Supporting families affected by online sexual offending

• Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation | Children's Services | Families/Parenting

When a parent is found to have viewed child sexual abuse...

Legal Update: Family group conferences

• Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Children's rights | Social Care | Family courts and Cafcass | Legal | Preventing Care Proceedings

Emily Blackshaw, lead quantitative analyst and Max Stanford,...

Can parenting support help families better navigate future challenges?

• Children's Services | Families/Parenting

Three parenting experts on the impact of the cost-of-living...

Parenting Programmes: Special Report

• Children's Services | Families/Parenting

Renewed recognition of the value of parenting support has...

International Focus: Perinatal care, Australia

• Health | Young parents | Families/Parenting | Children's Services | Mental Health | Attachment & Neglect

The cost to the UK of perinatal mental health difficulties...

Supporting families to help themselves

• Children's Services | Families/Parenting

Glasgow-based charity 3D Drumchapel has supported families...

Legal Update: Preparing for the adoption assessment process

• Legal | Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Families/Parenting | Children's rights

How prospective adopters are prepared for assessment can...

Scheme trains parents to boost literacy skills of disadvantaged children

• Early Years | Early years education | Families/Parenting | Early help

National Literacy Trust supports parents and under-fives to...

Should ‘free’ childcare be for the most disadvantaged only?

• Early Years | Families/Parenting

An NAO report suggests funded childcare may damage social...

Council redesigns care pathway to boost SLC support

• Early Years | Early years education | Families/Parenting | Early help

Nottingham City Council aims to boost social mobility by...

Social Mobility in the Early Years: Special Report

• Early Years | Families/Parenting

Interventions to boost young children’s outcomes and narrow...

Triple P helps Nottingham expand support for families

• Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Attachment & Neglect | Preventing Care Proceedings

Nottingham City Council says the adoption of Triple P has...

Stoke-on-Trent City Council: Local Spotlight

• Children's Services | Management | Service configuration | Ofsted | Families/Parenting

West Midlands area famous for its pottery industry is trying...

Parenting Programmes: Special Report

• Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection | Attachment & Neglect | Preventing Care Proceedings

Parenting programmes aim to give parents the insights and...

Children’s letters give parents insight into the impact of their conflict

• Social Care | Family courts and Cafcass | Safeguarding and child protection | Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Preventing Care Proceedings

Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service...

Sefton’s trauma-informed approach helps families to recover from ACEs

• Health | Mental health | Social Care | Families/Parenting

Sefton Council rolls out its adverse childhood experiences...

Giving children a better start in life

• Early Years | Early years education | Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Child poverty | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities | Play | Outdoor Learning

The National Lottery-funded A Better Start programme to...

Sibling relationships in the care system

• Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Residential and specialist care | Children's Services | Children's rights | Families/Parenting | Legal | Residential Children's Care | Foster Care | Adoption

Children’s services and courts face serious challenges when...

Therapeutic Care: Special Report

• Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Social Care | Residential and specialist care | Fostering and adoption | Mental Health | Residential Children's Care | Foster Care | Adoption

With rises in children coming into care and reporting mental...

Children’s services inspection

• Children's Services | Information sharing | Families/Parenting | Early help | Children's rights | Management | Ofsted

Ofsted says the children’s services inspection regime is...

Support for special guardians

• Children's rights | Families/Parenting | Family courts and Cafcass | Legal

Kamena Dorling, head of policy and public affairs at Coram...

Domestic Abuse: Special Report

• Families/Parenting | Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation

Cases of domestic abuse recorded by police and children's...

Troubled Families programme: its impact and what should replace it

• Families/Parenting | Preventing Care Proceedings

An evaluation of the government's Troubled Families...

Help for children of alcoholics

• Health | Drugs and alcohol | Families/Parenting | Preventing Care Proceedings

Councils should create drop-in centres to support children...

Learning from Troubled Families

• Families/Parenting | Commissioning

How can commissioners use the Troubled Families programme to...

Child Sexual Exploitation: Policy context

• Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Safeguarding and child protection

Child sexual exploitation, while on the radar of child...

Special Report: Child Sexual Exploitation

• Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation

Rotherham's child sexual exploitation scandal propelled the...

