presents a knowledge…
Complex ‘everyday’ lives meet multiple networks
The everyday lives of young fostered children are rarely studied. Using an ethnographic approach including interviews, walks, observation and photomap making, this article reports on the findings from a unique pilot study of the social and educational lives of young foster children (aged 0‒4) in an inner London borough. The following findings are presented: (1) what foster carers do: everyday lives and education; (2) foster carers’ meanings and p…
Early Childhood Policy and Services
Foster Care in England
Education Matters
Prioritising education for children looked after away from home
The idea for this special issue of the journal arose from a cross-national research project funded under the European Union Seventh Framework Program on Youth and Social Inclusion. The five-country
Continuing educational participation among children in care in five countries
Young people who have spent all or part of their childhoods in public care are at particular risk of social exclusion as adults and yet the pathway out of exclusion identified by policy-makers at both European and national levels, namely, education, is very difficult to access. Using data from a five-country study of the post-compulsory educational pathways of young people in public care, this paper examines the rates of participation of young pe…
Leaving care
Reconnecting care and education
The Children Act 1989 ended a period of four decades during which the education of children and young people in care was almost entirely neglected. However, it was another 20 years before education took its rightful place at the centre of provision for the care of children away from home. This article considers the contribution made to this process by the Act and its accompanying Guidance, what progress has been made and what were the obstacles, …
Foster Care and Higher Education
Sonia Jackson and Sarah Ajayi report findings from the first UK study of young people in care who go to university. They suggest that foster care could play a major role in enabling more looked after children to access higher education and complete their courses successfully
Progress at Last
Children These Days
Your friends don’t understand’
This paper is based on a study of the experiences of people identified as ‘young carers’, commissioned by the National Assembly for Wales as part of a wider review of carers’ needs and services. Following a brief review of some of the previous research in this area, the paper reports key findings of the research, using the words of children and young people as much as possible. It then goes on to explore some of the wider implications of this and…
Educational success for children in public care
Research over the past 20 years has consistently shown that children in public care fall behind at school, seldom achieve good qualifications, and are much less likely than their peers to go on to further or higher education. However, a small minority of looked‐after children do well academically. This paper examines the opinions of 38 high‐achieving young people who spent at least a year in residential or foster care on what they think are the b…
Family Group Conferences
This article isa response to Lupton (1998). It is not in the tradition of a critical response, but rather a complementary and extended exploration of the issues raised in the earlier paper. It draws on the authors' respective experiences as innovator and researcher in the field of child welfare and youth justice and presents, within the overall debate, new material both from child welfare initiatives and from the recently completed study into the…
Surviving the care system
Looking After Children
Assessment and Action Records, a key component of the widely adopted Looking After Children system, have been criticized by Knight and Caveney (1998) for imposing white middle class assumptions about child development, for undermining the Children Act principle of partnership, and for blaming individuals instead of structural factors for shortcomings in care and poor outcomes. This response welcomes a critical scrutiny of the Looking After Childr…
Educational success for looked-after children
Research over the past twenty years shows that children in public care are massively disadvantaged within the education system. The scale of the problem has been highlighted by the rise in exclusions, with over a third of looked after children denied their right to education altogether. But even those who attend school regularly are unlikely to reach their educational potential unless active measures are taken to compensate for earlier disadvanta…
Policy priorities in child protection
A growing consensus among researchers and practitioners that the current emphasis on identification and investigation of child abuse may be counter‐productive has been slow to produce changes at the policy level. Using the operation of interagency Area Child Protection Committees as an example, this paper suggests that professional and managerial perception of risk of public criticism or media exposure play a significant part in determining polic…
Degrees of Involvement
Robert Sanders is Lecturer in the Department of Social Policy and Applied Social Studies at the University of Wales Swansea. He has a B.Sc. (Psychology) and an MA (Psychology) from New York, and obtained his CQSW and M.Sc. (Applied Social Studies) at the LSE. He has practised in local authority child and family work, specializing in under 5's services, child protection and children in substitute family care before entering the training and educat…
A comparison of child protection local procedures handbooks
Doctors treat patients, not populations. 'Evidence-based' practice is essential but extrapolation to the individual patient is always necessary and this fact is well illustrated by data from trials of ACE inhibitors post-myocardial infarction. In the AIRE (Acute Infarction Ramipril Efficacy) study, 2,006 patients with some evidence of heart failure, even if transient, after a myocardial infarction, were randomised to receive oral ramipril or plac…
The police role in the management of child protection services
The involvement of police in child protection services has undergone substantial changes since the mid 1970s when there was a dramatic increase in emphasis placed on interagency coordination and cooperation. However, the literature on child protection, whilst addressing issues of how agencies work together in individual cases of abuse, says very little about how the services available for abused children and their families are jointly managed. Th…
The admission of Asian patients to intensive therapy units and its implications for kidney donation
