Educational success for children in public care: advice from a group of high achievers.

Research over the past 20 years has consistently shown that children in public care fall behind at school, seldom achieve good qualifications, and are much less likely than their peers to go on to further or higher education. However, a small minority of looked-after children do well academically. T...

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Published in:Child & Family Social Work Vol. 7; no. 2; pp. 121 - 131
Main Authors: Martin PY, Jackson S
Format: research Journal Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell May2002
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