Literature Review on the Outcomes for Survivors of Child Maltreatment in Residential Care or Birth Families
Authors: Carr, A.; Duff, H. and Craddock, F.
Professor Carr has provided the Inquiry with a Report, a Literature Review on the outcomes for survivors of child maltreatment in residential care or birth families.
The Report summarises relevant academic literature in three areas:
- Life outcomes for individuals who experienced child maltreatment while living with their birth families.
- The issue of ‘structural neglect’ in care institutions which care for large groups of children where those institutions had inadequate and unstable staffing and limited physical resources.
- Life outcomes for individuals who were abused as children while in long-term residential care.
Professor Carr’s Report identified relevant, high-quality, peer-reviewed literature on these subjects, particularly prior systematic reviews and meta-analyses. The material has been systematically assessed to ensure that only relevant work of suitable quality is included.