Department of Education

Hadley Programme- Foster Care

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.

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.

Research Team

Principal Investigator

Julie Selwyn

Professor of Education and Adoption
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Hadley Programme- Foster Care

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