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- Implementation plan for reducing health inequalities in infant mortality: a good practice guide
- All parents to get online reports on their children's progress in school
- Millennium Cohort Study Second Survey: A user's guide to initial findings
- Review of the protection of children from sex offenders
- Tackling Anti-Social Behaviour
- Public attitudes to economic inequality
- Breakthrough Britain. Ending the costs of social breakdown
- Announcement of forthcoming children's plan consultation
- Statistics on civil partnerships
- Law Commission proposes measures to protect cohabiting couples on separation
- Child Support Agency: Implementation of the Child Support Reforms
- Transport Select Committee recommends driving age to rise to 18
- Engaging Parents in Raising Achievement: Do Parents Know They Matter?
- Additional investment in extended schools announced
- Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Bill receives Royal Assent
- Poverty, wealth and place in Britain 1968 to 2005
- Listening to lone parents about childcare
- Make Space Youth Review: Transforming the offer for young people in the UK
- Segregated neighbourhoods and mixed communities: A critical analysis
- Watching, wanting and wellbeing: exploring the links
- Developing social, emotional and behavioural skills in secondary schools
- Government invests in advice and information services for parents
- Parents, carers and schools
- Pensions Bill receives Royal Assent
- Independent review into the use of restraint in child custody
- Working together to support disabled parents
- Sure Start Local Programmes and Domestic Abuse
- Family and Parenting Support in Sure Start Local Programmes
- Understanding the Contribution of Sure Start Local Programmes to the Task of Safeguarding Children's Welfare
- Consultation: Staying Safe
- Securing Sufficient Childcare guidance published
- Sure Start Children's Centres
- Public sector targets to be cut
- Teenage Pregnancy: Improving Outcomes for Teenage Parents and their Children
- UK Government reports to UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
- In work, better off: next steps to full employment
- Aiming high for young people: a ten year strategy for positive activities
- Lone Parent Work Focused Interviews: Synthesis of findings
- Factors influencing social mobility
- Children's Fund secured until 2011
- Hearts and minds: commissioning from the voluntary sector
- Extra funding for Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning programme
- Review of the protection of children from sex offenders
- Barring Consultation: Implementing the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 and the Northern Ireland Order 2007
- Domestic abuse
- Proposed changes to increase the use of physical restraint in secure training centres
- Review of withdrawal of support from families of failed asylum seekers
- Section 58 of Children Act 2004 Review (Consultation)
- Survey find 8 out of 10 children with a learning disability are bullied
- Good Childhood: What you told us about friends
- Understanding Variations in Effectiveness amongst Sure Start Local Programmes
- Promoting speech and language – a themed study in fifteen Sure Start Local Programmes
- Sure Start Children's Centres Parental Satisfaction Survey
- Sure Start and Black and Minority Ethnic Populations
- Conduct disorder in older children and young people: research messages for practice problems
- Findings from Listening to Families research
- Listening to parents of children with disabilities and special educational needs
- Building relationships between parents and carers in early childhood
- White paper sets out support for children in care
- Third Sector Strategy and Action Plan
- Consultation on joint birth registration
- New consultation withdraws plans for opening up family courts
- When Parents Part
- Taxation of the Family
- Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill
- Family Support in Sure Start Children's Centres: Planning, Commissioning and Delivery
- Facing the future: A review of the role of health visitors
- Reaching Out: Think Family
- The links between family learning and parenting programmes: a discussion document for local authorities
- Including New Fathers: A Guide for Maternity Professionals
- Good practice guidance on working with parents with a learning disability
- Severe child poverty in the UK
- A review of poverty dynamics research in the UK
- Welfare Isn't Working: Child Poverty
- The future of work: employers and workforce transformation
- Poor returns: winners and losers in the job market
- Sex, Drugs, Alcohol and Young People: A review of the impact drugs and alcohol have on young people's sexual behaviour
- Evaluation of the Full Service Extended Schools Initiative: Final Report
- Transition Information Sessions (TIS) Demonstration Project - Year One Evaluation
- Tackling low educational achievement
- School Choice and Ethnic Segregation: Educational Decision-making among Black and Minority Ethnic Parents
- School admissions: Fair choice for parents and pupils
- Discrimination Law Review: A Framework for Fairness: Proposals for a Single Equality Bill for Great Britain
- Our shared future
- New Department for Children, Schools and Families
- She simply snapped - she'd had enough: what parents say about bullying
- Teenage mums
- Literature Review: Resilience in Children and Young People
- UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: UK report
- Guidance on abuse linked to a belief in spirit possession
- NSPCC survey on children's experiences of violence
- Court of Appeal rules that social workers do not owe parents a duty of care
- Breastfeeding manifesto backed by over 200 MPs
- Breastfeeding statistics show rise
- Treasury policy review of disabled children announces £340 million settlement
- Letter from ministers promotes Early Support
- New communication support programme in children's centres
- Consultation on duty to improve early years outcomes
- Regulations published on early years targets
- Guidance on the governance of Sure Start Children's Centres and Extended Schools
- ContactPoint: Consultation on draft guidance
- Review of Capacity in the Parenting Support Market
- Mind the gap: Creating a seamless system of support for vulnerable children and families
- Support workers in maternity services: a national scoping study of NHS Trusts providing maternity care in England 2006
- It doesn't happen here: The reality of child poverty in the UK
- Poverty and disadvantage among prisoners' families
- New Deal Plus for Lone Parents qualitative evaluation
- Next steps for child maintenance reform set out
- Welfare Reform Bill receives Royal Assent
- Undervaluing women's work
- Consultation: Administration of Additional Paternity Leave and Pay
- Groups, gangs and weapons
- Debating youth justice: From punishment to problem solving?
- Funds to involve parents in children's early learning
- Duty to respond to parental representations about the provision of schools
- Free after-school activities in extended schools
- Consultation: Guidance on the Duty to Promote Community Cohesion
- Consultation on Home Education Guidelines
- Families with children in Britain: findings from the 2005 Families and Children Study (FACS)
- Children's Commissioner publishes new strategy
- Building on progress: families
- Tailoring parenting to fit the child
- New rules for non-broadcast food and drink advertising to children
- Consultation on childcare registration requirements
- The surest route: early years education and life chances
- Childcare take-up campaign
- Narrowing the gap: the inspection of children's services
- Responses to Care Matters published
- CAMHS funding and priorities
- Decision not yet made about release of sex offender information
- National Academy for Parenting Practitioners contract announced
- Health visitors - an endangered species
- Amicus CPHVA survey reports health visitors have higher workloads
- New maternity strategy published
- Multi-agency working to support pregnant teenagers: A midwifery guide to partnership working with Connexions and other agencies
- Interventions for children at risk of developing antisocial personality disorder
- 53 Family Intervention Projects announced
- New Family Drug and Alcohol Court in London
- Evaluation of the Parentline Plus helpline: key findings
- When ends don't meet: Sustainable livelihoods in Thornaby on Tees
- Treasury select committee urges focus on families in severe poverty
- Poverty and ethnicity in the UK
- Poverty among ethnic groups: How and why does it differ?
- Long-term ill health, poverty and ethnicity
- Child support policy: An international perspective
- Out of work or working below potential – assessing the impact of increasing flexible working opportunities
- Carers get right to request flexible working
- Ethnic minorities in the labour market: Dynamics and diversity
- Time for Change? Personal, social and health education
- Statistics for children excluded from school
- New measures to outlaw discrimination on grounds of religion or sexual orientation
- Equality Duty comes into force
- Latest statistics on family trends published
- Parenting behaviours and children's development from infancy to early childhood: changes, continuities, and contributions
- Statistics for smoking, drinking and drug use among young people in England in 2006
- Children and Young People's Concerns about their Sexual Health and Well-being: Final report to the Scottish Executive
- Abortion bill rejected
- Parenting intervention in Sure Start services for children at risk of developing conduct disorder: pragmatic randomised controlled trial
- Parenting programme for parents of children at risk of developing conduct disorder: cost effectiveness analysis
- NICE Place of Birth consultation
- Independent midwives under threat
- A Better Start: Children and Families with Special Needs and Disabilities in Sure Start Local Programmes
- Early Years Foundation Stage published
- Consultation on School, Early Years and 14-16 Funding 2008-11
- Quality Improvement Project announced
- Consultation on EYFS learning and development exemptions
- Quality of Childcare Settings in the Millennium Cohort Study
- National Evaluation of the Neighbourhood Nurseries Initiative
- Children's Services: CSCI findings 2004-07
- Children's Trust Pathfinders: Innovative Partnerships for Improving the Well-being of Children and Young People
- Children's Workforce Strategy Update - Spring 2007
- Recorded delivery: a national survey of women's experience of maternity care 2006
- Review of maternity care announced
- Relative child poverty increased in 2005/06
- 2007 Budget announced
- Poverty and inequality in the UK: 2007
- Lone parent benefit restrictions proposed
- DWP publishes welfare to work strategy for parents
- Families At Risk: Background on families with multiple disadvantages