Disorganized Attachment in Infancy: A Review of the Phenomenon and its Implications for Clinicians and Policy-Makers

• Families/Parenting | Safeguarding and child protection | Mental Health

This review paper, co-authored by international academics...

Special Report: Children's Mental Health

• Mental health | Families/Parenting | Leaving care | Safeguarding and child protection | Mental Health

As concerns persist over children and young people's mental...

Special Report: Early Help

• Early help | Families/Parenting | Preventing Care Proceedings

Council early help services are changing. With budgets...

Early Help: Policy context

• Early help | Families/Parenting

Amid rising demand for child protection services over the...

Helping Birmingham Families Early: The 'Signs of Safety and Wellbeing' Practice Framework

• Early help | Families/Parenting | Preventing Care Proceedings

The authors discuss the Signs of Safety and Wellbeing...

Special Report: Intrafamilial Abuse

• Families/Parenting | Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation

Data shows the number of child abuse, parental neglect and...

Legal Update: How to tackle repeat removals

• Families/Parenting | Family courts and Cafcass | Safeguarding and child protection | Legal | Preventing Care Proceedings

Kamena Dorling, head of policy and programmes at Coram...

Special Report: Restorative Practice

• Children's rights | Families/Parenting | Safeguarding and child protection | Community sentencing and restorative justice | Participation

Restorative practice is now being used across a wide range...

Leading the charge for families: Ellen Broome, chief executive, the Family and Childcare Trust

• Early Years | Families/Parenting

Derren Hayes talks to Ellen Broome, chief executive of the...

Special Report: Social Work With Children and Families

• Early help | Families/Parenting | Social Care | Preventing Care Proceedings

Social workers are among the most important people in the...

Strong voice for single parents: Rosie Ferguson, chief executive, Gingerbread

• Families/Parenting | Interview

Neil Puffett meets Rosie Ferguson, chief executive of...

Parental conflict: the impact for children and how to resolve it

• Families/Parenting | Social Care | Preventing Care Proceedings

Academic whose research underpins new government drive to...

Lessons from serious case reviews: Disguised compliance

• Families/Parenting | Safeguarding and child protection

The NSPCC has analysed evidence from serious case reviews to...

Caring for children with complex needs

• Health | Families/Parenting

WellChild nurses work in innovative ways to support children...

Legal Update: Special guardianship orders

• Children's rights | Families/Parenting | Social Care | Family courts and Cafcass | Fostering and adoption | Safeguarding and child protection | Legal | Adoption

Serious case review highlights need for rigorous assessments...

Relationships in the early years

• Early years education | Early help | Families/Parenting | Attachment & Neglect

Advice on commissioning evidence-based parenting...

Social Workers on the witness stand

• Families/Parenting | Social Care | Family courts and Cafcass | Fostering and adoption | Safeguarding and child protection

Giving evidence in court can be a daunting experience for...

The policy context on preventing care proceedings

• Families/Parenting | Social Care | Family courts and Cafcass | Preventing Care Proceedings

In the face of tightening council budgets and rising demand...

Special Report: Preventing care proceedings

• Families/Parenting | Social Care | Family courts and Cafcass

As the care system continues to come under increased...

Agile software for an agile sector….the story of ICT in Children's Social Care

• Families/Parenting | Social Care

When I started working for the London Borough of Islington...

The policy context on Attachment and Neglect

• Early Years | Health | Mental health | Young parents | Children's Services | Early help | Families/Parenting | Information sharing | Management | Leadership | Social Care | Family courts and Cafcass | Fostering and adoption | Safeguarding and child protection | Attachment & Neglect

In recent years there has been a growing recognition of the...

Key steps that will improve play services for disabled children

• Health | Disabled children and young people | Children's Services | Children's rights | Early help | Families/Parenting | Information sharing | Management | Leadership | Service configuration | Social Care | Play

A charity has devised a blueprint for improved access to...

Future of foster care: innovation in recruitment and retention

• Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Management | Service configuration | Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Foster Care

Three out of four children in care are fostered, but the...

Maternity care for migrants, Sweden

• Health | Young parents | Public Health | Children's Services | Families/Parenting

CYP Now has teamed up with the Churchill Fellowship to...