OBJECTIVE: To determine the relative admission rates of Asian and non-Asian patients to intensive therapy units (ITUs) in Coventry and to explore the implications of these rates for the transplantation of organs to Asian people. DESIGN: Examination of 1991 census data and a retrospective review of ITU admissions books. Data were collected on ethnic background, presenting diagnosis, and clinical outcome for each admission. SETTING: The three ITUs …
Educational success for children in public care
Research over the past 20 years has consistently shown that children in public care fall behind at school, seldom achieve good qualifications, and are much less likely than their peers to go on to further or higher education. However, a small minority of looked‐after children do well academically. This paper examines the opinions of 38 high‐achieving young people who spent at least a year in residential or foster care on what they think are the b…
Leaving care
Foster Care and Higher Education
Sonia Jackson and Sarah Ajayi report findings from the first UK study of young people in care who go to university. They suggest that foster care could play a major role in enabling more looked after children to access higher education and complete their courses successfully
Your friends don’t understand’
This paper is based on a study of the experiences of people identified as ‘young carers’, commissioned by the National Assembly for Wales as part of a wider review of carers’ needs and services. Following a brief review of some of the previous research in this area, the paper reports key findings of the research, using the words of children and young people as much as possible. It then goes on to explore some of the wider implications of this and…
Reconnecting care and education
The Children Act 1989 ended a period of four decades during which the education of children and young people in care was almost entirely neglected. However, it was another 20 years before education took its rightful place at the centre of provision for the care of children away from home. This article considers the contribution made to this process by the Act and its accompanying Guidance, what progress has been made and what were the obstacles, …
Progress at Last
Complex ‘everyday’ lives meet multiple networks
The everyday lives of young fostered children are rarely studied. Using an ethnographic approach including interviews, walks, observation and photomap making, this article reports on the findings from a unique pilot study of the social and educational lives of young foster children (aged 0‒4) in an inner London borough. The following findings are presented: (1) what foster carers do: everyday lives and education; (2) foster carers’ meanings and p…
Prioritising education for children looked after away from home
The idea for this special issue of the journal arose from a cross-national research project funded under the European Union Seventh Framework Program on Youth and Social Inclusion. The five-country
Continuing educational participation among children in care in five countries
Young people who have spent all or part of their childhoods in public care are at particular risk of social exclusion as adults and yet the pathway out of exclusion identified by policy-makers at both European and national levels, namely, education, is very difficult to access. Using data from a five-country study of the post-compulsory educational pathways of young people in public care, this paper examines the rates of participation of young pe…
Family Group Conferences
This article isa response to Lupton (1998). It is not in the tradition of a critical response, but rather a complementary and extended exploration of the issues raised in the earlier paper. It draws on the authors' respective experiences as innovator and researcher in the field of child welfare and youth justice and presents, within the overall debate, new material both from child welfare initiatives and from the recently completed study into the…
Educational success for looked-after children
Research over the past twenty years shows that children in public care are massively disadvantaged within the education system. The scale of the problem has been highlighted by the rise in exclusions, with over a third of looked after children denied their right to education altogether. But even those who attend school regularly are unlikely to reach their educational potential unless active measures are taken to compensate for earlier disadvanta…
The police role in the management of child protection services
The involvement of police in child protection services has undergone substantial changes since the mid 1970s when there was a dramatic increase in emphasis placed on interagency coordination and cooperation. However, the literature on child protection, whilst addressing issues of how agencies work together in individual cases of abuse, says very little about how the services available for abused children and their families are jointly managed. Th…
Education and Children in Care
Invisible children
Many thousands of very young children pass through the UK care system every year. Understandably, social workers are reluctant to separate children from their parents, and legal protections designed to prevent the separation from becoming permanent lead to constant delay in making longer-term plans. The aim is that the children should either be returned to their birth families or placed for adoption, but this is not achieved in up to 50% of cases…
A comparison of child protection local procedures handbooks
Doctors treat patients, not populations. 'Evidence-based' practice is essential but extrapolation to the individual patient is always necessary and this fact is well illustrated by data from trials of ACE inhibitors post-myocardial infarction. In the AIRE (Acute Infarction Ramipril Efficacy) study, 2,006 patients with some evidence of heart failure, even if transient, after a myocardial infarction, were randomised to receive oral ramipril or plac…
Unsatisfactory childminding
(1975). Unsatisfactory childminding: The educational implications. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 211-215
The Children Act 1975
Childminder
Residential care and education
Children in care have a poor record of achievement in school. Those in residential care face particular difficulties, arising from changes of placement, inadequate liaison between children's homes and schools, low expectations among care and school staff, and an environment in which educational needs are not given priority. The experience of one voluntary children's home suggests some ways in which these disadvantages may be overcome
Education and Children in Care
Under Fives
The value of preschool education was already well recognised 30 years ago but the UK, unlike other European countries, has never developed a coherent system of public provision for young children. Reliance on private, voluntary and self‐help facilities to fill the gaps has produced diversity but variable quality and little real choice. Over the same period attitudes and family structures have changed and there have been great advances in our unde…
