The Institute of Education is a college of the Federal University of London, specialising in research into all aspects of education and into education-related fields. The study is the outcome of a research project, Children's Concepts and Experience of Care in Different Household Contexts, funded by the Department of Health and conducted between 1996 and 1999 at the Thomas Coram Research Unit . It focused on children in transition between primary and secondary school because this is a time when children are renegotiating relationships with parents, making new friends and moving into new settings. The survey sample consisted of 941 children - 349 in the last year of primary school and 592 in the first year of secondary school. All had at least one sibling.
Further details are available in the study.
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