- The Poverty Premium: How poor households pay more for essential goods and services
- Work-rich and work-poor: three decades of change
- Tackling worklessness and child poverty in London
- National Minimum wage to rise
- Child development checks proposed to avoid criminality
- Born Unequal: Why we need a progressive pre-birth agenda
- The Corston Report: a review of women with particular vulnerabilities in the criminal justice system
- Liberal Democrat campaign for extended flexible working
- The Lone Parents Pilots: A qualitative evaluation of Quarterly Work Focused Interviews (12+), Work Search Premium and In Work Credit
- Experience of work and job retention among lone parents: An evidence review
- Youth opportunity cards dropped
- Fourth Report: Child Support Reform
- Legal Services Commission: Legal aid and mediation for people involved in family breakdown
- Responses to consultation on opening up family courts
- Legal Services Commission's Strategy for Family Legal Aid
- Cool with change: young people and family change
- Children Beyond Dispute: A Prospective Study of Outcomes from Child Focused and Child Inclusive Post-Separation Family Dispute Resolution
- Guides for professionals working with deaf or visually impaired parents
- Proposals to raise the school leaving age to 18
- New single inspectorate for children and learners
- Consultation on school uniform guidelines
- Moving on up? The way forward
- Community cohesion for children, young people and their families: a rapid review of policy, practice and research in local authorities
- Final Report from Treasury policy review
- Every Parent Matters
- The Well-being of Children in the UK
- Parental care and employment in early childhood
- Conservative Party review of childhood launched
- Report Card 7, Child Poverty in Perspective: An Overview of Child Well-being in Rich Countries
- Review of the Health Inequalities Infant Mortality PSA Target
- Better safe than sorry: preventing unintentional injury to children
- Calls to ChildLine about depression and mental health
- Identifying and exploring young people's experiences of risk, protective factors and resilience to drug use
- Predictive factors for illicit drug use among young people: a literature review
- Report of the APA Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls
- Ofcom publishes final Statement on the television advertising of food and drink products to children
- Survey shows parents prefer Traffic Light scheme for food labelling
- Towards a Public Service Agreement on safeguarding
- Calls to ChildLine about sexual abuse
- Parenting support pilot areas announced
- Health visitor training places cut
- Making It Better for Mother and Baby: Clinical case for change
- New measures to improve support for carers
- Announcements on short breaks for families of disabled children
- NICE issues guidance to help detect and treat women with antenatal and postnatal mental health disorders
- Hidden Harm - Three Years On: Realities, Challenges and Opportunities
- Children's Minister says that all workers should be able to request flexible working
- Childcare sufficiency assessments guidance
- Childcare Act 2006 - Securing Sufficient Childcare: Consultation on Regulations and Guidance
- Children's Centres work with Childminders
- Effective Pre-school and Primary Education 3-11 Project (EPPE 3-11) Influences on Children's Attainment and Progress in Key Stage 2: Cognitive Outcomes in Year 5
- Talking Trusts
- Association of Directors of Children's Services launched
- Attitudes to poverty: Findings from the British Social Attitudes survey
- Understanding attitudes to poverty in the UK: getting the public's attention
- Further conditionality on lone parent benefits proposed
- Child support and work incentives: A literature review
- Reaching Out: Progress on Social Exclusion
- Fairness and Freedom; The Final Report of the Equalities Review
- Supporting Parents of Teenagers
- Bridging into Family Support: Youth transitions and social change
- Building on the best: overview of local authority youth services 2005/06
- Teenage pregnancy statistics for 2005 published
- The Manchester Transition Project: Implications for the Development of Parental Involvement in Primary Schools
- Bridging into Family Support: Locality, School and Social Capital
- Bridging into Family Support: Transnational Families
- Fall in UK marriages
- Local authorities now required to provide positive activities for young people
- Growing up matters: better transition planning for younger people with complex needs
- The Response of Child Protection Practices and Procedures to Children Exposed to Domestic Violence or Parental Substance Misuse
- Supporting Young Fathers: Examples of Promising Practice
- Toolkit for Reaching Priority and Excluded Families
- Making Connections: A guide for Voluntary and Community Sector organisations working with families
- Local Authorities sign up to be Respect Areas
- Cuts in maternity services reported
- How Small Children Make a Big Difference
- Use of anti-social behaviour powers
- Are we all working too hard? Women, men, and changing attitudes to employment
- Employers working to reduce gender pay gap
- Holiday entitlement to increase
- Annual Review of the Children and Young People's Plan (supplementary guidance 2007)
- Childcare costs
- Young children and their services:developing a European approach
- Consultation on Exemption from Ofsted Childcare Registration
- The state of social care in England 2005-06
