Sibling relationships in care
Iriss Outline
Provides an overview of the literature on how to best support the relationships of siblings in care.
Published in
on 16 Jan 2023
Foster carer recruitment
Research on better recruitment for a better fostering experience
Presents a model for organisations to use to recruit foster carers.
Published in
on 10 Mar 2022
A model of fostering recruitment
Dr Dorothy Neriah describes and proposes a model for recruiting foster carers.
Published in
on 10 Mar 2022
Children in care and their use of mobile devices and the internet for contact
Insight 53
Examines the growing body of evidence that points to known categories of risk around internet usage by children and young people in care.
Published in
on 3 Jun 2020
Rethinking foster carer recruitment
A guest article by Dorothy Neriah, a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh.
Published in
on 26 Nov 2019
Post-Adoption Central Support
PACS is a small charitable organisation based in Stirling that comprises parents, social workers and other professionals involved in adoption and long-term foster care. It offers a range of post placement support and services to adoptive families and permanent foster carers.
PACS receives a grant from Clackmannan, Falkirk and Stirling Councils to provide its services.
Services it offers include:
Published in
on 27 Apr 2016
Dan Hughes on trauma, early child development and attachment
Dan Hughes is a leading authority on dyadic developmental psychotherapy and has integrated recent research on the neurobiology of trauma, early child development and attachment.
During one of his many trips to Scotland as a guest of Scottish Attachment in Action, Iriss was pleased to video record Dan explaining how the brain reacts to trauma and how an understanding of this process is helpful to foster and adoptive parents as well professionals such as residential care workers and teachers.
Published in
on 11 Feb 2016
Food for Thought
The routines and rituals that surround food - shopping, preparing, cooking, serving, cleaning up - are important parts of our lives, yet often we fail to recognise their symbolic or hidden meanings.
Published in
on 10 Dec 2013
Children, food and care
Insight 22
Reviews the evidence about how food practices affect children in different care settings, drawing heavily from the experience of children in foster and residential care.
Published in
on 6 Nov 2013
Commissioning foster care services in Falkirk Council: a Public Social Partnership approach
Report summary
This report is about a Public Social Partnership (PSP) pilot in Falkirk, which focused on foster care services. Public Social Partnerships (PSP) are an innovative model of public service delivery, which is based upon the public sector and third sector working together to design and deliver public services.
Published in
on 13 Mar 2013
