Greg Kelly
Biographic Data
| ID | 6463352 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Greg Kelly |
| GIVEN NAMES | Greg |
| FAMILY NAME | Kelly |
| SIGNATURE | KELLY G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University Belfast |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7458-4406 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
In need of review
The impact of Sensory Processing Difficulties across a range of Special Educational Needs is well researched. More recently, the impact on children’s mental health and well‐being, linked with anxiety, depression and self‐injurious behaviours, have redirected international research to consider the holistic benefits of sensory provision, for those with special educational provision and the wider classroom population. A SMART SURVEY was designed to …
Home on a care order
Compared to children in other placements, there is much less known about the characteristics and needs of children in the UK who are returned to their birth parents with a care order still in place. That is in spite of evidence to suggest they face more difficulties than young people in other placements. Based on a 2009 census of looked after children in Northern Ireland, just under 10% ( n = 193) were found to be living at home under a care orde…
Young children returning home from care
While a wide range of literature exists on the experiences of children in foster care or adoption, much less is known about children who return home from care to their birth parents. This paper focuses on the perspectives of a small sample of birth parents of young children who returned home from care. It draws on findings from the Northern Ireland Care Pathways and Outcomes Study that has been following a population ( n = 374) of children who we…
Who Goes Where
This is one of a series of articles reporting on the large-scale Northern Ireland care pathways and outcomes study (McSherry et al, 2008). The study has been examining a population of young children (n = 374) who were in care under five years of age in Northern Ireland and followed up across a four-year period (2000–2004). It has mapped these young children's care careers and explored factors relating to five care pathways that these children pro…
Permanence Planning in Northern Ireland
Greg Kelly, Priscilla Haslett, Jacqueline O'Hare and Karen McDowell discuss a permanence planning project in a Northern Ireland Health and Social Services Trust. The project recruited and trained dual (foster care/adoption) approved carers and placed children with them before the children were freed for adoption. The carers who were recruited in the first year of the project (1999) are described, as are the early outcomes of the placements. All t…
Adoption from care in Northern Ireland
This is a study of the processes for freeing children for adoption in Northern Ireland. The focus was the time taken from admission to care to adoption order. The findings confirmed that the process is dogged by delay at each stage. In total the average time from the child becoming looked after to the granting of an adoption order was 4.5 years. Most of the time taken was in the stages for which social services had lead responsibility, principall…
Freeing Order Processes in Northern Ireland
Greg Kelly and Dominic McSherry describe the timescales involved in achieving freeing orders for 23 children in Northern Ireland between 1996 and 1999. There was delay at all stages in the process. The delays were particularly pronounced in social services and social services/legal services processes. The authors conclude that if adoption is to be made available to more children from state care, current arrangements, including legislation, will n…
Freeing for Adoption in Northern Ireland
The freeing order is a United Kingdom procedure that enables the court to vest parental rights in an adoption agency. This permits the placement of the child for adoption, with legal security, in advance of the adoption order. Objective To review the operation of the freeing order procedure in Northern Ireland. Method A study of social workers’ reports in the first 50 freeing cases of one Health and Social Services Board. Results The procedure is…
Placing Risk in the Balance
The Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 a New Era for Fostering and Adoption Services
The introduction of the Children (Northern Ireland) Order marks the province's first major change in child care legislation for almost 30 years. Greg Kelly and Joan Coulter broadly welcome the Order and the positive impact it will have on a child care service too long dominated by child protection issues. They focus in particular on the influence it will have on fostering and adoption services, already affected by widespread organisational change…
Foster Parents and Long‐Term Placements
This article draws on the findings of a recent Northern Ireland Study on planned long‐term foster care placements which it sets in both an all Ireland and a UK context. The article focuses on the aspirations and experiences of what the study found to be a very traditional group of foster parents. The article also identifies and discusses the implications of this type of foster carer for the development of the service
Family Contact
Young children returning home from care
While a wide range of literature exists on the experiences of children in foster care or adoption, much less is known about children who return home from care to their birth parents. This paper focuses on the perspectives of a small sample of birth parents of young children who returned home from care. It draws on findings from the Northern Ireland Care Pathways and Outcomes Study that has been following a population ( n = 374) of children who we…
Who Goes Where
This is one of a series of articles reporting on the large-scale Northern Ireland care pathways and outcomes study (McSherry et al, 2008). The study has been examining a population of young children (n = 374) who were in care under five years of age in Northern Ireland and followed up across a four-year period (2000–2004). It has mapped these young children's care careers and explored factors relating to five care pathways that these children pro…
Permanence Planning in Northern Ireland
Greg Kelly, Priscilla Haslett, Jacqueline O'Hare and Karen McDowell discuss a permanence planning project in a Northern Ireland Health and Social Services Trust. The project recruited and trained dual (foster care/adoption) approved carers and placed children with them before the children were freed for adoption. The carers who were recruited in the first year of the project (1999) are described, as are the early outcomes of the placements. All t…
The Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 a New Era for Fostering and Adoption Services
The introduction of the Children (Northern Ireland) Order marks the province's first major change in child care legislation for almost 30 years. Greg Kelly and Joan Coulter broadly welcome the Order and the positive impact it will have on a child care service too long dominated by child protection issues. They focus in particular on the influence it will have on fostering and adoption services, already affected by widespread organisational change…
