Article review by Dr Donald Forrester on the article: Children living with parental substance misuse: A cross‐sectional profile of children and families referred to children’s social care. Read More
Judging parental competence: A cross-country analysis of judicial decision makers’ written assessment of mothers’ parenting capacities in newborn removal cases
Article review by Dr David Wilkins on the article: Judging parental competence: A cross-country analysis of judicial decision makers’ Read More
New book: The Children of Looked After Children
A new book by Dr Louise Roberts, The Children of Looked After Children: Outcomes, Experiences and Ensuring Meaningful Support to Young Parents In and Leaving Care, provides some much-needed evidence about children born to young parents in and leaving care and explores the support available when young people become parents… Read More
Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic education report welcomed by Minister
The Education Minister, Kirsty Williams, has accepted all of the recommendations of a report on Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Communities, Contributions and Cynefin in the new school Curriculum… Read More
Implementing Routine Outcome Monitoring in Statutory Children’s Services
Article Review by Dr David Wilkins on the article: Implementing Routine Outcome Monitoring in Statutory Children’s Services Read More
International Parent Advocacy Network
In addition to featured speakers, we will present a voice recording of the experiences of a number of the parent representatives on the steering group, their views on their experiences of children’s social care, and what has been most significant in their journey… Read More
Black and minority ethnic carers
There is a dearth of research with Black and Minority Ethnic carers. Little is known about the experiences of this group, and their access to and take up of formal and informal support… Read More
Working in partnership with families through participative meetings
There are several models for involving family members in decision making where there are concerns about a child, rather than key decisions being made in a professionally-led case conference… Read More
NSPCC Reunification Practice Framework: evidence-informed framework for children in care
The session offers an overview of the Reunification Practice Framework, a comprehensive framework that brings together research insights, practical guidance and tools to support practitioners to gather robust evidence and make structured professional judgements around safe permanency decisions… Read More
Community-based digital maternal and child health
The Co-Designing Community-based ICTs Interventions for Maternal and Child Health in South Africa (CoMaCH) Network brings together researchers and practitioners from South Africa, the UK, and beyond… Read More