How artists help children to explore their life stories

• Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Foster Care

Creative Life Story Work sees care-experienced children work...

Children with a parent in prison get timely help

• Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Social Care

Project speeds up process of identifying children affected...

How I Got Here: Honor Whitby, senior practitioner, Ormiston Families

• Careers | Children's Services | Families/Parenting

Honor Whitby, senior practitioner at Ormiston Families on...

Parent-child relationships enhanced by inclusive prevention programme

• Children's Services | Families/Parenting

Strengthening Families, Strengthening Communities is used...

Family Links nurtures parents’ emotional skills

• Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Attachment & Neglect | Preventing Care Proceedings

Family Links’ Nurturing Programme aims to strengthen family...

Proven strategies benefit adoptive parents

• Adoption | Children's Services | Families/Parenting

Social workers deliver adoption-specific parenting skills...

Test and learn approach improves outcomes in Southend

• Early Years | Children's centres | Children's Services | Families/Parenting

Families in deprived areas of Southend are being supported...

Parents hone their skills thanks to extra support

• Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Preventing Care Proceedings

Parenting programmes and workshops develop families’ skills...

Suicide bereavement support, Denmark

• Health | Mental health | Families/Parenting | Children's Services | Mental Health

Anna Wardley visited Denmark to speak to leading experts and...

How I Got Here: Cath Pickles, chief executive, Restitute

• Careers | Families/Parenting | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation

Cath Pickles is chief executive of Restitute, a community...

Promoting respect for diversity in the community

• Families/Parenting | Children's Services | Early Years

Groundbreaking programme helps parents realise how their...

Parents get the skills to enhance at-home learning

• Education | Families/Parenting

Programme aims to improve children’s outcomes by boosting...

Disaster-based trauma support, Australia

• Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Education | Safeguarding in education | Mental Health

The rugged, remote and inhospitable nature of much of the...

How peer support helps children cope better with grief

• Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Social Care | Mental Health

Weekly sessions of peer support give children and families a...

Local partnership develops early learning toolkit

• Early years education | Families/Parenting | Play

Flexible framework helps local organisations tailor their...

Parent partner programmes, US

• Families/Parenting | Preventing Care Proceedings

Parent partner programmes bring together parents whose...

How Baby Steps helps put new parents on a firm footing

• Families/Parenting | Attachment & Neglect | Preventing Care Proceedings

NSPCC programme sees new parents who may be less likely to...

Workshops help families get the right support

• Disabled children and young people | Families/Parenting | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities

Programme of workshops gives parents with disabled children...

Hampshire consortium supports victims of domestic abuse

• Families/Parenting | Safeguarding and child protection

Partnership developed between voluntary sector providers and...

Navigators help families chart way past domestic violence

• Families/Parenting | Safeguarding and child protection

High-risk families supported by a domestic abuse navigator.

Evidence and Impact: Improving infant mental health

• Families/Parenting | Mental Health

The latest in a series of articles about emerging...

Children's Social Care Innovation Programme: Support for complex adolescents

• Families/Parenting | Mentoring | Youth Offending

Projects in the first phase of the DfE's Children's Social...

Families adopt safer strategies

• Families/Parenting

Getting On aims to reduce teen-to-parent abuse and...

Early Help Profiling System

• Early help | Families/Parenting | Safeguarding and child protection

Uses advanced analytics to identify families at risk and...

Seven features of practice

• Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Preventing Care Proceedings

Projects in the first phase of the Children's Social Care...

Whole-system change for social workers

• Families/Parenting

Systemic social work training helps practitioners,...

Sandwell Family Partners

• Early help | Families/Parenting | Preventing Care Proceedings

Practitioners identify issues vulnerable families may face...

School-Home Support

• Education | Early help | Families/Parenting | Preventing Care Proceedings

Practitioners work with families to address the root causes...

Whole-family approaches to tackling domestic abuse

• Families/Parenting | Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation

Projects in the first phase of the Children's Social Care...

How programme ends cycle of family violence

• Families/Parenting

Professionals intervene to help repair and improve family...

