The National Approach model places a duty on Children’s Services staff to ensure all children and young people who became looked after… Read More
Workshop report: The ‘Case of Ethics’, using creative methods for ethical research practice
The workshop began with two group activities. The first exploring what participants already knew about ethics in research, by considering what things are essential for an ethical encounter… Read More
Are care leavers really more likely to go to prison than university?
For those of you who don’t like a long read, the short answer is that nobody actually knows for sure, but that it looks somewhere between unlikely and very unlikely… Read More
Collaboration, Creativity and Complexities: Conference Blog
Collaboration, Creativity and Complexities: Developing networks and practices of co-production with children and young people. The Manchester Centre for Youth Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University. June 2019. Though the potential of employing co-productive techniques with children and young people is increasingly recognised in research and practice, conferences focusing on academic and practice innovation in this specific… Read More
Meaningful participation of children and young people in decisions about their care
This presentation considers what we mean by children’s participation, feedbacks findings from research with children and professionals,
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#FromYoungPeopleForYoungPeople
We worked to develop a video from young people for young people. The group we worked with meet weekly and offers care experienced young people the opportunity to visit the university and take part in activities aimed at raising educational aspirations and their awareness of university life. The activities include workshops in science, history and… Read More
Counting fathers in – how can social workers build better relationships with fathers involved in child protection services?
Introduction This workshop was presented by Dr Georgia Philip from the Centre for Research on Children and Families (CRCF), based at the University of East Anglia (UEA). Georgia explained she is a sociologist by training and her research has focused on fathers, fatherhood and father engagement. In particular she has worked on two major research… Read More
