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Tuesday, January 26, 2021

| CYP Now

Nottingham City Council says the adoption of Triple P has improved choice of support for families and is delivering better outcomes.

How parents take action to end cycle of care

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

| CYP Now

Programme of support for parents that have had children taken into care helps reduce the chance of further pregnancies and proceedings.

Shine, Hudson Children's Centre

Tuesday, January 2, 2018

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Children's centre develops 10-week programme for new mums with poor mental health or emotional wellbeing.

Rethinking early intervention

Tuesday, March 30, 2021

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A decade on from his seminal report, Graham Allen says early intervention needs a fresh sense of purpose.

Protect women in pre-birth care proceedings

Opinion

Thursday, July 20, 2023

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The number of newborn babies subject to care proceedings has more than doubled since 2007, and every year tens of thousands of women have involvement from children’s social care teams during pregnancy and early motherhood.

Troubled Families programme: its impact and what should replace it

Monday, April 29, 2019

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An evaluation of the government's Troubled Families programme suggests it has helped cut care rates by a third as councils invested millions in early help. With the scheme due to end, leaders say the funding must continue.

Action for Children - Multisystemic therapy, Manchester

Tuesday, January 17, 2017

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Intensive, home-based programme supporting young people on the edge of care, and their families.

Parenting Programmes: Policy context

Other

Tuesday, January 26, 2021

| CYP Now

The focus of parenting support has tended to be on interventions with pre-school age children, such as Coram Family and Childcare’s Parent Champions programme which is a peer support network (see expert view).

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

Research

Tuesday, January 2, 2018

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The authors discuss the findings of an evaluation of the Incredible Years (IY) programme delivered to parents of three and four year olds attending universal early years provision at risk of developing a conduct disorder.

Couple Relationship Quality and the Infant Home Language Environment

Research

Tuesday, October 29, 2019

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Researchers from the Centre for Family Research at the University of Cambridge studied 93 first-time, heterosexual parents and their interactions with their infants to determine the effect the quality of a relationship had on parents' verbal interaction with children.

How intervention helps families to turn a corner

Tuesday, October 31, 2017

| CYP Now

Targeted intervention programme helps families to change their lives and improve outcomes for children with child in need plans.

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

Thursday, May 4, 2017

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Academic whose research underpins new government drive to resolve parental conflict explains how policy can help councils develop support programmes that mitigate the damage it causes to children's wellbeing.

Exploring Communication Between Social Workers, Children and Young People

Research

Thursday, May 4, 2017

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This paper discusses findings from the ethnographic phase of The Talking and Listening to Children (TLC) project, which took place between 2013 and 2015 and explored how social workers communicate with children.

Legal Update: FDAC works to keep families united

Monday, March 28, 2016

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Kamena Dorling, head of policy and programmes at Coram Children's Legal Centre, looks at the role of the Family, Drug and Alcohol Court in keeping children with their families and cost-savings its work can bring.

Foundations sets out priorities

Tuesday, June 27, 2023

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Two experts explain what they hope good practice research body for the children's sector will achieve.

Three trailblazer councils to pilot MacAlister's ‘families first’ plan

Wednesday, August 30, 2023

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Council leaders share early proposals on delivery of the government's Families First for Children scheme designed to ‘test new ways to reform every part of children's social care’ in response to the Care Review.

Oxfordshire’s collaborative model for sustainable change in families

Tuesday, November 30, 2021

| CYP Now

The Care Review’s Case for Change report set out why the children’s social care system needs to provide more support for families.

How Baby Steps helps put new parents on a firm footing

Monday, July 29, 2019

| CYP Now

NSPCC programme sees new parents who may be less likely to access antenatal education receive the support that can transform outcomes for their families.

The policy context on preventing care proceedings