CFJ team wins FASS award for Excellence in External Engagement and Impact
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.
New paper published this month about parental substance misuse and the law
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 […]
New report on care demand and regional variability published today
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. […]
Turning Points short documentary available
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/
New report on Nuffield Family Justice Observatory plans
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 […]
Up against it: Fathers in care proceedings
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 […]
Vulnerable Birth Mothers and Recurrent Care Proceedings Final Report Launch
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 […]
Launch of Vulnerable Birth Mothers and Repeat Care Proceedings report
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 […]
Vulnerable Birth Mothers and Recurrent Care Proceedings Final Report Launch – Fully Booked
The launch of the final report of the Nuffield funded birth mothers and recurrent care proceedings study on 4th October is now fully booked.
New Blog Post – Social security policy for working age families: what the 2017 General Election manifestos say
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