Getting Priorities Right
A comparison of child protection local procedures handbooks
Doctors treat patients, not populations. 'Evidence-based' practice is essential but extrapolation to the individual patient is always necessary and this fact is well illustrated by data from trials of ACE inhibitors post-myocardial infarction. In the AIRE (Acute Infarction Ramipril Efficacy) study, 2,006 patients with some evidence of heart failure, even if transient, after a myocardial infarction, were randomised to receive oral ramipril or plac…
The police role in the management of child protection services
The involvement of police in child protection services has undergone substantial changes since the mid 1970s when there was a dramatic increase in emphasis placed on interagency coordination and cooperation. However, the literature on child protection, whilst addressing issues of how agencies work together in individual cases of abuse, says very little about how the services available for abused children and their families are jointly managed. Th…
The admission of Asian patients to intensive therapy units and its implications for kidney donation
OBJECTIVE: To determine the relative admission rates of Asian and non-Asian patients to intensive therapy units (ITUs) in Coventry and to explore the implications of these rates for the transplantation of organs to Asian people. DESIGN: Examination of 1991 census data and a retrospective review of ITU admissions books. Data were collected on ethnic background, presenting diagnosis, and clinical outcome for each admission. SETTING: The three ITUs …
Policy priorities in child protection
A growing consensus among researchers and practitioners that the current emphasis on identification and investigation of child abuse may be counter‐productive has been slow to produce changes at the policy level. Using the operation of interagency Area Child Protection Committees as an example, this paper suggests that professional and managerial perception of risk of public criticism or media exposure play a significant part in determining polic…
Degrees of Involvement
Robert Sanders is Lecturer in the Department of Social Policy and Applied Social Studies at the University of Wales Swansea. He has a B.Sc. (Psychology) and an MA (Psychology) from New York, and obtained his CQSW and M.Sc. (Applied Social Studies) at the LSE. He has practised in local authority child and family work, specializing in under 5's services, child protection and children in substitute family care before entering the training and educat…
Surviving the care system
Looking After Children
Assessment and Action Records, a key component of the widely adopted Looking After Children system, have been criticized by Knight and Caveney (1998) for imposing white middle class assumptions about child development, for undermining the Children Act principle of partnership, and for blaming individuals instead of structural factors for shortcomings in care and poor outcomes. This response welcomes a critical scrutiny of the Looking After Childr…
Educational success for looked-after children
Research over the past twenty years shows that children in public care are massively disadvantaged within the education system. The scale of the problem has been highlighted by the rise in exclusions, with over a third of looked after children denied their right to education altogether. But even those who attend school regularly are unlikely to reach their educational potential unless active measures are taken to compensate for earlier disadvanta…
Family Group Conferences
This article isa response to Lupton (1998). It is not in the tradition of a critical response, but rather a complementary and extended exploration of the issues raised in the earlier paper. It draws on the authors' respective experiences as innovator and researcher in the field of child welfare and youth justice and presents, within the overall debate, new material both from child welfare initiatives and from the recently completed study into the…
Educational success for children in public care
Research over the past 20 years has consistently shown that children in public care fall behind at school, seldom achieve good qualifications, and are much less likely than their peers to go on to further or higher education. However, a small minority of looked‐after children do well academically. This paper examines the opinions of 38 high‐achieving young people who spent at least a year in residential or foster care on what they think are the b…
Your friends don’t understand’
This paper is based on a study of the experiences of people identified as ‘young carers’, commissioned by the National Assembly for Wales as part of a wider review of carers’ needs and services. Following a brief review of some of the previous research in this area, the paper reports key findings of the research, using the words of children and young people as much as possible. It then goes on to explore some of the wider implications of this and…
Children These Days
Foster Care and Higher Education
Sonia Jackson and Sarah Ajayi report findings from the first UK study of young people in care who go to university. They suggest that foster care could play a major role in enabling more looked after children to access higher education and complete their courses successfully
Progress at Last
Reconnecting care and education
The Children Act 1989 ended a period of four decades during which the education of children and young people in care was almost entirely neglected. However, it was another 20 years before education took its rightful place at the centre of provision for the care of children away from home. This article considers the contribution made to this process by the Act and its accompanying Guidance, what progress has been made and what were the obstacles, …
Continuing educational participation among children in care in five countries
Young people who have spent all or part of their childhoods in public care are at particular risk of social exclusion as adults and yet the pathway out of exclusion identified by policy-makers at both European and national levels, namely, education, is very difficult to access. Using data from a five-country study of the post-compulsory educational pathways of young people in public care, this paper examines the rates of participation of young pe…
Leaving care
Prioritising education for children looked after away from home
The idea for this special issue of the journal arose from a cross-national research project funded under the European Union Seventh Framework Program on Youth and Social Inclusion. The five-country
Psychology (22 works) · Political science (18 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (16 works) · Medicine (15 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Nursing (9 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Social Work (7 works)