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No Secrets

In recent years several serious incidents have demonstrated the need for immediate action to ensure that vulnerable adults, who are at risk of abuse, receive protection and support. The Government...

Fulfilled Lives, Supportive Communities

The complex problems of our society - family breakdown, mental health, domestic abuse, substance misuse, antisocial and offending behaviour, disability, frailty and poverty – demand specialist...

Sick, tired and caring

Data from the Census in 2001 found that carers are a third more likely to be in poor health than non carers.1 The more recent Scottish Household Survey found that 12% of carers reported that they...

Do we need a UK Bill of Rights?

The Commission on a Bill of Rights is an independent Commission set up by the Government and required by our Terms of Reference: “To investigate the creation of a UK Bill of Rights that incorporates...

Support and aspiration: A new approach to special educational needs and disability

Every child deserves a fair start in life, with the very best opportunity to succeed. Currently, life chances for the approximately two million children and young people in England who are identified...

Support and aspiration: A new approach to special educational needs and disability

Too many children and young people who are disabled or identified as having special educational needs (SEN) have poor outcomes in life and they and their families can struggle to get the support they...

The Cost of Caring

What is the true cost of caring for families looking after ill, frail or disabled relatives? There are an estimated 6.4 million people in the UK providing unpaid care and support to ill, frail and...

Valuing Carers 2011

This paper updates the estimate of the value of carers’ support published by Carers UK in 2007 in Valuing carers – calculating the value of carers’ support. There are over six million carers, family...

Valuing Carers – calculating the value of unpaid care

This report updates the estimate of the value of unpaid care published by Carers UK in 2002 in ‘Without Us…? Calculating the value of carers’ support’. Based on data available for the first time at...

Hidden Children

The trafficking and exploitation of children can take many forms, both commercial and non-commercial. To date, however, there has been comparatively little focus on hidden children in the UK who are...

Persistent Poverty and Children’s Cognitive Development: Evidence from the UK Millennium Cohort Study

We use data from the four sweeps of the UK Millennium Cohort Study of children born at the turn of the century to document the impact that poverty, and in particular persistent poverty, has on their...

Click Clever Click Safe

This is the first UK Child Internet Safety Strategy. It sets out: • the things we have done so far to keep children safe online; • our commitments to parents, children and young people and the things...

European Convention on Human Rights

The European Convention on Human Rights, an international treaty drawn up within the Council of Europe, was opened for signature in Rome in 1950. On 1 June 2010 it was amended by Protocol No. 14,...

Counting the Costs 2010

Families with disabled children are living under extreme financial pressures. The UK has just experienced the worst recession since the 1930s and the economic outlook is still unclear. Everyone has...

Counting the Costs 2008

This report describes the findings of an online survey carried out during the summer of 2008 (May-July) with 793 UK parents of disabled children about their economic situation over the last 12 months...

Poverty and Inequality in 2020

This report is concerned with the impact of future changes in employment structures and pay patterns on income inequality and poverty. Using the latest Working Futures projections of employment,...

The Impact of Employment Changes on Poverty in 2020

This project considers the impact of changes in the structure of employment and pay on income inequality and poverty. It combines employment projections with a tax and benefit model to simulate the...

Tackling Child Sexual Exploitation

This action plan recognises the University of Bedfordshire findings that far too few LSCBs are implementing existing guidance effectively and that awareness of child sexual exploitation remains low...

Puppet on a string

The report not only examines what is known about the scale and nature of child sexual exploitation, but also provides powerful evidence from our services on the developing trends. The stories of...

Issues facing commissioners of end-of-life care

End-of-life care services are typically funded and delivered by a mix of providers from the health (NHS), social (local authority) and voluntary sectors (such as Marie Curie and hospices), as well as...

Involving users in commissioning local services

This report is about service users’ experience and views of involvement in shaping services, and the experiences and views of commissioners when involving users. The research points to what is...

Building a safe and confident future: Maintaining Momentum

This report reiterates the necessity of reform, celebrates the progress that has been made and outlines what still needs to be done. It also charts the changing context for the work since the Task...

Threat Assessment of Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse

In its new three year strategy CEOP undertakes to assess regularly where and how children are most at risk from sexual exploitation and abuse, to communicate this widely and develop programmes to...

Foundations for Quality

High quality early education and childcare can have a positive long term impact on children’s later learning and achievements, a fact reflected in Government investment over the last two decades in...

The Care Placements Evaluation (CaPE) Evaluation of Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care for Adolescents (MTFC-A)

Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care (MTFC) is a wrap-around multi-modal intervention for children and young people with challenging behaviour. It was initially developed and tested by the Oregon...

Systematic review of models of analysing significant harm

The aim of this review was to identify, critically appraise, and evaluate the potential role of all available tools for assessing/analysing data about the likelihood of significant harm to children...

Standards of proficiency – Social workers in England

This document sets out the standards of proficiency. These standards set out safe and effective practice in the professions we regulate. They are the threshold standards we consider necessary to...

10 questions to ask if you’re scrutinising services for looked after children

This guide has been produced by the Local Government Association in partnership with the National Children’s Bureau. It follows on from a previous guide produced by the Centre for Public Scrutiny (...

Ageing Across Europe

Many European countries, including the UK, are now facing the dual challenge of responding to the demographic changes brought by population ageing, while also implementing tough austerity measures...

Counting the Costs 2012

Counting the Costs 2012, is a report based on an online survey carried out between 20 February and 11 March 2012. It was made up of open and closed questions. It is a repeat of a survey carried out...

Improving the life chances of disabled people

This report sets out an ambitious programme of action that will bring disabled people fully within the scope of the “opportunity society”. By supporting disabled people to help themselves, a step...

Young children suffering, or likely to suffer, significant harm: Experiences on entering education

Since 2005, the Centre for Child and Family Research, Loughborough University has been tracing the decision-making process influencing the life pathways of a cohort of very young children who were...

Exploration of the costs and impact of the Common Assessment Framework

The Common Assessment Framework (CAF) is a standardised approach for the assessment of children and their families, to facilitate the early identification of additional needs and to promote a...

CORE-INFO: Emotional neglect and emotional abuse in pre-school children

This leaflet summarises what is currently known about children aged less than six years who have been emotionally neglected or emotionally abused. It considers the behaviour that can be observed in...

Involving older people in commissioning: more power to their elbow?

Recent policy initiatives in the UK have sought to encourage more people to take charge ofcommissioning their own personal care. This can mean simply people controlling their own directpayments and...

Alternative provision for young people with special educational needs

This study, commissioned by the LGA, explores the ways in which young people with SEN (up to age 19) access and engage in alternative provision in five local authority areas. Case studies were...

Ending child poverty by 2020

On 14 June 2012 the Department for Work and Pensions will release the latest child poverty figures for the period 2010/11 in the form of the Households Below Average Income (HBAI) figures. This data...

Developing indicators for early identification of young people at risk of temporary disconnection from learning

The Local Government Association (LGA) and the Children’s Improvement Board (CIB) have supported The NFER Research Programme, From Education to Employment, by financing this scoping project to gather...

Developing indicators for early identification of young people at risk of temporary disconnection from learning

The NFER Research Programme, launched in 2012, has recognised, through its strand From Education to Employment, that there is widespread benefit in improving the system of identification of young...

Involving people who use services and their carers in the work of the General Social Care Council (2001-12)

Involving people who use services in the work of a professional regulator is a hugely important but difficult thing to achieve. As the regulator for the social care workforce in England, the GSCC has...

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