Shine, Hudson Children's Centre

• Early help | Families/Parenting | Preventing Care Proceedings

Children's centre develops 10-week programme for new mums...

Juvenile Firesetters Intervention Scheme

• Early help | Families/Parenting | Preventing Care Proceedings

Targeted, individually-tailored one-to-one programme aims to...

International Focus: SOS Children's Villages, Finland

• Families/Parenting | Preventing Care Proceedings

Finland has a population of 5.5 million. Despite being a...

Local Spotlight: West Sussex County Council

• Families/Parenting | Leadership

The South East authority has reorganised children's services...

Sheffield City Council

• Families/Parenting | Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation

Intrafamilial sexual abuse case review highlighted poor...

Family Safeguarding Hertfordshire

• Families/Parenting | Safeguarding and child protection

Children and adult social workers collaborate to keep...

Lessons from Serious Case Reviews: Parental substance misuse

• Drugs and alcohol | Families/Parenting | Safeguarding and child protection | Attachment & Neglect

The NSPCC has analysed evidence from serious case reviews to...

Newport Family Assessment and Support Service

• Families/Parenting | Safeguarding and child protection

Newport Council and Barnardo's Cymru working with families...

How intervention helps families to turn a corner

• Families/Parenting | Preventing Care Proceedings

Targeted intervention programme helps families to change...

Family Violence, Fathers, and Restoring Personhood

• Families/Parenting | Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation

This paper explored a US group-based fathering programme...

How family grants achieve change

• Families/Parenting

Connect Project helps families in financial difficulties.

Ask the Experts: Making staff training engaging

• Nurseries | Children's rights | Families/Parenting | Safeguarding and child protection | Youth Work

Our expert panel offers advice on effective staff training,...

Brighter Futures, Ealing Council

• Families/Parenting | Social Care | Preventing Care Proceedings

Pilot aimed to prevent placement and family breakdown among...

Leeds City Council

• Families/Parenting | Social Care | Preventing Care Proceedings

Restorative practice crucial to Leeds children's services'...

Ask the Experts: How should social workers dress?

• Nurseries | Families/Parenting | Social Care | Youth Work

Our expert panel offers advice on social worker appearance,...

Ask the Experts: Youth centre social media policy

• Early Years | Families/Parenting | Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection

Our expert panel offers advice on social networking for...

How schools identify and aid young carers

• Education | Families/Parenting | Social Care

Young Carers in Schools programme helps pupils improve their...

Ask the Experts: Families benefit from genograms

• Nurseries | Families/Parenting | Service configuration

Our expert panel offers advice on genograms in social work,...

Ask the Experts: Support domestic abuse victims

• Nurseries | Families/Parenting | Safeguarding and child protection | Youth Work

Our panel offers advice on family support after domestic...

Parental Involvement and its Effects on Children’s Education

• Education | Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities

Evidence shows parental engagement in children’s learning at...

Study of Adolescent Young Carers Aged 15–17 in Six European Countries

• Social Care | Families/Parenting | Children's Services

Young carers are children and young people under the age of...

Online programs as tools to improve parenting: A meta-analytic review

• Social Care | Children's Services | Families/Parenting

This review provides an assessment of 11 web-based parenting...

Why Families on a Low Income are Spending More During Covid-19

• Children's Services | Child poverty | Families/Parenting | Coronavirus

The Pandemic Pressures study is a collaboration between the...

Enhancing Outcomes of Low-Intensity Parenting Groups Through Sufficient Exemplar Training: A Randomized Control Trial

• Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Preventing Care Proceedings

Low-intensity parenting programmes play an important role in...

The Cost-Effectiveness of UK Parenting Programmes for Preventing Children’s Behaviour Problems – A Review of the Evidence

• Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Preventing Care Proceedings

This paper reviews the economic evidence available to...

Making Fathers Relevant: How Practitioners Include Both Parents in Talk About Parenting Programmes

• Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Preventing Care Proceedings

This paper reports on a study that investigated parental...

Child, Caregiver, and Therapist Perspectives on Therapeutic Alliance in Usual Care Child Psychotherapy

• Social Care | Health | Mental health | Families/Parenting | Mental Health | Preventing Care Proceedings

The primary aim of this exploratory study was to examine the...

