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Adoption & Fostering is a quarterly peer reviewed journal which has been at the cutting edge of debate on childcare issues for over 50 years. It is the only UK journal dedicated to adoption and fostering issues, providing an international forum for a wide range of professionals: academics and practitioners in social work, psychology, law, medicine, education...
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Exploring conduct difficulties amongst middle-aged children living in care

  • Katharine Anderson
  • Saul Hillman
  • Theodora Manolopoulou
  • Richard Cross
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Understanding how adults adopted in England pre-1989 experience parenthood

  • Tamryn Stevens
  • Mark Moss
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The Reflective Fostering Programme – Improving the wellbeing of children in care through a group intervention for foster carers: A randomised controlled trial

  • Nick Midgley
  • Karen Irvine
  • Sheila Redfern
  • Jamie Murdoch
  • Caroline Smith
  • Sarah Byford
  • David Wellsted
  • Erika Sims
  • Emily Rayfield
  • Poushali Ganguli
  • Antony Colles
  • Benita Pursch
  • Beth Rider
  • Eva Sprecher
  • Antonella Cirasola
  • Hannah Hopson
  • Arshia Choudhury
  • Shayma Izzidien
  • Rachael Stemp
  • Alay Rangel
  • Rebecca Flanagan
  • Caroline Cresswell
  • Lee Shepstone
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‘I lived for those mornings’: Parents’ experiences of visiting their children in care

  • Polly Baynes
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‘I probably wouldn’t want to talk about anything too personal’: A qualitative exploration of how issues of privacy, confidentiality and surveillance in the home impact on access and engagement with online services and spaces for care-experienced young people

  • Lorna Stabler
  • Emily Cunningham
  • Dawn Mannay
  • Maria Boffey
  • Aimee Cummings
  • Brittany Davies
  • Charlotte Wooders
  • Rachael Vaughan
  • Rhiannon Evans
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Keeping in touch: Looked after children and young people’s views on their contact arrangements

  • Julie Selwyn
  • Shirley Lewis
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Predictors of attachment in early- and late-placed adoptees

  • Saul Hillman
  • Nahed Lajmi
  • Jill Hodges
  • Jeanne Kaniuk
  • Miriam Steele
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How inclusive and representative is research on foster caring in the UK? Findings from a scoping review

  • Rachael Stemp
  • Shayma Izzidien
  • Shivani Sharma
  • Karen Irvine
  • Nick Midgley
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Special issue call for papers: Reflecting on 100 years of Adoption in England and Wales
Special Collection: A Child’s Journey Through Care
Adopting and Fostering - Editor's Choice
Special Collection of Roger Bullock's Editorials
Adopting and Fostering - The Power of Relationships

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