The Hadley Centre for Adoption and Foster Care Studies

Research output

Research output per year 2000 2006 2009 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2017 2025

• 90 Article (Academic Journal)
• 38 Commissioned report
• 18 Conference Contribution (Conference Proceeding)
• 17 Authored book
• 36 More
  • 13 Chapter in a book
  • 7 Other report
  • 7 Other contribution
  • 2 Special issue (Academic Journal)
  • 1 Edited book
  • 1 Chapter in a report
  • 1 Conference Paper
  • 1 Book/Film/Article review (Academic Journal)
  • 1 Comment/debate (Academic Journal)
  • 1 Review article (Academic Journal)
  • 1 Web publication/site

Research output per year

Research output per year

Search results

• 2025

  Dimensions of Trust and Tension in Discharge Proceedings

  Stone, B., Staines, J., Roy, J. & Macdonald, G. S., 10 Feb 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: British Journal of Social Work. 20 p., bcaf008.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

  • UK 100%
  • Focus Group 100%
  • Courts 50%
  • Re-Traumatization 50%
  • Social Workers 50%

• Mental health in context: An exploration of individual, contextual and relational factors associated with the mental health of children and young people growing up in State care

  Wijedasa, D. N., Yoon, Y., Schmits, F. J. E., Harding, S. K. & Hahn, R., 1 Mar 2025, In: Children and Youth Services Review. 170, 13 p., 108108.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Mental Health 100%
  • Regression Analysis 14%
  • Hierarchical Regression 14%
• 2024

  Discharging care orders in England and Wales: a new typology of applications and outcomes

  Roy, J., Staines, J., Stone, B. & Macdonald, G. S., 28 May 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: British Journal of Social Work. 54, 7, p. 3096-3115 20 p., bcae081.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • UK 100%
  • State Intervention 100%
  • Focus Group 16%
  1 Citation (Scopus)

  13 Downloads (Pure)

• Factors influencing the outcomes of discharge of care order proceedings: an examination of national data, children’s e-records and professional interviews

  Staines, J., Stone, B., Roy, J. & Macdonald, G. S., 1 Nov 2024, In: Child and Family Social Work. 29, 4, p. 1034-1043 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Administrative Data 100%
  • Influencing Factor 100%
  • UK 100%
  • Professional Practice 100%
  • Justice 100%
  2 Citations (Scopus)

• Power in the courtroom: Judicial perspectives on care‐experienced girls and women in court

  Fitzpatrick, C., Hunter, K., Staines, J. & Shaw, J., 26 Nov 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Howard Journal of Crime and Justice. 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Courts 100%
  • Semistructured Interview 100%
  • Justice 33%
  • Procedural Justice 33%

• The Exploitation of Girls in Care: An Ongoing Struggle for Recognition

  Shaw, J., Staines, J., Fitzpatrick, C. & Hunter, K., 18 Jun 2024, In: Child Abuse Review. 33, 3, p. 1-9 9 p., e2886.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

  • UK 100%
  • Criminal Justice System 100%
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• ‘Is it a positive or a negative?’: Children’s participation in discharge of care order proceedings

  Roy, J., Staines, J. & Stone, B., 11 Oct 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: European Journal of Social Work. 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Justice 100%
  • Qualitative Interview 100%
  • Children's Rights 100%
  • Focus Group 100%
  • Wellbeing 100%
• 2023

  A Difficult Balance: Challenges and Possibilities for Local Protocols to Reduce Unnecessary Criminalisation of Children in Care and Care Leavers

  Hunter, K., Fitzpatrick, C., Staines, J. & Shaw, J., 9 Mar 2023, In: Youth Justice. 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Department for Education 100%
  3 Citations (Scopus)

• Confronting intergenerational harm: Care experience, motherhood and criminal justice involvement

  Fitzpatrick, C., Hunter, K., Shaw, J. & Staines, J., 10 Jul 2023, In: British Journal of Criminology. 18 p., azad028.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Criminal Justice System 100%
  • Knowledge Gap 100%
  • System of Care 100%
  • Foster Care 100%
  • Home Care 100%
  4 Citations (Scopus)

• ‘We need to tackle their wellbeing first’: Understanding and Supporting Care-experienced Girls in the Youth Justice System

  Staines, J., Fitzpatrick, C., Shaw, J. & Hunter, K., 13 Aug 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Youth Justice.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Wellbeing 100%
  • Overrepresentation 50%
  • Youth Offending Team 50%
  5 Citations (Scopus)
• 2022

  Painful Lives: Understanding Self-Harm Amongst Care-Experienced Women in Prison

  Fitzpatrick, C., Hunter, K., Shaw, J. & Staines, J. C., 17 Jan 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Criminology and Criminal Justice. p. 1-18

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Attention 100%
  5 Citations (Scopus)

  130 Downloads (Pure)
• 2020

  “I wish someone would explain why I am in care”: the impact of children and young people’s lack of understanding of why they are in out-of-home care on their well-being and felt security.

  Staines, J. C. & Selwyn, J., 1 Aug 2020, In: Child and Family Social Work. 25, 51, p. 97-106 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Home Care 100%
  • Felt Security 100%
  • Emotions 50%
  • Number of Children 50%
  • Identity Development 50%
  23 Citations (Scopus)

  365 Downloads (Pure)
• 2019

  Early life adversity, contact with children's social care services and educational outcomes at age 16 years: UK birth cohort study with linkage to national administrative records

  Teyhan, A., Boyd, A., Wijedasa, D. & MacLeod, J., 7 Oct 2019, In: BMJ Open. 9, 10, 9 p., e030213.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • UK 100%
  • Longitudinal Analysis 100%
  • Longitudinal Study 100%
  • Social Services 40%
  • Social Position 20%
  10 Citations (Scopus)

  294 Downloads (Pure)

• Nurturing attachments parenting program: The relationship between adopters’ parental reflective functioning and perception of their children's difficulties

  Staines, J., Golding, K. & Selwyn, J., 1 Jun 2019, In: Developmental Child Welfare. 1, 2, p. 143-158 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Self-Efficacy 100%
  • Conduct Disorder 50%
  • Emotional Distress 50%
  • Quantitative Study 50%
  • Injury 50%
  21 Citations (Scopus)

  1529 Downloads (Pure)

• Sibling Relationships in Adoptive Families that Disrupted or Were in Crisis

  Selwyn, J., 1 Feb 2019, In: Research on Social Work Practice. 29, 2, p. 165-175 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • UK 100%
  • Adoptive Family 100%
  • Needs Assessment 100%
  • In-Depth Interview 25%
  • Secondary Analysis 25%
  21 Citations (Scopus)

  2091 Downloads (Pure)

• Storying special objects: Material culture, narrative identity and life story work for children in care

  Watson, D., Hahn, R. & Staines, J., 19 May 2019, In: Qualitative Social Work. 18 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • UK 100%
  • Material Culture 100%
  • Narrative 100%
  • Life Stories 100%
  • Narrative Identity 100%
  18 Citations (Scopus)

  698 Downloads (Pure)
• 2018

  Adopted children's co-production and use of "trove" (a digitally enhanced memory box) to better understand their care histories through precious objects

  Watson, D., Lancaster, B. & Meineck, C., 1 Oct 2018, In: Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 23, 4, p. 614-628 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Engage-ment 100%
  • Tag 100%
  • memento 100%
  • Attachment 100%
  • Electronics 100%
  15 Citations (Scopus)

  916 Downloads (Pure)

• Adoption Breakdown: Concept, Research and Implications

  Palacios, J., Rolock, N., Selwyn, J. & Barbosa-Duchane, M., 26 Jun 2018, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Research on Social Work Practice. 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Knowledge 100%
  • Child 100%
  • Parent 100%
  79 Citations (Scopus)

  2097 Downloads (Pure)

• Adult psychosocial outcomes of men and women who were looked-after or adopted as children: prospective observational study

  Teyhan, A., Wijedasa, D. & Macleod, J., Feb 2018, In: BMJ Open. 8, 2, 12 p., e019095.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Social Support 100%
  • Patellofemoral Prosthesis 50%
  • Gender Difference 50%
  • Disease 50%
  • Mental Health 50%
  25 Citations (Scopus)

  582 Downloads (Pure)

• Interventions that enhance health services for parents and infants to improve child development and social and emotional well-being in high-income countries: a systematic review

  Hurt, L., Paranjothy, S., Lucas, P. J., Watson, D., Mann, M., Griffiths, L. J., Ginja, S., Paljarvi, T., Williams, J., Bellis, M. A. & Lingam, R., 8 Feb 2018, In: BMJ Open. 8, 2, 20 p., e014899.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Systematic Review 100%
  • Child Development 100%
  • Emotional Well-Being 100%
  • Health Service 100%
  • Language Development 50%
  30 Citations (Scopus)

  423 Downloads (Pure)

• The attitudes of medical professionals toward children and children at risk of separation from parents in Eastern Europe

  Shelton, K. H., Haddock, G. & Ottaway, H., 1 Apr 2018, In: Children and Youth Services Review. 87, p. 26-33 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Eastern Europe 100%
  • Parents 59%
  347 Downloads (Pure)

• The support needs and experiences of newly formed adoptive families: findings from the Wales Adoption Study

  Meakings, S., Ottaway, H., Coffey, A., Palmer, C., Doughty, J. & Shelton, K., 1 Mar 2018, In: Adoption and Fostering. 42, 1, p. 58-75 18 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • UK 100%
  • Adoption Studies 100%
  • Adoptive Family 100%
  • Mixed Methods 50%
  • Developmental Stages 50%
  20 Citations (Scopus)

  467 Downloads (Pure)
• 2017

  Examining rates and risk factors for post-order adoption disruption in England and Wales through survival analyses

  Wijedasa, D. & Selwyn, J., Dec 2017, In: Children and Youth Services Review. 83, p. 179-189 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Duration Analysis 100%
  • Risk Factor 100%
  • UK 100%
  • National Surveys 50%
  • Adopted Child 8%
  20 Citations (Scopus)

  578 Downloads (Pure)

• Looked after children and young people in England: developing measures of subjective well-being

  Selwyn, J., Wood, M. J. E. & Newman, T. J., 1 Jun 2017, In: Child Indicators Research. 10, 2, p. 363-380 18 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Subjective Well-Being 100%
  • Focus Group 50%
  • Neglect 50%
  • Maltreatment 50%
  • Wellbeing 50%
  38 Citations (Scopus)

  2238 Downloads (Pure)

• Looked after children and young people's views on what matters to their subjective well-being

  Wood , M. & Selwyn, J., Mar 2017, In: Adoption and Fostering. 41, 1, p. 20-34 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Subjective Well-Being 100%
  • Population 100%
  • Focus Group 66%
  45 Citations (Scopus)

  1424 Downloads (Pure)

• The adoption of looked after maltreated children in England: challenges, opportunities and outcomes

  Selwyn, J., 1 Dec 2017, In: Developing Practice: The Child, Youth and Family Work Journal.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Toddlers 100%
  836 Downloads (Pure)

• ‘People like me don’t have much of a chance in life’: comparing the locus of control of young people in foster care with that of adoptees, children from disadvantaged backgrounds and children in the general population

  Wijedasa, D., 16 Mar 2017, In: Adoption and Fostering. 41, 1, p. 5-19 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Locus of Control 100%
  • Foster Care 100%
  • Longitudinal Study 40%
  • Principal Component Analysis 20%
  6 Citations (Scopus)

  618 Downloads (Pure)
• 2016

  Adolescent to parent violence in adoptive families

  Selwyn, J. & Meakings, S., 1 Jul 2016, In: British Journal of Social Work. 46, 5, p. 1224-1240 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Adolescence 100%
  • Child Protection 14%
  • Shame 14%
  • Adoption Studies 14%
  • Parental Behavior 14%
  41 Citations (Scopus)

  248 Downloads (Pure)

• Factors affecting adoption in Wales: Predictors of variation in time between entry to care and adoptive placement

  Anthony, R., Meakings, S., Doughty, J., Ottaway, H., Holland, S. & Shelton, K. H., Aug 2016, In: Children and Youth Services Review. 67, p. 184-190 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • time 100%
  15 Citations (Scopus)

• ‘She was a foster mother who said she didn’t give cuddles’: The adverse early foster care experiences of children who later struggled with adoptive family life

  Meakings, S. J. & Selwyn, J., Oct 2016, In: Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. 21, 4, p. 509–519 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Foster Care 100%
  • Family 100%
  • Adoptive Family 100%
  • Family Life 100%
  • UK 50%
  12 Citations (Scopus)

  4130 Downloads (Pure)
• 2015

  Adopted children and young people’s views on their life storybooks: The role of narrative in the formation of identities

  Watson, D. L., Latter, S. & Bellew, R., Nov 2015, In: Children and Youth Services Review. 58, p. 90-98 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Narrative 100%
  • Adopted Child 100%
  • storybook 100%
  • UK 66%
  • England 50%
  32 Citations (Scopus)

  2988 Downloads (Pure)

• Adopters’ views on their children’s life story books

  Watson, D., Latter, S. & Bellew, R., Jul 2015, In: Adoption and Fostering. 39, 2, p. 119-134 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Academic Literature 100%
  • Positive Experience 100%
  • Telephone Interview 100%
  • Life Stories 100%
  • UK 100%
  37 Citations (Scopus)

  927 Downloads (Pure)

• Developing the confidence and competence of newly qualified child and family social workers in England: Outcomes of a National Programme: outcomes of a national programme

  Carpenter, J. S. W., Shardlow, S., Patsios, D. & Wood, M. J. E., Jan 2015, In: British Journal of Social Work. 45, 1, p. 153-176 24 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • UK 100%
  • Self-Efficacy 100%
  • Family Social Worker 100%
  • Job Satisfaction 100%
  • Role Conflict 33%
  67 Citations (Scopus)

• Hope and Fears: Teenage Mothers' Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence

  Wood, M. & Barter, C., 2015, In: Children and society. 29, p. 558-568

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Intimate Partner Violence 100%
  • Adolescence 100%
  16 Citations (Scopus)

• Images across Europe: The sending and receiving of sexual images and associations with interpersonal violence in young people's relationships

  Wood, M., Barter, C., Stanley, N., Aghtaie, N. & Larkins, C., 2015, In: Children and Youth Services Review.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  92 Citations (Scopus)

• 'She just didn't smell right!': Odour and adoptive family life

  Selwyn, J. & Meakings, S. J., Dec 2015, In: Adoption and Fostering. 39, 4, p. 294-302 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Family Life 100%
  • Injury 50%
  • Child Parent Relation 50%
  1 Citation (Scopus)

  1268 Downloads (Pure)
• 2014

  Adoption, special guardianship and residence orders: a comparison of disruption rates

  Selwyn, J. & Masson, J. M., Dec 2014, In: Family Law Journal. 44, p. 1709-1714 6 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

• Challenging the developmental reductionism of ‘profound and multiple learning disabilities’ through academic innovation

  Simmons, B. & Watson, D. L., 2014, In: PMLD Link. 26, 3, p. 25-27 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal)

  Open Access

  File

  • Learning Disability 100%
  • Social Interaction 100%
  364 Downloads (Pure)

• Examining Whiteness in a Children’s Centre

  Clarke, V. C. E. & Watson, D. L., 15 Jan 2014, In: Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood. 15, 1, p. 69-80 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

  File
  7 Citations (Scopus)

  791 Downloads (Pure)

• Kinship care in the UK: using census data to estimate the extent of formal and informal care by relatives

  Selwyn, J. & Nandy, S., Feb 2014, In: Child and Family Social Work. 19, 1, p. 44-54 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • UK 100%
  • Population Censuses 100%
  • Population 25%
  45 Citations (Scopus)

• The role of ‘embeddedness’ in the delivery of integrated children's services

  Watson, D. L., Cameron, A. M. & Aghtaie, N., Dec 2014, In: Children and Youth Services Review. 47 Part 3, p. 370-377 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Children's Services 100%
  • Embeddedness 100%
  • Self-Efficacy 33%
  • Communities 33%
  • English 33%
  3 Citations (Scopus)

  711 Downloads (Pure)

• We need to learn how to become critically creative

  Watson, D. L., Kiilakoski, T. & Suurpää, L., 2014, (Accepted/In press) In: Finnish Journal of Youth Research ('Nuorisotutkimus'). 32, 3

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal)
• 2013

  'Other children say you're not normal because you don't live with your parents'. Children's Views of Living with Informal Kinship Carers: social networks, stigma and attachment to carers

  Farmer, E., Selwyn, J. & Meakings, S. J., 2013, (Accepted/In press) In: Child and Family Social Work.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

• Pond life that 'know their place': exploring teaching and learning support assistants experiences through positioning theory

  Watson, D. L. & Bayliss, P.D., Pratchett, G., 2013, In: International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. 26, 1, p. 100-117 18 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
  17 Citations (Scopus)

• The implementation of restorative approaches in a secure child care centre

  Staines, J. C., Dec 2013, In: Restorative Justice: An International Journal. 1, 3, p. 362-388 26 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Personnel 100%
  • Child Care 100%
  • Tension 50%
  • Justice 25%
  • Management Approach 25%
• 2012

  Developmental screening in context: adaptation and standardization of the Denver Developmental Screening Test-II (DDST-II) for Sri Lankan children

  Wijedasa, D. N., Nov 2012, In: Child: Care, Health and Development. 38, 6, p. 889-899 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Denver Developmental Screening Test 100%
  • Developmental Screening 100%
  • Sisters 100%
  • Nutrition Policy 100%
  • Developmental Delay 100%
  21 Citations (Scopus)

  1173 Downloads (Pure)

• Fostered children’s behavioural and emotional difficulties: findings from one independent foster care agency’

  Staines, J. C., Nov 2012, In: Clinica y Salud. p. 205-219 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire 100%
  • Foster Care 100%

• Kinship Care and Poverty: Using Census Data to Examine the Extent and Nature of Kinship Care in the UK

  Nandy, S. & Selwyn, J., 2012, In: British Journal of Social Work. p. 1-18 18 p., doi: 10.1093/bjsw/bcs057.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • UK 100%
  • Population Censuses 100%
  35 Citations (Scopus)

• Sibling kinship carers in England: evidence from the 2001 UK Population Census

  Selwyn, J. & Nandy, S., Jan 2012, In: Children and Youth Services Review. 34, p. 194 - 199 5 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • UK 100%
  • Population 100%
  • Kinship Care 100%
  • Number of Children 75%
  14 Citations (Scopus)

• The Reunification of Looked After Children with their Parents: What Contributes to Stability?

  Farmer, E. R. G. & Wijedasa, D. N., 2012, In: British Journal of Social Work.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
  48 Citations (Scopus)