The Child and Family Justice team has just won the FASS award for Excellence in External Engagement and Impact, received on behalf of Claire Mason.

A new paper entitled ‘Child and Parent Outcomes in the London Family Drug and Alcohol Court Five Years On: Building on International Evidence’ has been published this month in the International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family. Parental substance misuse is a major social problem of international concern and frequent cause of referral to child […]

The Centre for Child and Family Justice Research is launching a new report today on care demand and regional variability. It finds that women, as well as children, in the North, face the highest risk of care proceedings in the country. The report builds on research released last summer following a conference at Lancaster University. […]

The short documentary, Turning Points, from our project Mothers and Recurrent Care Proceedings is now available: http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/recurrent-care/turning-points-documentary/

A new report by Karen Broadhurst, Tracey Budd and Teresa Williams has been published, which details the plans for the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory for England and Wales. The Family Justice Observatory will support the best possible decisions for children by improving the use of data and research evidence in the family justice system in England […]

Fathers have legal party status in approximately 70% of care proceedings (Section 31) each year, a sizeable population about whom we know very little. This ambitious mixed-methods project is designed to fill this important evidence gap and provide a much more complete picture of the characteristics of father figures (including birth and step fathers and partners […]

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 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 […]

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.