Items where Author is "Neil, Elsbeth"

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Schofield, Gillian, Larsson, Birgit, Neil, Elsbeth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498 and Young, Julie (2024) Making decisions about long-term foster family care as a permanence plan in England: An investigation of the implementation of the first government regulations and guidance for long-term foster care. Adoption and Fostering. ISSN 0308-5759 (In Press)

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Neil, Elsbeth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498 (2024) Maintaining children’s birth family relationships in adoption? A theory of change. Family Law, May 2024. pp. 575-582.

Neil, Elsbeth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498, Rimmer, Julia, Rawcliffe, Cassian and Copson, Ruth (2024) Evaluation of the Letter Swap Pilot: Briefing. Centre for Research on Children and Families, UEA.

Neil, Elsbeth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498, Rimmer, Julia, Rawcliffe, Cassian and Copson, Ruth (2024) Evaluation of the Letter Swap Pilot: Final Report. Centre for Research on Children and Families, UEA.

Neil, Elsbeth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498, Rimmer, Julia and Sirbu, Irina (2023) How do adopted adults see the significance of adoption and being a parent in their life stories? A narrative analysis of 40 life story interviews with male and female adoptees. Children and Youth Services Review, 155. ISSN 0190-7409

Hammond, Simon P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0473-3610, Mickleburgh, Ella, Duddy, Claire, Hiller, Rachel, Neil, Elsbeth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498, Blackett, Rosie, Williams, Kevin, Wilson, Jon and Wong, Geoff (2023) Improving the mental health and mental health support available to adolescents in out-of-home care via Adolescent-Focused Low-Intensity Life Story Work: A realist review. BMJ Open, 13 (10). ISSN 2044-6055

Murphy, Anne, Neil, Elsbeth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498, North, Joanna and Oates, David (2022) Seeking connections: how adoption agencies respond to requests from intermediary agencies to support reunions between adopted adults and their birth families:Centre for Research on Children & Families Research Briefing. Centre for Research on Children and Families, UEA, Norwich.

Larsson, Birgit, Schofield, Gillian, Neil, Elsbeth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498, Young, Julie, Morciano, Marcello and Lau, Yiu-Shing (2022) Planning and supporting permanence in long-term foster care:An investigation of the implementation in England of the first regulations and guidance for long-term foster care (Department for Education 2015). Centre for Research on Children and Families, UEA.

Hammond, Simon P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0473-3610, Duddy, Claire, Mickleburgh, Ella, Hiller, Rachel, Neil, Elsbeth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498, Williams, Kevin, Rodgers, Luke, Wilson, Jon and Wong, Geoff (2022) Improving the mental health and mental health support available to adolescents with social care-experience via low-intensity life story work: A realist review protocol. BMJ Open, 12 (3). ISSN 2044-6055

Copson, Ruth, Murphy, Anne, Cook, Laura ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9882-2365, Neil, Elsbeth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498 and Sorensen, Pernille (2022) Relationship-based practice and digital technology in child and family social work: Learning from practice during the COVID-19 pandemic. Developmental Child Welfare, 4 (1). pp. 3-19. ISSN 2516-1032

Larsson, Birgit, Schofield, Gillian, Neil, Elsbeth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498, Young, Julie, Morciano, Marcello and Lau, Yiu-Shing (2022) The right decisions for children in long-term foster care. Children and Young People Now, February (2022). pp. 31-32. ISSN 1755-8093

Larsson, Birgit, Neil, Elsbeth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498, Morciano, Marcello and Lau, Yiu-Shing (2022) Reunification as a permanency route for children in care: Reunion stability and educational outcomes:Research briefing. Centre for Research on Children and Families, UEA.

Larsson, Birgit, Schofield, Gillian, Neil, Elsbeth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498, Morciano, Marcello and Lau, Yiu-Shing (2021) Planning and supporting permanence in long-term foster care:An investigation of the implementation in England of the first regulations and guidance for long-term foster care as a permanence option (Department for Education 2015). Nuffield Foundation.

Beek, Mary, Neil, Elsbeth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498 and Schofield, Gillian (2021) Moving to Adoption:Using the UEA model to help children move from foster care to adoption. Coram BAAF. ISBN 9781913384104

Neil, Elsbeth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498, Gitsels, Lisanne and Thoburn, June (2020) Returning children home from care: What can be learned from local authority data? Child & Family Social Work, 25 (3). pp. 548-556. ISSN 1356-7500

Neil, Elsbeth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498, Copson, Ruth and Sorensen, Penny (2020) Contact during lockdown: How are children and their birth families keeping in touch?:Main report. Nuffield Family Justice Observatory.

