Female care leavers' experience of the staff-child relationship 1.0
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Female care leavers' experience of the staff-child relationship while living in an intensive support children's home in Northern Ireland.
IRAS ID
215290
Contact name
Campbell Killick
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Ulster University
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 2 months, 28 days
Research summary
Female care leavers experience of the staff-child relationship while living in an intensive support children's home in Northern Ireland.
This study seeks the views of female adults on their relationship with staff while living in Ashgrove ISCH. Their perspectives will provide valuable insight into their lives and provide evidence to staff about what looked after children and young people want, feel and need from their relationships with staff. A systematic narrative literature review ‘The impact of relationship factors between looked after children and young people and the people who look after them’ (Rice, 2016) found 3 broad themes of trust, reciprocity and continuity were important to looked after children and this will be used to inform the study.
A maximum of 20 females who have left the home since 2010 will be invited to participate in the study by Catherine Brown (deputy team leader of the home). Contact will also be made by Voices of Young People In Care (VOYPIC) staff who are still working with some of the potential participants. If the participants are still involved with social services, their field social worker will be notified.
Participants will be asked to complete a short written piece prior to interview. This will take the form of a short story asking them to describe a day in the life of their time in the home.
Interviews, no longer than 1 hour, will take place in an easily accessible location for the participants, including Health and Social Care Trust offices and Voices Of Young People In Care meeting rooms.
Participants will be invited to submit a day in the life written piece and take part in a recorded interview lasting no more than 1 hour between March and May 2017. The research findings will be submitted to UUJ in September 2017.REC name
HSC REC A
REC reference
17/NI/0037
Date of REC Opinion
3 Mar 2017
REC opinion
Unfavourable Opinion