- No exemption for faith-based adoption agencies from the new sexual orientation regulations
- Tackling Child Obesity - First Steps
- Children and Safeguarding: Children's Views for the DfES Priority Review
- Children's Consultation on the Children's Index: A Children's Views Report
- Young People's experience of adult mental health facilities
- Consultation on Safeguarding Children from Abuse linked to a Belief in Spirit Possession
- Protocol for Managing Serious Incidents established
- Schools Admissions Code before Parliament
- Extended Schools: Improving Access to Sexual Health Advice Services
- Policy Review of Children and Young People
- Comprehensive spending review 2007: What it needs to deliver on child poverty
- Guidance on Acceptable Behaviour Contracts published
- Child inclusion as a principle and as evidence-based practice: Applications to family law services and related sectors
- Effects of a School-Based, Early Childhood Intervention on Adult Health and Well-being
- 2006 Childcare and Early Years Providers Surveys
- Cost Benefit Analysis of Interventions with Parents
- Listening to black and minority ethnic parents about childcare
- Disabled children and child poverty
- Influences on Children's Development and Progress in Key Stage 2: Social/behavioural outcomes in Year 5
- Every Child's Future Matters
- Department of Health to pilot new child growth standards to encourage breastfeeding
- Parenting and resilience
- Barriers to inclusion and successful engagement of parents in mainstream services
- Understanding fatherhood
- Parenting and outcomes for children
- Parenting and ethnicity
- Children's views and experiences of parenting
- The relationship between parenting and poverty
- Market for Disabled Children's Services - A Review
- Obesity and Public Policy: Thinking clearly and treading carefully
- Getting on well: enjoying, achieving and contributing
- Changes in Children's Cognitive Development at the Start of School in England 2000-2006
- Government Exceeds Extended Schools' Target
- Government announces £4bn for Sure Start, Early Years and Childcare
- Systematic review of the effectiveness of interventions to promote mental wellbeing in children in primary education: Report 1: Universal Approaches
- Young mothers not in learning: A qualitative study of barriers and attitudes
- Emphasis on Parenting Welcome
- Cartoon heroes and villains
- Socio-Economic Status and Child Behaviour: Evidence from a contemporary UK cohort
- Freedom to be a child: Commercial pressures on children
- Welfare Reforms and Child Well-Being in the US and UK
- Family and friends care
- Guidance issued to doctors on their responsibilities to children
- Sole and joint birth registration: Exploring the circumstances, choices and motivations of unmarried parents
- Little support for breastfeeding in English hospitals
- Carer's Allowance wage exemption increased
- Review into children and new technologies
- Reducing Inequalities: realising the talents of all
- Listening to parents of disabled children about childcare
- Evaluation of the Childcare Taster Pilot and Extended Schools Childcare Pilot Programmes: Final Report on Qualitative Research into Implementation
- Family Support in Extended Schools: Planning, Commissioning and Delivery
- Religion and Parenting Practices: a research review
- Pakistani and Bangladeshi women's attitudes to work and family
- Pilots to fund positive activities for disadvantaged young people
- Partnership transitions and mothers' employment
- A child's-eye view of social difference
- Children researching links between poverty and literacy
- Education and poverty: A critical review of theory, policy and practice
- Educational relationships outside school: Why access is important
- Bullying guidance issued
- Parent Support Advisor Pilot: First interim report from the evaluation
- What is the impact and cost implication of extending the free early education entitlement? Final Report
- What do we know about children's use of online technologies? A report on data availability and research gaps in Europe
- Comparing Children's Online Activities and Risks across Europe: A Preliminary Report Comparing Findings for Poland, Portugal and UK
- Public consultation on children's services
- Youth Inclusion and Support Panels: Preventing Crime and Antisocial Behaviour
- Review into children's speech, language and communications services
- Adding up: The range and impact of school costs on families
- Analysis of pupil mobility and deprivation in London
- Listen up! Person-centred approaches to help young people experiencing mental health and emotional problems
- One-off grant to pregnant women announced
- Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services review - call for evidence
- Minister launches fund to support parents
- Pilots of 16-18 care
- Engaging effectively with Black and minority ethnic parents in children's and parental services
- Child maintenance: The eligible population in Great Britain
- Child Poverty Unit set up
- Comprehensive Spending Review and Pre-Budget report
- Disability and caring among families with children
- Health, disability, caring and employment
- The use and impact of dispersal orders: Sticking plasters and wake-up calls
- The "Family - Nurse Partnership": developing an instrument for identification, assessment and recruitment of clients
- Government response to Facing the Future: a review of the role of health visitors
- Hoodie or goodie?