Neil, Elsbeth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498, Copson, Ruth and Sorensen, Penny (2020) Contact during lockdown: How are children and their birth families keeping in touch?:Briefing paper. Nuffield Family Justice Observatory.

Neil, Elsbeth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498, Beek, Mary and Schofield, Gillian (2020) Key principles for foster carers and adopters who are helping a child to move to adoption. Centre for Research on Children and Families, UEA.

Beek, Mary and Neil, Elsbeth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498 (2020) Respecting children's relationships and identities in adoption. In: The Routledge Handbook of Adoption. Routledge, Abingdon and New York, pp. 76-89. ISBN 978-1-138-36250-5

Neil, Elsbeth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498, Morciano, Marcello, Young, Julie and Hartley, Louise (2020) Exploring links between early adversities and later outcomes for children adopted from care: Implications for planning post adoption support. Developmental Child Welfare, 2 (1). pp. 52-71. ISSN 2516-1032

Neil, Elsbeth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498, Gitsels, Lisanne and Thoburn, June (2019) Children in care: Where do children entering care at different ages end up? An analysis of local authority administrative data. Children and Youth Services Review, 106. ISSN 0190-7409

Neil, Elsbeth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498, Beek, Mary and Schofield, Gillian (2018) Moving to adoption: a practice development project:Research Briefing. Research Briefings . Centre for Research on Children and Families, UEA.

Collings, Susan, Neil, Elsbeth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498 and Conley Wright, Amy (2018) Practices to improve communication between birth parents and permanent families. Advances in Social Work & Welfare Education, 20 (2). pp. 144-150. ISSN 1329-0584

Neil, Elsbeth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498 (2018) Rethinking adoption and birth family contact: Is there a role for the law? Family Law, 2018 (September). pp. 1178-1182.

Neil, Elsbeth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498, Young, Julie and Hartley, Louise (2018) The Joys and Challenges of Adoptive Family Life:A Survey of Adoptive Parents in the Yorkshire and Humberside Region. Centre for Research on Children and Families, UEA, Norwich.

Dance, Cherilyn, Neil, Elsbeth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498 and Rogers, Ruth (2017) Inter-agency Adoption and the Government’s Subsidy of the Inter-Agency Fee. Department for Education. ISBN 978-1-78105-747-6

Neil, Elsbeth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498 (2017) Helping birth parents in adoption. A literature review of birth parent support services, including supporting post adoption contact::An expertise for the German Research Center on Adoption (EFZA). Deutsches Jugendinstitut.

Cossar, Jeanette and Neil, Elsbeth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498 (2015) Service user involvement in social work research: Learning from an adoption research project. British Journal of Social Work, 45 (1). pp. 225-240. ISSN 0045-3102

Neil, Elsbeth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498, Beek, Mary and Ward, Emma ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7579-3215 (2015) Contact after Adoption:A longitudinal study of post adoption contact arrangements. Coram BAAF, London. ISBN ISBN 978 1 910039 33 5

Neil, Beth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498, Beek, Mary and Ward, Emma ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7579-3215 (2014) Contact after Adoption: A longitudinal study of adopted young people and their adoptive parents and birth relatives. BAAF. ISBN 9781910039137

Neil, Beth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498, Beek, Mary and Ward, Emma ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7579-3215 (2013) Contact after adoption::a follow-up in late adolescence. Centre for Research on Children and Families, UEA, Norwich.

Clifton, John and Neil, Elsbeth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498 (2013) Success factors in adopter recruitment: Insights from adoption agency social work managers and marketing officers. Centre for Research on Children and Families, UEA, Norwich.

Neil, Elsbeth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498 (2013) The mental distress of the birth relatives of adopted children: 'disease' or 'unease'? Findings from a UK study. Health and Social Care in the Community, 21 (2). pp. 191-199. ISSN 1365-2524

Cossar, Jeanette and Neil, Elsbeth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498 (2013) Making sense of siblings: connections and severances in post-adoption contact. Child and Family Social Work, 18 (1). pp. 67-76. ISSN 1365-2206

Neil, Elsbeth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498 (2012) Making sense of adoption: integration and differentiation from the perspective of adopted children in middle childhood. Children and Youth Services Review, 34. pp. 409-416. ISSN 0190-7409

Neil, Elsbeth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498, Cossar, Jeanette, Jones, Christine, Lorgelly, Paula and Young, Julie (2011) Supporting direct contact after adoption. Adoption Research Initiative (ARI) . BAAF, London. ISBN 978-1-907585-05-0

Cossar, Jeanette and Neil, Elsbeth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498 (2010) Supporting the birth relatives of adopted children: How accessible are services? British Journal of Social Work, 40 (5). 1368–1386. ISSN 0045-3102

Neil, E ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498, Cossar, J, Lorgelly, P and Young, J (2010) Helping Birth Families: Services, costs and outcomes. British Association of Adoption and Fostering, London.

