The education of looked after children
The social implications of further education
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11942346 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rupert Herd (Former Principal, Tamworth and Lichfield College, UK), Tim Legge (Retired Headteacher and governor, South Staffordshire College, UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 67-74 |
| Publication date | 2017-02-08 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Adoption & Fostering (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-5759 • E-ISSN: 1740-469X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0308575916681712 |
| OpenAlex | W2586659774 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Considerable attention is now paid to the education of looked after children in the UK, but the criteria used to judge success tend to focus on GCSE passes and university entry. The further education (FE) sector has been largely overlooked in these discussions even though it provides a wide range of non-school based courses for large numbers of disadvantaged 16–19-year-olds. Evidence from a typical college in England with 6200 students shows that a third of all older adolescents living in the area, most of them with modest academic achievements, have some connection with the college, and that around 700 of them require special mentoring. In addition, over 50 students, 70% of them female, are looked after – the same number of older teenagers as would be in the care of a medium-sized local authority. The article seeks to alert practitioners and carers to the contribution that FE can make to the welfare of older looked after children as participation in college life and the specialist help received can help mitigate some of the widely reported problems facing care leavers
Disadvantaged · Economic growth · Home education · Local authority · Medical education · Older people · Pedagogy · Political science · Social Welfare · Sociology · Welfare · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Medicine · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies · Psychology · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics · Gerontology
| Citations per year | 0.38 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2022 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |