Additional Information
The Hadley Trust
One of the major contemporary concerns is how best to provide stability and permanence for children whose own parents are unable to care for them consistently or predictably. Children may be cared for by relatives, foster carers or adoptive parents.
The Hadley Trust has a keen interest in improving practice in children’s social care by funding research and active dissemination of findings. Initially the Trust funded the work of the Hadley Centre at the University of Bristol (2000-2019). Funding has now transferred to the Hadley research programme based at the Rees Centre where work on understanding and improving the lives of looked after and adopted children continues.
Resources and Publications
Redirect (Compassion Fatigue in Foster Carers)
The main aim of this project was to understand more about foster carers’ experience of compassion fatigue in their care of traumatised children, and what support they found most helpful. The overall vision is to improve awareness of the presence of compassion fatigue in foster carers, and highlight the support strategies which carers find helpful to reduce
Foster Carer Payments Schedule and Fees Framework
This project in collaboration with LE (Wales) aims to produce a maintenance payment schedule and fee framework for foster carers in Wales that will inform policy development in this area funded by the Welsh Government.
More News
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Dr Marta Garcia Molsosa’s Webinar: A Review of the Extant Literature on Factors, Interventions, and Educational Outcomes of Children in CareMarch 28, 2025 -
Rees Centre’s New Kinship Report Reveals Challenges Faced by Black and Asian Kinship CarersMarch 27, 2025 -
Rees Centre welcomed Dr Calum Webb, Webinar Lunchtime Series: Does investing in prevention reduce rates of entering care?March 13, 2025 -
Latest Rees Centre research reveals proportionally fewer young people with experience of children’s social care enter and progress through higher educationMarch 6, 2025
