TY - JOUR T1 - Mental health of infants in foster care JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood JO - Arch Dis Child SP - 113 LP - 113 DO - 10.1136/archdischild-2014-307086 VL - 100 IS - 1 AU - Rachel Pritchett AU - William McKinnon AU - Christopher Gillberg AU - Helen Minnis Y1 - 2015/01/01 UR - http://adc.bmj.com/content/100/1/113.1.abstract N2 - It is now well established that children in foster care are at increased risks of experiencing mental health problems, for example, Ford et al 1 described findings from 1453 looked after and accommodated children in a sample of over 10 000 children aged 5–15 years and found that 46.4% of the accommodated children received a diagnosis compared with 8.5% of the general population. Our team2 conducted a systematic review examining the way child characteristics affected child outcomes from care and found that, of the studies which found an effect of age on outcome, three-quarters found more positive outcomes, in terms of finding a permanent placement, for children who entered care at … ER -