Mental Wellbeing Needs and Support for Care‐Experienced Children and Young People in Secondary School and During the Transition to Further Education College

Mental Wellbeing Needs and Support for Care‐Experienced Children and Young People in Secondary School and During the Transition to Further Education College

Sarah MacDonald, Gillian Hewitt, Siôn Jones, Alyson Rees, Rachel Brown, Rebecca Anthony, Rhiannon Evans · Children & Society

Qualitative research in four Welsh local authorities examined mental wellbeing support in secondary schools and further education. Consultations included 22 young people, 17 parents/carers and 23 practitioners; case-study interviews added learners, carers and staff. Findings described transition-related needs, low awareness of adoptee needs and barriers including being singled out and limited staff capacity.

Limitations: Fostering, kinship care, residential care and adoption were combined; the abstract provides no adoptee-only sample or results. Young people supplied direct evidence, alongside carers and professionals. These accounts do not establish intervention effectiveness. The university repository identifies funding from Health and Care Research Wales. This funding relationship is recorded without asserting that a service provider directed findings.

Research type

Qualitative consultation and case studies

Source reviewed

Abstract

Peer reviewed

Yes

Age group

Adolescents / Adults