Harriet Ward
Biographic Data
| ID | 3957274 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harriet Ward |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harriet |
| FAMILY NAME | Ward |
| SIGNATURE | WARD H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loughborough University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2769-8184 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 92 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Transitions to adulthood from care in late 19th century England
Since the mid‐19th century, there have been concerns in England about suboptimal outcomes for care leavers. This paper draws on original data from case files of children who were admitted to the Children's Society between 1887 and 1894, and a contemporary study of outcomes for girls who had been brought up in Poor Law district schools, to explore the basis for these concerns. Widespread destitution in the community meant that many children in car…
Previous life experiences and the vulnerability of children adopted from out-of-home care
Cumulative jeopardy when children are at risk of significant harm
Cumulative jeopardy
Calculating and comparing the costs of multidimensional treatment foster care in English local authorities
Continuities and discontinuities
Improving outcomes for children and young people in care
Patterns of instability
Calculating the costs of local authority care for children with contrasting needs
Activity data from practitioners can be combined with financial data to develop unit costs for the eight processes that underpin social work activity for children looked after away from home. The frequency and duration of processes can then be calculated, and the data are used to cost different pathways through care. Costs vary according to children's needs, types of placements and local policies and practices. Combinations of need add to costs. …
The Best of Times, the Worst of Times’
There is much evidence of instability in the care system and poor developmental outcomes for looked after children, but looked after children are far from being a homogenous group. Their lives, needs and experiences vary immensely. Harriet Ward, Tricia Skuse and Emily R Munro present the findings from a recent study of children's views of the care system in England (Skuse and Ward, 2003). They explore what children and young people did and did no…
Working with managers to improve services
The setting of specific objectives for children's services and the identification of key outcome indicators, together with the development of a core information specification for children's services with its practical application in the implementation of the Integrated Children's System, all mean that substantially more data are now available to child welfare agencies. Not so long ago in the UK it was the role of research teams to collect and ana…
Approaches to Needs Assessment in Children's Services
Issues concerning the Health of Looked after Children
There is substantial evidence that looked after children have extensive health needs and disabilities, that they have often missed out on routine health surveillance and health promotion before entry to care or accommodation, but that at present they receive little compensatory care. Harriet Ward, Helen Jones, Margaret Lynch and Tricia Skuse discuss these issues. They look at how frequent changes of placement and poor inter-agency communication e…
Performance targets and stability of placements for children long looked after away from home
There are concerns that the performance indicators for children's services may not be adequately interpreted and used to improve service delivery for individual children. Data from a longitudinal study of 249 looked after children demonstrate that one target—improving the stability of placements—is more likely to be met if agencies can identify which children move frequently and why. While age, behavioural difficulties and the absence of mental h…
Parental responsibilities and the Children Act 1948
Finding an appropriate balance between the public responsibilities of the state and the private responsibilities of parents to promote and safeguard children's welfare is a perennial issue. Section One of the Children Act I948 marks an important point in this debate; in giving statutory authori-ties a duty to receive children into their care as a voluntary measure, it allowed them to undertake and to regulate interventions that had previously bee…
Using a child development model to assess the outcomes of social work interventions with families
The Children Act 1989 strengthens the view that the purpose of providing children's welfare services is to support families in promoting their satisfactory development. Implementation of the Looking After Children materials provides data that enables us to assess how far such aims are achieved both for individual children and for groups. Concrete information in each of the key areas of need, threshold, objective, service and progress across seven…
Using a child development model to assess the outcomes of social work interventions with families
The Children Act 1989 strengthens the view that the purpose of providing children's welfare services is to support families in promoting their satisfactory development. Implementation of the Looking After Children materials provides data that enables us to assess how far such aims are achieved both for individual children and for groups. Concrete information in each of the key areas of need, threshold, objective, service and progress across seven…
Continuities and discontinuities
Patterns of instability
The Best of Times, the Worst of Times’
There is much evidence of instability in the care system and poor developmental outcomes for looked after children, but looked after children are far from being a homogenous group. Their lives, needs and experiences vary immensely. Harriet Ward, Tricia Skuse and Emily R Munro present the findings from a recent study of children's views of the care system in England (Skuse and Ward, 2003). They explore what children and young people did and did no…
Issues concerning the Health of Looked after Children
There is substantial evidence that looked after children have extensive health needs and disabilities, that they have often missed out on routine health surveillance and health promotion before entry to care or accommodation, but that at present they receive little compensatory care. Harriet Ward, Helen Jones, Margaret Lynch and Tricia Skuse discuss these issues. They look at how frequent changes of placement and poor inter-agency communication e…
Calculating the costs of local authority care for children with contrasting needs
Activity data from practitioners can be combined with financial data to develop unit costs for the eight processes that underpin social work activity for children looked after away from home. The frequency and duration of processes can then be calculated, and the data are used to cost different pathways through care. Costs vary according to children's needs, types of placements and local policies and practices. Combinations of need add to costs. …
