SCIE/NICE recommendations on looked after children: Promoting the quality of life of looked-after children and young people

Related SCIE and NICE publications and guidance

SCIE publications

• Experiences of children and young people caring for a parent with a mental health problem. Research briefing 24 (2008).
• Working with challenging and disruptive situations in residential child care: sharing effective practice (PDF) Knowledge review 22 (2008).
• Fostering guide 7 (2004).
• Preventing teenage pregnancy in looked after children. Research briefing 9 (2004).
• Promoting resilience in fostered children and young people. Resource guide 6 (2004).
• Working with families with alcohol, drug and mental health problems (2003).

Centre for Excellence and Outcomes in Children’s Services (C4EO)

SCIE is a consortium partner in C4EO

• Vulnerable children: knowledge review 1. Improving educational outcomes for looked after children (2010).
• Vulnerable children: knowledge review 2. Improving the emotional and behavioural health of looked after children and young people (2010).
• Vulnerable children: knowledge review 3. Increasing the numbers of care leavers in ‘safe settled accommodation’ (2010).

NICE published guidance

• Contraceptive services for socially disadvantaged young people. NICE public health guidance 29 (2010).
• Alcohol-use disorders – preventing harmful drinking. NICE public health guidance 24 (2010).
• Borderline personality disorder. NICE clinical guideline 78 (2009).
• Antisocial personality disorder. NICE clinical guideline 77 (2009). (Includes recommendations about multisystemic therapy, multidimensional treatment foster care and family therapy and may be of relevance to some looked-after children and young people.)
• Reducing differences in the uptake of immunisations. NICE public health guidance 21 (2009).
• Social and emotional wellbeing in secondary education. NICE public health guidance 20 (2009).
• When to suspect child maltreatment. NICE clinical guideline 89 (2009).
• Obsessive–compulsive disorder and body dysmorphic disorder. NICE clinical guideline 31 (2005).
• Schizophrenia (update). NICE clinical guideline 82 (2009).
• Social and emotional wellbeing in primary education. NICE public health guidance 12 (2008).
• Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. NICE clinical guideline 72 (2008).
• Behaviour change. NICE public health guidance 6 (2007).
• Interventions to reduce substance misuse among vulnerable young people. NICE public health guidance 4 (2007).
• Prevention of sexually transmitted infections and under 18 conceptions. NICE public health guidance 3 (2007).
• Drug misuse: psychosocial interventions. NICE clinical guideline 51 (2007).
• Drug misuse: opioid detoxification. NICE clinical guideline 52 (2007).
• Parent-training/education programmes in the management of children with conduct disorders. NICE technology appraisal 102 (2006). (This intervention is also recommended for carers and may be of relevance to some looked-after children.)
• Obesity. NICE clinical guideline 43 (2006).
• Depression in children and young people. NICE clinical guideline 28 (2005).
• Violence. NICE clinical guideline 25 (2005).
• Self-harm. NICE clinical guideline 16 (2004).
• Eating disorders. NICE clinical guideline 9 (2004).

NICE guidance in development

• Personal, social and health education focusing on sex and relationships and alcohol education. NICE public health guidance (publication expected January 2011)
• Autism spectrum disorders in children and young people. NICE clinical guideline (publication expected September 2011)