The Centre for Child and Family Justice Research are launching the final report of their Nuffield funded birth mothers and recurrent care proceedings study today, at the Friends Meeting House, Euston Road, London. Afternoon workshops led by experts in the field will consider the practice and policy implications of the particular issues raised in the […]
4th October 2017, 9.30 – 4.30 pm, Friends Meeting House, London The Centre for Child and Family Justice Research are launching the final report of their Nuffield funded birth mothers and recurrent care proceedings study. Afternoon workshops led by experts in the field will consider the practice and policy implications of the particular issues raised […]
The launch of the final report of the Nuffield funded birth mothers and recurrent care proceedings study on 4th October is now fully booked.
In this blog Chris Grover examines what the manifestos of the Conservative, Green, Labour, Liberal Democrat and the Scottish Nationalist parties, and Plaid Cymru and UKIP say about social security policy for working age families. Read the blog post here
Professor Karen Broadhurst and Dr. Yang Hu, working in partnership with a team from the University of East Anglia led by Professor Marian Brandon, have been awarded a new £411k research grant from the Nuffield Foundation. This new project will establish the first nationally representative survey of fathers in family court proceedings. The two-year project […]
Professor Karen Broadhurst and Claire Mason, from the Centre for Child and Family Justice Research at Lancaster University, have a new article in the April 2017 edition of the International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family. The paper“…aims to capture the full range of consequences that birth parents face, following court-ordered removal of their children […]
Professor Karen Broadhurst, Claire Mason and Dr. Stuart Bedston, from the Centre for Child and Family Justice Research at Lancaster University, set out arguments based on research from the national study of recurrent care proceedings (funded by the Nuffield Foundation), in support of a proposed amendment to the Children and Social Work Bill. The article can […]
CFJ is delighted to be supporting the Nuffield Foundation to answer the President’s questions about rising care demand Watch this space for short report from this event – how can we interrupt a looming crisis in the family courts…..
Colleagues from the Centre have been awarded a grant to host a seminar on ‘Transnational Family Justice in Migration Crises’. This event is part of the Sociological Review Research Seminar Series and has been funded by The Sociological Review Foundation. The seminar will take place at Lancaster University this summer.
The Centre for Child and Family Justice Research welcomes visiting scholar Dr Miao Chunfeng for 12 months. Chunfeng is sponsored by the Chinese Social Science Foundation.