Previous life experiences and the vulnerability of children adopted from out-of-home care
Approaches to Needs Assessment in Children's Services
Working with managers to improve services
The setting of specific objectives for children's services and the identification of key outcome indicators, together with the development of a core information specification for children's services with its practical application in the implementation of the Integrated Children's System, all mean that substantially more data are now available to child welfare agencies. Not so long ago in the UK it was the role of research teams to collect and ana…
Cumulative jeopardy
Transitions to adulthood from care in late 19th century England
Since the mid‐19th century, there have been concerns in England about suboptimal outcomes for care leavers. This paper draws on original data from case files of children who were admitted to the Children's Society between 1887 and 1894, and a contemporary study of outcomes for girls who had been brought up in Poor Law district schools, to explore the basis for these concerns. Widespread destitution in the community meant that many children in car…
Cumulative jeopardy when children are at risk of significant harm
Calculating and comparing the costs of multidimensional treatment foster care in English local authorities
Improving outcomes for children and young people in care
Using a child development model to assess the outcomes of social work interventions with families
The Children Act 1989 strengthens the view that the purpose of providing children's welfare services is to support families in promoting their satisfactory development. Implementation of the Looking After Children materials provides data that enables us to assess how far such aims are achieved both for individual children and for groups. Concrete information in each of the key areas of need, threshold, objective, service and progress across seven…
Using a child development model to assess the outcomes of social work interventions with families
The Children Act 1989 strengthens the view that the purpose of providing children's welfare services is to support families in promoting their satisfactory development. Implementation of the Looking After Children materials provides data that enables us to assess how far such aims are achieved both for individual children and for groups. Concrete information in each of the key areas of need, threshold, objective, service and progress across seven…
Parental responsibilities and the Children Act 1948
Finding an appropriate balance between the public responsibilities of the state and the private responsibilities of parents to promote and safeguard children's welfare is a perennial issue. Section One of the Children Act I948 marks an important point in this debate; in giving statutory authori-ties a duty to receive children into their care as a voluntary measure, it allowed them to undertake and to regulate interventions that had previously bee…
Performance targets and stability of placements for children long looked after away from home
There are concerns that the performance indicators for children's services may not be adequately interpreted and used to improve service delivery for individual children. Data from a longitudinal study of 249 looked after children demonstrate that one target—improving the stability of placements—is more likely to be met if agencies can identify which children move frequently and why. While age, behavioural difficulties and the absence of mental h…
Issues concerning the Health of Looked after Children
There is substantial evidence that looked after children have extensive health needs and disabilities, that they have often missed out on routine health surveillance and health promotion before entry to care or accommodation, but that at present they receive little compensatory care. Harriet Ward, Helen Jones, Margaret Lynch and Tricia Skuse discuss these issues. They look at how frequent changes of placement and poor inter-agency communication e…
Approaches to Needs Assessment in Children's Services
Working with managers to improve services
The setting of specific objectives for children's services and the identification of key outcome indicators, together with the development of a core information specification for children's services with its practical application in the implementation of the Integrated Children's System, all mean that substantially more data are now available to child welfare agencies. Not so long ago in the UK it was the role of research teams to collect and ana…
The Best of Times, the Worst of Times’
There is much evidence of instability in the care system and poor developmental outcomes for looked after children, but looked after children are far from being a homogenous group. Their lives, needs and experiences vary immensely. Harriet Ward, Tricia Skuse and Emily R Munro present the findings from a recent study of children's views of the care system in England (Skuse and Ward, 2003). They explore what children and young people did and did no…
Calculating the costs of local authority care for children with contrasting needs
Activity data from practitioners can be combined with financial data to develop unit costs for the eight processes that underpin social work activity for children looked after away from home. The frequency and duration of processes can then be calculated, and the data are used to cost different pathways through care. Costs vary according to children's needs, types of placements and local policies and practices. Combinations of need add to costs. …
Improving outcomes for children and young people in care
Patterns of instability
Continuities and discontinuities
Calculating and comparing the costs of multidimensional treatment foster care in English local authorities
Cumulative jeopardy
Cumulative jeopardy when children are at risk of significant harm
Previous life experiences and the vulnerability of children adopted from out-of-home care
Transitions to adulthood from care in late 19th century England
Since the mid‐19th century, there have been concerns in England about suboptimal outcomes for care leavers. This paper draws on original data from case files of children who were admitted to the Children's Society between 1887 and 1894, and a contemporary study of outcomes for girls who had been brought up in Poor Law district schools, to explore the basis for these concerns. Widespread destitution in the community meant that many children in car…
Psychology (15 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (13 works) · Medicine (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Nursing (10 works) · Business (8 works) · Developmental psychology (8 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Computer Science (5 works)