• Exploring trauma-informed foster care as a framework to support collaborative social worker - foster carer relationships 

  Lotty, Maria (Social Care Ireland, 2021-04)

  Developing consistent collaborative working relationships between foster carers and social workers are important as they impact fostering stability and thus, the outcomes of children in foster care. This paper suggests a ...
• The rights of the child in voluntary care in Ireland: a call for reform in law, policy and practice 

  Brennan, Rebekah; O'Mahony, Conor; Burns, Kenneth (Elsevier, 2021-03-15)

  Voluntary care agreements form a significant part of child protection systems in many jurisdictions. From a children’s rights perspective, they enjoy numerous advantages over court-ordered removals of children. However, ...
• ‘Private Family Arrangements’ for children in Ireland: The informal grey space in-between state care and the family home 

  Burns, Kenneth; O'Mahony, Conor; Brennan, Rebekah (Oxford University Press, 2021-02-22)

  The literature on alternative care focuses overwhelmingly on formal, court-ordered placements; voluntary care placements are discussed less frequently. Least attention of all has been given to informal kinship care placements, ...
• Trauma-informed care research: Implications for foster care practice 

  Lotty, Maria (CYC-Net Press, 2020)

  The current status of the effectiveness of trauma-informed interventions for foster carers can be described as an emergent body of knowledge. This paper examines the implications of trauma-informed care research recently ...
• How our generosity for charities exposes the failure of state 

  Whelan, Joe (Raidió Teilifís Éireann, 2020-12-15)

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