- The State of London's Children Report
- London lone parents' choices around work and care
- Focus on Families, 2007 edition
- Legal Services Commission: Legal aid and mediation for people involved in family breakdown
- Lone parents and 'mini-jobs'
- Opportunity for all: Indicators update 2007
- Ofsted annual report
- Tax credits: Getting it wrong?
- Families and Neighbourhoods
- Attachment to place: Social networks, mobility and prospects of young people
- An evaluation of two initiatives to reward young people
- Primary Review: Community Soundings report
- Chairs of independent review of restraint in juvenile custody announced
- Food in schools: encouraging healthy eating
- Government response to the Public Accounts Committee report on the child support reforms
- New guidance on school uniforms
- Further investment in Children's Centres
- Childcare nation?
- Children's centres: ensuring that families most in need benefit
- Moving towards integrated working
- Outcomes for disabled children
- Outcomes for parents with disabled children
- Still home alone? Developing 'next generation' care for older children
- The impact of early cognitive and non-cognitive skills on later outcomes
- Government response to the Public Accounts Committee report on Sure Start Children's Centres
- Government response to the Public Accounts Committee report on tackling anti-social behaviour
- Report from review of Section 58 of the Children Act
- Changes to government structures relating to young people and families
- Full employment and world class skills: Responding to the challenges
- Growing together, or drifting apart? Children with disabilities and their parents' relationship
- Risk and childhood
- Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006: Independent Safeguarding Authority Scheme Consultation
- Dealing with child contact issues: A literature review of mechanisms in different jurisdictions
- Stepfamilies: Understanding and responding effectively
- Raising the bar, closing the gap
- Increase in long hours working
- Marketing of unhealthy foods to children: How TV advertising restrictions are failing children
- Launch of joint youth justice unit
- BBC poll on family life
- Living with hardship 24/7: the diverse experiences of families in poverty in England
- Carers, Employment and Services: time for a new social contract?
