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Facing up to the Task

The Social Work Task Force was set up by the Government to undertake a comprehensive review of frontline social work practice and to make recommendations for improvement and reform of the whole...

Family Information Service Survey 2010: assessment of Family Information Service performance against the information duty in the Childcare Act 2006

This report provides a snapshot of key information about Family Information Services (FISs) and about whether English Local Authorities (LAs) are successfully meeting their duty under section 12 of...

Poverty and Inequality in Scotland

Taking a human rights approach to poverty is often linked to the idea of an individual’s socio-economic rights – in other words, that as human beings we are all entitled to expect a certain basic...

Poverty, inequality and human rights

People working to tackle poverty in the UK are increasingly interested in using human rights in their work. This study looks at how this has been done in other countries, its impact on affected...

The August riots in England

The overall aim of this study was to explore the triggers of youth involvement in the August riots from the perspective of those involved and affected. Young people were not solely responsible for...

Views of young people with SEN and their parents on residential education.

In this report, we present the findings from interviews with families about their experiences of residential education for young people with SEN or a disability, and their views on the placement...

Young people with special educational needs/learning difficulties and disabilities

Approaches to preparing young people for adult life and planning their transition vary across local authorities.

9 principles ro achieve quality social and health services

Quality social and health services are an essential part of the European social model. More specifi cally, they enhance the physical, mental, cultural and social capacity of individuals to...

As long as it takes

This report draws out the trends in children’s policy over the last 21 years, and identifies some of the reasons why we have seen such rapid change and short-termism in policy, funding and...

Ethnicity and Family

This paper outlines the ethnic composition of families in Britain today using the Labour Force Survey household data. That is, it explores whether adults from different ethnic groups are living with...

Getting better? Improving outcomes for children and young people

Children and young people are healthier today than they have ever been but to make England the best place for children to grow up, we need to support families so they receive world-class health...

Getting better? Improving outcomes for children and young people Part 2

This briefing has been prepared to highlight the key research messages from the Centre for Excellence and Outcomes in Children and Young People’s services (C4EO) for general practitioners (GPs) and...

Human rights in your community

‘Human rights in the community’ is an exciting three year project (2010–12) that aims to empower individuals and communities with human rights language and tools, supporting them to challenge poor...

Intensive Family Support: the evidence

Action for Children’s evidence base shows that intensive family support can keep children out of care, prevent anti-social behaviour and provide a cost-effective solution to service provision,...

Islands in the stream

This report presents the results of an evaluation of four Independent Domestic Violence Advocacy (IDVA) schemes in London, which are based in different settings: in a police station; hospital A&E...

Rural disadvantage Reviewing the evidence

This overview explores the difference living in a rural area makes to being ‘disadvantaged’. It pulls together existing contemporary evidence on disadvantage in rural England and provides an...

Study on Social and Health Services of General Interest in the European Union

The Commission Communication “Implementing the Community Lisbon programme – Social services of general interest in the European Union” of April 2006 has announced to establish a monitoring and...

The experiences of fostering and adoption processes

The Local Government Association (LGA) commissioned the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) to review the existing literature. The study sought to capture the views and experiences of...

Learning independence

For this report, we have taken the views of 308 young people who had recently left care, or were about to leave care, together with the views of 56 boarders and residential further education college...

A better fit? Summary

England’s population is ageing, and fast. By 2030 one in three people are projected to be aged 55 and over. Older people will be a diverse group, ranging from economically powerful ‘baby boomers’ to...

A better fit? Policy

The ageing society is one of the most well-documented and universally accepted facts of our time, so it is surprising that the housing system – both public and private – has been so slow to adapt to...

Keeping children safe

The law plays a vital role in protecting vulnerable children, including those at risk of, or who are experiencing neglect. The criminal law can and should empower the public, the police, social...

The experiences of fostering and adoption processes - Executive Summary

The current financial climate and its impact on local authority service planning and delivery is at the forefront of local decision making. Lead members and officers will want to understand how...

Charting New Waters

The funding, commissioning, management and delivery structures for addressing the problems associated with illicit drugs in England are experiencing an unprecedented level of change. The government’s...

Progress on implementing the Munro Review of Child Protection and Social Work Reform - a View from the Children’s Improvement Board

At its meeting on February 16th 2012, CIB considered an update report on sector support for implementing the Munro Review of Child Protection and Social Work Reform. The CIB Delivery Team was...

PISA 2009: How does the social attainment gap in England compare with countries internationally?

OECD state that the relationship between pupils’ socio-economic background and performance is a key measure of how equitably a country’s education system distributes educational opportunities. This...

The role of aspirations, attitudes and behaviour in closing the educational attainment gap

The relationship between poverty and educational attainment is not fully understood. How can the educational attainment gap be narrowed? Which interventions have successfully improved educational...

Making Health and Social Care Personal and Local

Right now three powerful forces are coming together to fundamentally change how public services are provided in the UK. The first is the drive towards ‘localism’ to devolve power and decision making...

Children’s experiences of child protection procedures

In 2012, Professor Munro asked us to help her again, this time to consult children who had recently had experience of being involved in the child protection system in some of the local authorities...

Responsible Reform

This report is a comprehensive presentation of the most relevant evidence available on Disability Living Allowance (DLA) and the proposals to replace it with a new benefit, Personal Independence...

Returning home from care

Returning home to a parent or relative is the most common outcome for looked after children. However, children continue to face abuse and neglect when they return home. It is vital that we work...

Ripe for reform: the sector agrees, now the public expects

The Local Government Association (LGA) has long campaigned for reform of our care and support system and we believe we are edging closer to seeing real, tangible change for the better. The...

City Strategy: Final Evaluation

The City Strategy (CS) concept was first announced in the 2006 Welfare Reform Green Paper – A new deal for welfare: Empowering people to work. CS was designed at a time of growth in the national...

The Prince’s Trust Youth Index 2012

This report marks the fourth annual publishing of the Youth Index, carried out by YouGov on behalf of The Prince’s Trust. The Youth Index is made up of a happiness index and a confidence index,...

What children said about how adoption agencies should be inspected in future

An evaluation report on what children and young people told us about our ideas for changing the way we inspect adoption agencies in the future.

Wales Children in Need Census, 2011

The purpose of the CIN census is to collect data that measures the characteristics and attributes of children in need and their parents. For this data collection, children in need are defined as...

A New Approach to Child Poverty

This is the Government’s first national Child Poverty Strategy, setting out a new approach to tackling poverty for this Parliament and up to 2020. At its heart are strengthening families, encouraging...

Conducting the inspection: arrangements for the protection of children

This guidance is to assist Ofsted inspectors when they conduct inspections of the arrangements for the protection of children in local authorities in England. It should be read alongside the...

Inspections of arrangements for the protection of children

This evaluation schedule sets out the arrangements for inspections of local authority arrangements for the protection of children, including the effectiveness of early identification and help for...

Continuity of care for older hospital patients

Everyone wants patients to receive consistent, reliable, high-quality care, and most health workers think that this means providing patient-centred care with compassion. So why does it not feel like...

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