Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care Vol 18 No 2

This issue comprises articles submitted in response to a call for submissions to celebrate the 20th anniversary conference of the Scottish Institute of Residential Child Care (SIRCC). The issue includes a poem by social worker and poet, Charlie Gracie, the key note address given by Professor Jim Anglin, and articles reflecting on child and youth care practice in several countries.

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Editorial

Name	Authors
Editorial	Graham Connelly

Poem

Name	Authors
Three things about growing fruit	Charlie Gracie

Keynote from SIRCC Conference

Name	Authors
‘A Review Like No Other’: Putting love at the heart of the care system	James P. Anglin

Commentary, reflections and other articles

Name	Authors
Closer to children and families: Benefits and costs of improvements to children’s residential care in Slovakia	Lucia Hargašová
Life story approaches and relationships within residential child care: A practice reflection	Elaine Hamilton
Residential childcare in Ghana: Analysing current trends and drivers	Kwabena Frimpong-Manso, Antoine Deliege, Theresa Wilson and Yvonne Norman
Representations of ‘family’ in residential care: Perspectives from residential care staff in Zimbabwe	Getrude Dadirai Gwenzi
Why we decided to transition from residential to family-based care	Laura Horvath, Mohamed Nabieu and Melody Curtiss
National Confidential Forum: Reflections on participant experiences	Martin J. McKee
Learning from lived experience in government care: Sharing gains in knowledge and practice in youth participation with key care stakeholders	Jade Purtell, Luke Westwick, Brittany Witnish, Jarrad Butcher, Annie [Withheld], Ralph Salera and Jenna Bollinger
Reaching beyond or beyond reach: Challenges influencing access to higher education for care-experienced learners in Scotland	Peter Tormey
MCR Pathways’ relationship based practice at scale: Revolutionising educational outcomes for care-experienced young people	Iain MacRitchie
Studying ‘deinstitutionalisation’ outcomes in Cape Town: How it all happened	Juliane Petersen
Adoption today: A consideration of adoption within the Scottish care and permanence system, and the challenges faced by children and families	Fiona Aitken