Attentive to learning? Supporting social workers’ monitoring of learning skills in children placed in foster care

Charlotte Bredahl Jacobsen, Cecilie Koustrup and Nina Madsen Sjö

Children and Youth Services Review, 2024, vol. 162, issue C

Abstract: There is a high and increasing awareness in the Nordic countries of the disadvantaged educational positions of children placed in out-of-home care. Accompanied by a political quest for solutions, this has had an impact on social workers’ responsibilities, widening their primary focus on wellbeing to include learning. However, social workers in Denmark do not have a strong tradition of monitoring learning for children placed in out-of-home care, nor are they trained in methods of assessing educational performance.

Keywords: Foster care; Screening; Academic skills; Learning; Social work; Intervention (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.107690

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