Introduction

Three key priorities have been selected for focus under the Families, Parents and Carers theme are:

• Improving the safety, health and wellbeing of children through improving the physical and mental health of mothers, fathers and carers
• Improving children’s outcomes by supporting parental and carer couple relationships and reducing conflict within families, including domestic violence
• Improving children’s and young people’s achievement, behavioural and emotional outcomes through effective support and intervention with mothers, fathers and carers of 7-19 year olds
• Work under the theme is guided by a Theme Advisory Group (TAG), which met for the first time in October 2009.

Key Milestones for the Theme

• Research reviews for all three priorities will be published in October 2010
• Sector specialists will be trained and ready to provide tailored support to local authorities from June 2010
• Regional knowledge workshops to share learning about ‘what works’ will be held in September/October 2010
• Knowledge reviews which include examples of validated local practice will be completed in March 2011
• Regional capacity building progression events will be held in February/March 2011

Theme Advisory Groups (TAGs)

The work on this theme is shaped and guided by a Theme Advisory Group. Click here for more information about theme advisory groups and the membership for this theme.

The theme chair is Dr Deborah Absalom, Director of Children and Young People’s Services in the London Borough of Bexley, and the theme lead is Joanne Kellett, Research Fellow at the Family and Parenting Institute.

More information

For more information about this theme contact Joanne Kellett or read our Priority work themes document (43kb PDF file, 13 pages).

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Publications

A suite of publications will be released when the research has been conducted.

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Presentations

The presentations from the events will be published once the event for this theme have taken place.

For more information about the events visit the events page or for details of when the presentations have been released, sign up to receive email updates.

Events

About local practice examples

As with all C4EO themes, C4EO recognises that not all useful knowledge about ‘what works’ and why, is to be found in research reports and papers. We are therefore keen to hear about practice that is leading to significantly improved outcomes for children, young people and their families.

We will incorporate validated local practice examples into our full reviews on what works, which will be shared with other decision-makers in the children’s services field. We will also include them as a special body of evidence on this website.

To be validated, practice examples need to be supported by some evidence which shows the outcomes and changes that have been achieved.

Submitting effective local practice

If you would like to submit an example of effective local practice, please:

1. Signup to the C4EO website if you haven't already
2. login and complete the local practice online submission form.

Alternatively you can:

1. Download a copy of the local practice submission form (77Kb Word file, 6 pages)
2. Send your completed form to C4EOTeam@NFER.ac.uk.

Further information

• Further information about validated local practice (87Kb Word file, 3 pages)
• Guidance on how to complete the submission form and the validation process (47Kb PDF file, 4 pages)

If you have any queries regarding validated local practice, please do not hesitate to contact Monica Hetherington at NFER via C4EOTeam@nfer.ac.uk

Interactive data

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We currently have data at National, Regional and Local Authority level. We are loading information at Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) as it becomes available. At the moment IDACI 2007, NI 152, NI 116 and other indices of deprivation are available at LSOA level (accessible by double-clicking the chosen local authority in the Child Poverty maps).

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