Home on a care order
Compared to children in other placements, there is much less known about the characteristics and needs of children in the UK who are returned to their birth parents with a care order still in place. That is in spite of evidence to suggest they face more difficulties than young people in other placements. Based on a 2009 census of looked after children in Northern Ireland, just under 10% ( n = 193) were found to be living at home under a care orde…
Adoption from care in Northern Ireland
This is a study of the processes for freeing children for adoption in Northern Ireland. The focus was the time taken from admission to care to adoption order. The findings confirmed that the process is dogged by delay at each stage. In total the average time from the child becoming looked after to the granting of an adoption order was 4.5 years. Most of the time taken was in the stages for which social services had lead responsibility, principall…
Freeing Order Processes in Northern Ireland
Greg Kelly and Dominic McSherry describe the timescales involved in achieving freeing orders for 23 children in Northern Ireland between 1996 and 1999. There was delay at all stages in the process. The delays were particularly pronounced in social services and social services/legal services processes. The authors conclude that if adoption is to be made available to more children from state care, current arrangements, including legislation, will n…
Freeing for Adoption in Northern Ireland
The freeing order is a United Kingdom procedure that enables the court to vest parental rights in an adoption agency. This permits the placement of the child for adoption, with legal security, in advance of the adoption order. Objective To review the operation of the freeing order procedure in Northern Ireland. Method A study of social workers’ reports in the first 50 freeing cases of one Health and Social Services Board. Results The procedure is…
Family Contact
Family Contact
Foster Parents and Long‐Term Placements
This article draws on the findings of a recent Northern Ireland Study on planned long‐term foster care placements which it sets in both an all Ireland and a UK context. The article focuses on the aspirations and experiences of what the study found to be a very traditional group of foster parents. The article also identifies and discusses the implications of this type of foster carer for the development of the service
The Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 a New Era for Fostering and Adoption Services
The introduction of the Children (Northern Ireland) Order marks the province's first major change in child care legislation for almost 30 years. Greg Kelly and Joan Coulter broadly welcome the Order and the positive impact it will have on a child care service too long dominated by child protection issues. They focus in particular on the influence it will have on fostering and adoption services, already affected by widespread organisational change…
Placing Risk in the Balance
Freeing for Adoption in Northern Ireland
The freeing order is a United Kingdom procedure that enables the court to vest parental rights in an adoption agency. This permits the placement of the child for adoption, with legal security, in advance of the adoption order. Objective To review the operation of the freeing order procedure in Northern Ireland. Method A study of social workers’ reports in the first 50 freeing cases of one Health and Social Services Board. Results The procedure is…
Freeing Order Processes in Northern Ireland
Greg Kelly and Dominic McSherry describe the timescales involved in achieving freeing orders for 23 children in Northern Ireland between 1996 and 1999. There was delay at all stages in the process. The delays were particularly pronounced in social services and social services/legal services processes. The authors conclude that if adoption is to be made available to more children from state care, current arrangements, including legislation, will n…
Adoption from care in Northern Ireland
This is a study of the processes for freeing children for adoption in Northern Ireland. The focus was the time taken from admission to care to adoption order. The findings confirmed that the process is dogged by delay at each stage. In total the average time from the child becoming looked after to the granting of an adoption order was 4.5 years. Most of the time taken was in the stages for which social services had lead responsibility, principall…
Permanence Planning in Northern Ireland
Greg Kelly, Priscilla Haslett, Jacqueline O'Hare and Karen McDowell discuss a permanence planning project in a Northern Ireland Health and Social Services Trust. The project recruited and trained dual (foster care/adoption) approved carers and placed children with them before the children were freed for adoption. The carers who were recruited in the first year of the project (1999) are described, as are the early outcomes of the placements. All t…
Young children returning home from care
While a wide range of literature exists on the experiences of children in foster care or adoption, much less is known about children who return home from care to their birth parents. This paper focuses on the perspectives of a small sample of birth parents of young children who returned home from care. It draws on findings from the Northern Ireland Care Pathways and Outcomes Study that has been following a population ( n = 374) of children who we…
Who Goes Where
This is one of a series of articles reporting on the large-scale Northern Ireland care pathways and outcomes study (McSherry et al, 2008). The study has been examining a population of young children (n = 374) who were in care under five years of age in Northern Ireland and followed up across a four-year period (2000–2004). It has mapped these young children's care careers and explored factors relating to five care pathways that these children pro…
Home on a care order
Compared to children in other placements, there is much less known about the characteristics and needs of children in the UK who are returned to their birth parents with a care order still in place. That is in spite of evidence to suggest they face more difficulties than young people in other placements. Based on a 2009 census of looked after children in Northern Ireland, just under 10% ( n = 193) were found to be living at home under a care orde…
In need of review
The impact of Sensory Processing Difficulties across a range of Special Educational Needs is well researched. More recently, the impact on children’s mental health and well‐being, linked with anxiety, depression and self‐injurious behaviours, have redirected international research to consider the holistic benefits of sensory provision, for those with special educational provision and the wider classroom population. A SMART SURVEY was designed to …
Medicine (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Nursing (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (8 works) · Northern ireland (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (5 works) · Geography (5 works)