Returning Children Home From Care: What Can Be Learned From Local Authority Data?

• Social Care | Leaving care | Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Leaving Care

Researchers from the University of East Anglia wanted to...

Couple Relationship Quality and the Infant Home Language Environment

• Families/Parenting | Preventing Care Proceedings

Researchers from the Centre for Family Research at the...

Intensive Interventions Suitable for Children on the Edge of Care: Report and Recommendations for Social Finance

• Early help | Families/Parenting | Preventing Care Proceedings

This report identifies the interventions that are effective...

Interventions to Improve the Response of Professionals to Children Exposed to Domestic Violence and Abuse: A Systematic Review

• Families/Parenting | Safeguarding and child protection

Despite the major public health and clinical impact of...

A Review of Domestic Violence Perpetrator Programmes in the United Kingdom

• Families/Parenting | Safeguarding and child protection

This article looks at the issue of programmes that work with...

Beyond 'Witnessing': Children's Experiences of Coercive Control in Domestic Violence and Abuse

• Families/Parenting | Safeguarding and child protection

This study looked at children's lived experiences of...

Evaluation of Growing Futures: Research Report

• Families/Parenting

This study is an evaluation of the Growing Futures programme...

In the Digital Home, How do Parents Support Their Children and Who Supports Them?

• Families/Parenting

Researchers at the London School of Economics (LSE) wanted...

Combatting Child Sexual Exploitation with Young People and Parents: Contributions to a Twenty-First-Century Family Support Agenda

• Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation

This article discusses family work with young people and...

Term, Singleton, Intrapartum Stillbirth and Intrapartum-related Neonatal Death

• Health | Families/Parenting

Researchers aimed to identify potentially preventable...

Engaging on the 'Front Line': Exploring How Family Support Teams Construct Meaning in Their Work With Young Mothers

• Families/Parenting | Preventing Care Proceedings

This paper explores the provision of family support services...

Referrals and Child Protection in England: One in Five Children Referred to Children's Services and One in Nineteen Investigated before the Age of Five

• Families/Parenting | Safeguarding and child protection | Preventing Care Proceedings

This quantitative study focuses on the high proportion of...

The Effectiveness of the Incredible Years Pre-school Parenting Programme in the United Kingdom: a Pragmatic Randomised Trial

• Early help | Families/Parenting | Preventing Care Proceedings

The authors discuss the findings of an evaluation of the...

Child Protection Social Work in England: How Can It Be Reformed?

• Families/Parenting | Social Care | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation

Martyn Higgins examines debates about child protection...

Exploring Communication Between Social Workers, Children and Young People

• Families/Parenting | Social Care | Preventing Care Proceedings

This paper discusses findings from the ethnographic phase of...

Peer support for parents of disabled children part 1: perceived outcomes of a one-to-one service, a qualitative study

• Special Educational Needs | Disabled children and young people | Children's rights | Families/Parenting | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities

Parents of disabled children are encouraged by health...

Permanence for disabled children and young people through foster care and adoption: A selective review of international literature

• Special Educational Needs | Disabled children and young people | Families/Parenting | Family courts and Cafcass | Fostering and adoption | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities | Adoption

Review discusses concerns and policy directions regarding...

Beyond symptom control for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: what can parents do to improve outcomes?

• Special Educational Needs | Disabled children and young people | Families/Parenting | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities

This narrative review of literature aimed to highlight the...

Research Report: Early Maternal Time Investment and Early Child Outcomes

• Education | Families/Parenting

Researchers wanted to examine how the amount of time mothers...

Special Report: Preventing care proceedings - Research evidence

• Drugs and alcohol | Families/Parenting | Family courts and Cafcass | Preventing Care Proceedings

The research section for this special report is based on a...

Special Report: Attachment and Neglect - Research Evidence

• Early Years | Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Information sharing | Social Care | Family courts and Cafcass | Fostering and adoption | Safeguarding and child protection | Attachment & Neglect

Local Authority Short Breaks Statements: Accessibility and Accuracy

• Disabled children and young people | Children's rights | Families/Parenting | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities

Analysis of statements provided by 63 local authorities in...