2012
10 February 2012
Shirley Dex at the CWRC has recently published a working paper on, 'Multiple risk factors in young children's development' with Ricardo Sabates for the Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS), Institute of Education.
29 March 2012
A new CWRC research report and research brief have been published today.
'Safeguarding children: a comparison of England's data with that of Australia, Norway and the United States' Research Report and Research Brief.
These two new publications were the results of a study commissioned by the Department for Education to undertake a study with the aim of drawing together existing aggregate administrative data on safeguarding children and child protection and exploring the availability and comparability of these data as a tool for comparing England's performance against that of other countries. It considers how different institutional and cultural approaches alongside different forms of provision and support may influence rates of abuse and neglect and the responses of public authorities. Read more.
22 May 2012
The CWRC was commissioned by the DfE to explore how local areas were responding to recommendations outlined in the report, The Munro Review of Child Protection: Final Report. A Child Centred System.
This CWRC working paper, Local Safeguarding Children Board Chairs' perspectives on responding to recommendations outlined in the Munro review of Child Protection: Findings from a national survey, by Emily Munro and Clare Lushey, provides an overview of the key findings and offers an insight in the activities that LSCBs, children's services and partner agencies have been engaged in. Read more.
23 May 2012
This report, Health Related Work in Family Intervention Projects, prepared by Janet Boddy, June Statham, Ian Warwick, Katie Hollingworth and Grace Spencer, was commissioned by the Department of Health as an evaluation of health related work by intensive family intervention services (formerly Family Intervention Projects, or FIPs), with the over-arching aim of helping intensive family intervention services develop their health-related work, and of informing policy in relation to intervention with families with multiple problems.