Born into Care: infants who become looked after in Scotland

Project Dates

September 2019 - July 2020

Funder

ESRC Impact Acceleration Account at Lancaster university.

Project Summary

The main objectives of this project are:

• to bring together key academic, policy, analytic and practice partners in relation to the issue of infants becoming looked after in Scotland, strengthening existing relationships
• to share learning from work done by the Centre on newborns entering care proceedings in England and Wales, and from the ‘Permanently Progressing?’ project
• to discuss implications of the research findings for policy and practice in Scotland
• to explore commonalities and differences between legal systems, and between the availability, scope and structure of the administrative data
• to discuss the opportunities for future collaborative work.

Contact us

For further details contact Linda Cusworth: l.cusworth@lancaster.ac.uk

Key Partners: Scottish Government, University of Stirling, and Adoption and Fostering Alliance (Scotland). 

The project is also supported by the ESRC-funded Administrative Data Research (ADR) partnership.