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Family Routes: exploring the needs and experiences of young people

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Family Routes: exploring the needs and experiences of young people

Department for Education · Department for Education

The report draws on interviews within 74 adoptive and special-guardianship families and examines circumstances affecting wellbeing, health and outcomes for young people aged 12–25.

Limitations: Adoption and special guardianship are both included; findings need to be separated by permanence route where possible. Government or public-body commissioned/published research concerning adoption, care or education systems. Readers may take the commissioning/publication relationship and the body’s role in those systems into account.

Research type
Longitudinal qualitative study
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Full text
Peer reviewed
No
Age group
Adolescents / Young adults
Study context and review

Age group as recorded: Adolescents; young adults

Adoption context: Adoption and special guardianship

Programme: Family Routes

Institutional context: Government / government-commissioned research

Government or public-body commissioned/published research concerning adoption, care or education systems. Readers may take the commissioning/publication relationship and the body’s role in those systems into account.

Relationship identified. Bibliographic relationships are not a bias or safety rating.

Topics: adoptee voice, England, mental health, UK research, wellbeing, young adults

Review scope: Source checked: Full text. This does not imply full-text or independent human verification.

Country as recorded: England

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