Browsing by Author "Palosaari, Lotta"

The purpose of this systematic literature review is to describe how the school and the child welfare collaboration appears in interventions that are developed to confront foster child’s educational challenges. The aim was to find out what kind of results have been reached to support children’s school achievements when the collaboration between school and child welfare was the key factor in support action. This systematic literature review was conducted as an electronic material search. The overall result from databases was 191 search results. Two English-language articles were selected from overall result according to inclusion and exclusion criteria. The electronic search was supplemented by manual search which gave one Finnish-language article to add in. The final research data became three articles. The analysis of the data was based on content analysis. According to this study, the main theme was social workers’ and school staffs’ regular meetings. Another important theme was working together as a team and working child-oriented. Strive for a good communication connection appears important in this study. According to this study collaboration interventions improve foster children’s academic and cognitive skills and some children showed improvement in their relations with teacher and their peers. According to this study the poor educational performances of foster children can be improved through systematic work. As a conclusion, interprofessional collaboration between school and child welfare can have an impact on this development.