Table Of ContentChild Well-Being
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Enhancing the Well-Being of Children and Families through Efective
Interventions
International Evidence for Practice
Edited by Colette McAuley, Peter J. Pecora and Wendy Rose
Foreword by Maria Eagle
ISBN 978 1 84310 116 1
Improving Outcomes for Children and Families
Finding and Using International Evidence
Edited by Anthony N. Maluccio, Cinzia Canali, Tiziano Vecchiato, Anita Lightburn, Jane Aldgate
and Wendy Rose
Foreword by James K. Whittaker
ISBN 978 1 84905 819 3
Child Welfare Outcomes Series
The Developing World of the Child
Edited by Jane Aldgate, David Jones, Wendy Rose and Carol Jefery
Foreword by Maria Eagle
ISBN 978 1 84310 244 1
Enhancing Social Work Management
Theory and Best Practice from the UK and USA
Edited by Jane Aldgate, Lynne Healy, Barris Malcolm, Barbara Pine, Wendy Rose and Janet Seden
ISBN 978 1 84310 515 2
The Integrated Children’s System
Enhancing Social Work and Inter-Agency Practice
Hedy Cleaver, Steve Walker, Jane Scott, Daniel Cleaver, Wendy Rose, Harriet Ward and Andy Pithouse
Foreword by Al Aynsley-Green
ISBN 978 1 84310 944 0
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2nd edition
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Foreword by David Howe
ISBN 978 1 84905 068 5
How Does Foster Care Work?
International Evidence on Outcomes
Edited by Elizabeth Fernandez and Richard P. Barth
Foreword by James K. Whittaker
ISBN 978 1 84905 812 4
Child Welfare Outcomes Series
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ISBN 978 1 84310 568 8
Child Well-Being
Understanding Children’s Lives
Edited by Colette McAuley and Wendy Rose
Foreword by Dame Gillian Pugh
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
London and Philadelphia
Figure 1.1, Box 3.1, Box 3.2 and Table 4.3 all reprinted with the permission
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Table 8.1 reprinted with permission from the Annie E. Casey Foundation
Table 8.2 reprinted with permission from the US Department of Health and Human Services
Table 8.3 reprinted with permission from Child Trends
Table 8.4, Table 8.5 and Table 8.6 are all from What Works in Family Foster Care? by Peter J. Pecora
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Child well-being : understanding children’s lives / edited by Colette
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1. Child welfare. 2. Family policy. I. McAuley, Colette. II. Rose, Wendy, 1944-
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Contents
Acknowledgements 9
Foreword 1
Preface 15
Part 1 Child Well-Being: Understanding Children’s
Lives at Home, School and in the Community 19
1. Child Well-Being, Child Development and Family Life 21
Jane Aldgate, Te Open University
2. Children’s Views on Child Well-Being 39
Colette McAuley, University College Dublin, Roger Morgan, Director
of Children’s Rights, England, and Wendy Rose, Te Open University
3. Introducing the Concept of Child Well-Being into
Government Policy 67
Wendy Rose and John Rowlands, Tomas Coram Research Unit,
Institute of Education, London
4. How Schools Can Contribute to Pupils’ Well-Being 91
Pamela Munn, University of Edinburgh
5. Youth Civic Engagement and Support: Promoting Well-Being
with the Assistance of a UNESCO Agenda 111
Pat Dolan, UNESCO Chair and Director National University of
Ireland, Galway
Part 2 Child Well-Being: International Policy and
Research Developments 127
6. Developing Indicators for Child Well-Being in a Changing
Context 129
Asher Ben-Arieh, Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social
Welfare, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
7. National Reporting on Child Well-Being: Te State of the
Nation’s Children Reports in the Republic of Ireland 143
Anne-Marie Brooks, Sinéad Hanafn and Sylda Langford, Ofce
of the Minister for Children, Dublin
8. Te Challenge of Improving Children’s Well-Being and
Measuring Outcomes: An American Perspective 161
Peter J. Pecora, Casey Family Programs and School of Social Work,
University of Washington, Seattle, and Markell Harrison-Jackson,
Special Education Specialist, Pinal County Education Service Agency
9. Te Subjective Well-Being of Children 181
Jonathan Bradshaw, Professor of Social Policy, University of York,
Gwyther Rees, Director of Research, Children’s Society, Antonia
Keung, Research Fellow, Department of Social Policy and Social Work,
University of York, and Haridhan Goswami, Research Ofcer,
Children’s Society
Part 3 Child Well-Being: Looking Towards the Future 205
10. Child Well-Being: Current Issues and Future Directions 207
Colette McAuley and Wendy Rose
References 219
List of Contributors 241
Subject Index 245
Author Index 249
List of fgures, tables and boxes
Figures
Figure 1.1 Te Getting It Right for Every Child well-being indicators 34
Figure 5.1 Conceptual model connecting social-civic engagement, social
support, resilience and well-being in youth 121
Figure 9.1 Subjective well-being of 11–15-year-old young people from
the 1994/5–2007/8 British Household Panel Survey 184
Figure 9.2 Children who report high life satisfaction in 2001–2 and
2005–6 (HBSC) 185
Figure 9.3 Subjective well-being by accumulation of problems 193
Tables
Table 3.1 Outcomes framework for children and young people (England) 76
Table 4.1 Examples of targeted interventions to promote well-being 101
Table 4.2 Pilot quantitative and qualitative well-being indicators 107
Table 4.3 Quality indicators used in inspections in Scotland from
January 2008 108
Table 5.1 UNICEF indicators of well-being matched to aspects of social
support and civic-engagement activities 122
Table 8.1 Key indicators of the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s
KIDS COUNT 162
Table 8.2 National Child and Family Services Review standards for child
welfare: Non-systemic standards 168
Table 8.3 Selected characteristics of child well-being indicators with
special attention to placement prevention programs 169
Table 8.4 Mental-health functioning: Rates for lifetime symptoms,
symptoms in the past 12 months and lifetime recovery of the northwest
foster care alumni 171
Table 8.5 Physical health functioning of the northwest foster care alumni
ages 20–33 173
Table 8.6 Educational outcomes for northwest alumni and comparison
groups 174
Table 9.1 Questions set from the British Household Panel Survey
measuring subjective well-being 183
Table 9.2 Correlation matrix of subjective well-being scales 189
Table 9.3 Regression of subjective well-being against individual and
family characteristics 191
Table 9.4 Factor analysis of relationship indicators 196
Table 9.5 Factor analysis of self indicators 197
Table 9.6 Factor analysis of freedom indicators 198
Table 9.7 Factor analysis of living environment indicators 199
Table 9.8 Factor analysis of safety indicators 200
Table 9.9 Correlation between overall subjective well-being and domains
and components of well-being 201
Table 9.10 Regression of the overall subjective well-being against all the
well-being components 201
Boxes
Box 3.1 Every Child Maters 81
Box 3.2 Te Welsh Assembly Government’s seven core aims for children
and young people 86
