View a range of Family & Community focused research articles and reports from Wales and across the UK for those who wish to develop their knowledge further. This section includes relevant reviews of policy and practice to measure success and areas for improvement. In the near future, we will also be including summaries and subject-specific overviews to help guide your research. Please note that copyright prevents us hosting some published journal articles and therefore these are provided as links to external websites and may require payment or access arrangement to view.

  • Child playing
    How involving children and young people can positively transform your service 

    This report produced by Peer Power provides outputs from a project they were commissioned to undertake by the Youth Justice Board. Includes a research report, a younger reader summary report and resources designed to help practitioners in the youth justice sector…
  • Young student
    Transforming education survey 

    Read this report on the Transforming Education Survey – a survey administered to students aged 7-18 to share their views on education and how it can be transformed…
  • Children
    The Convention on the Rights of the Child at a crossroad 

    This report is intended to be both celebratory, appreciating the achievements made since the publication of the UNCRC but also offers a critical viewpoint highlighting the work that is yet to be done…
  • Adult and child working on a geography book
    Children’s rights education with children aged 0-6 years 

    This discussion paper reports on the findings of a literature review on child rights education with young children…
  • Evaluation of the Recruit, Recover and Raise Standards (RRRS) Programme

    Evaluation of Recruit, Recover and Raise Standards (RRRS) and early years funding. The programme aimed to mitigate the effects of the pandemic on learners by increasing staff capacity in early years and school settings…
  • Child and flower
    State of Children’s Rights in Wales

    The second report prepared by the Wales UNCRC Monitoring Group has launched. This is the second report prepared by the Wales UNCRC Monitoring Group, which is a civil society coalition facilitated by Children in Wales, to inform the 94th Session and the examination of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
  • Teacher and class
    Research on the early implementation of Curriculum for Wales

    This report presents findings of the first wave of qualitative research with 64 senior leaders in schools and Pupil Referral Units (PRUs) which examined schools’ early experiences of roll-out of Curriculum for Wales (CfW)…
  • Woman with children wearing face masks
    COVID–19, Education and Learning: Amplifying Young Children’s Voices

    The document provides a report on a study that sought to amplify the voices of young children, aged 3-6years during the Covid-19 pandemic, about their experiences of education at that time. The report details the methodology adopted during the study, which includes the use of creative and participatory methods designed to ensure that researchers could access and record the experiences of the young children…
  • Cost of living and education 2022

    The findings of this report show that the cost of living crisis is increasingly impacting families, with prices rising and parents struggling to make their incomes stretch…
  • Wales
    Understanding Welsh Places

    Understanding Welsh Places provides you with useful data and geographical information about your town or local area. The graphics, maps and guidance on the website have been developed to enable you to explore the data you need to help you identify opportunities for your local community and make a difference in the place where you live or work…