Neil, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498 (2010) The benefits and challenges of direct post-adoption contact: perspectives from adoptive parents and birth relatives. Aloma, 27. pp. 89-115.

Neil, E. C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498 (2009) Post-adoption contact and openness in adoptive parents' minds: Consequences for children's development. British Journal of Social Work, 39 (1). pp. 5-23. ISSN 0045-3102

Neil, E ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498 (2009) The corresponding experiences of adoptive parents and birth relatives in open adoptions. In: International advances in adoption research for practice. Wiley, Chichester.

Neil, E ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498 and Wrobel, G (2009) International advances in adoption research for practice. Wiley, Chichester.

Wrobel, G and Neil, E ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498 (2009) Connecting research to practice. In: International advances in adoption research for practice. Wiley, Chichester.

Young, J and Neil, E ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498 (2009) Contact after adoption. In: The Child Placement Handbook: Research, Policy and Practice. BAAF, London.

Neil, E ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498 (2008) Guest Editorial. Adoption Quarterly, 10 (3/4). pp. 1-2. ISSN 1544-452X

Neil, Elsbeth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498 (2008) Supporting post adoption contact for children adopted from care: A study of social workers' attitudes. Adoption Quarterly, 10 (3/4). pp. 3-28. ISSN 1544-452X

Neil, E. C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498 (2007) Coming to terms with the loss of a child: the feelings of birth parents and grandparents about adoption and post-adoption contact. Adoption Quarterly, 10 (1). pp. 1-23. ISSN 1092-6755

Neil, E ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498 (2006) Contact with adult birth relatives after adoption: a longitudinal study of children aged under 4 at placement. Working Paper. Nuffield Foundation.

Neil, E ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498 (2006) Het verlies van een kind accepteren. Hoe de biologische familie contact na de adoptie ervaat (Accepting the loss of a child to adoption: birth relatives' views of post adoption contact). The Adoption Magazine, 9 (2). pp. 15-16.

Howe, D and Neil, E ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498 (2004) Conclusions: a transactional model for thinking about contact. In: Contact in Adoption and Permanent Foster Care. Wiley, London, pp. 224-254.

Howe, D and Neil, E ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498 (2004) Introduction. In: Contact in Adoption and Permanent Foster Care. Wiley, London, pp. 1-6.

Neil, E ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498 (2004) The "Contact after adoption" Study: indirect contact and adotive parents' communication about adoption. In: Contact in Adoption and Permanent Foster Care: Research, theory and practice. BAAF, London.

Neil, E ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498 (2004) The "Contact after adoption" Study: face-to-face contact. In: Contact in Adoption and Permanent Foster Care: Research, Theory and Practice. BAAF, London, pp. 65-84.

Neil, E ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498 (2004) Contact after Adoption: A research review. In: Children and their families: Contacts, rights and welfare. Hart Publishing.

Young, J and Neil, E ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498 (2004) The 'Contact after Adoption' study: The perspective of Birth Relatives after non-voluntary Adoption. In: Contact in Adoption and Permanent Foster Care: Research, Theory and Practice. British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering, London.

Neil, E ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498 (2003) Accepting the reality of adoption: birth relative's experiences of face-to-face contact. Adoption and Fostering, 27 (2). pp. 32-43. ISSN 1740-469X

Neil, Elsbeth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498 (2003) Understanding other people's perspectives: tasks for adopters in open adoptions. Adoption Quarterly, 6 (3). pp. 3-30. ISSN 1544-452X

Neil, Elsbeth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498, Beek, Mary and Schofield, Gillian (2003) Thinking about and managing contact in permanent placements: the differences and similarities between adoptive parents and foster carers. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 8 (3). pp. 401-418. ISSN 1461-7021

Neil, E ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498 (2002) Managing face-to-face contact for young adopted children. In: Staying Connected: Making Contact Arrangements in Adoption. BAAF, London.

Neil, E. C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498 (2002) Contact after adoption: The role of agencies in making and supporting plans. Adoption and Fostering, 26 (1). pp. 25-38. ISSN 0308-5759

Neil, E ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498 and Sellick, C (2001) A description and evaluation of a social work training programme in Moldova. Social Work Education, 20 (5). pp. 577-592. ISSN 0261-5479

Neil, E ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498 (2000) The reasons why young children are placed for adoption: Findings from a recently placed sample and implications for future identity issues. Child and Family Social Work, 5 (4). 303–316. ISSN 1365-2206

Neil, E ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498 (1999) The sibling relationships of adopted children and patterns of contact after adoption. In: We are family: Sibling relationships in placement and beyond. BAAF, London.