- Survey of relationship breakdown and child maintenance: Interim report
- The longer term outcomes of in court conciliation
- State of Children's Rights in England
- Seen and heard: Reclaiming the public realm with children and young people
- Government seeks to extend right to request flexible working
- Improving health, supporting justice: a consultation
- Language and Social Exclusion
- Parental Learning Disability and Children's Needs: Family Experiences and Effective Practice
- Multisystemic Therapy pilot project
- Parenting Services: Parents' Perspectives
- Raising the Participation Age in Education and Training to 18: Review of Existing Evidence of the Benefits and Challenges
- NSPCC finds computer retailers unhelpful on child safety
- Consultation: Draft guidance to local authorities and registered social landlords on the use of parenting orders and parenting contracts
- Parenting, caring and educating
- Children's lives outside school and their educational impact
- Consultation: Childcare Act 2006: Future Approach to Fees and Subsidies
- Children's health, our future: A review of progress against the National Service Framework for Children, Young People and Maternity Services 2004
- Children and Young People Today: evidence to support the development of the Children's Plan
- Making ContactPoint work
- ContactPoint database postponed
- When will we be heard? Advocacy provision for disabled children and young people in England
- This is who we are: A study of the experiences of Rroma, Gypsy and Traveller children throughout England
- The Pursuit of Permanence: A Case Study of the English Care System
- Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill
- Education and Skills Bill
- Free childcare entitlement to be extended to 15 hours
- Children and Young Persons Bill
- New restrictions on marketing infant formula milk
- Using the FRS to examine employment trends of couples
- Parents can help keep children at school - but the teenagers have to be offered much better opportunities
- Parenting support and intervention works
- Families and Neighbourhoods
- Lessons from the frontline on attracting parents into crucial family support services
- Narrowing the gap between rich and poor must involve schools, families and communities
- Family and Parenting Institute reaction to Conservative Social Justice Group report
- Every family needs health visitors
- Health visitors could be key to identifying and preventing child obesity
- Home visits are key for early intervention
- The Family and Parenting Institute comments on Tony Blair's record for families
- Post code lottery for health visitor services despite parents giving them an overwhelming mandate
- Family and Parenting Institute on 2007 Budget
- We need a major cultural shift in how we view our children
- Health visiting is key to effective family support
- Exciting new publication from the Family and Parenting Institute
- Family and Parenting Institute on CSA White Paper
- Marriage alone won't deliver family stability
- PC2006
- New Director of Development Appointed
- Meet the Parents - Liberal Democrat leader to Meet the Parents
- Mori Poll Results
- Therapeutic Services Vital For Looked After Children
- The Time For The Debate On
- Health visitors key to tackle social exclusion
- Cash for family services not crystal ball needed to turn lives around
- Education Minister 'Meets the Parents' to set out this Government's Vision For The Family
- NFPI Warns Parents on Ofcom's Junk Food Ad Proposals
- David Cameron 'Meets The Parents'
- Babies and Bosses: Reconciling Work and Family Life. A synthesis of findings for OECD countries
- The Third Work-Life Balance Employer Survey: Main Findings
- ChildLine Casenotes: Calls to ChildLine about running away and homelessness
- Women's financial assets and debts
- Monitoring poverty and social exclusion 2007
- Growing up in a material world: Charter on commercialisation
- Recent changes in intergenerational mobility in Britain
- Review of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services announced
- Conservative party sets out policy on lone parents
- Working conditions in the European Union: the gender perspective
- Unequal weight: equity oriented policy responses to the global obesity epidemic
- Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Act 2007 - relevant third party
- Childcare for adult learners in further education
- Treasury Committee First Report: The 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review
- Government sets out plans to get lone parents into work
- Restorative justice to be piloted for young offenders
- New inquiry into risks from internet and video games
- Children on care standards
- Care in a New Welfare Society: Unpaid care, welfare and employment
- After the bell: Out of school activities for children and young people
- Consultations relating to immigration and to forced marriage
- Tackling overcrowding in England: An action plan
- Out of Pocket : A survey of carers' lost earnings
- The Children's Plan: building brighter futures
- Local Authorities and schools need to be able to listen to parents more effectively rather than just telling them what to do
- Carers likely to get protection from discrimination
- Prison Mother and Baby Units - do they meet the best interests of the child?
- Daycare Trust annual childcare costs survey
- Home Access to Technology consultation
- Mothers' participation in paid work: the role of 'mini-jobs'
- British Social Attitudes Survey
- Is poverty in the UK a denial of people's human rights?
- Think Family: Improving the life chances of families at risk
- Extra funding for maternity services
- 'Hard to reach families: engagement in the voluntary and community sector
- New action on runaway children
- Healthy weight, healthy lives strategy
- Like any other child? Children and families in the asylum process
- More ball games: The childhood review
- Conservative welfare reform policies
- The difference a dad makes
- How well are they doing? The impact of children's centres and extended schools
- The longer-term outcomes associated with families who had worked with Intensive Family Support Projects
- Working Out of Poverty: A study of the low paid and the 'working poor'
- Pilot scheme for two year old children: evaluation of outreach approaches
- Parenting Early Intervention Pathfinder evaluation
- Children's well-being in primary school: Pupil and school effects
- Secondary School Admissions
- The Border and Immigration Agency code of practice for keeping children safe from harm - consultation
- Healthcare Commission maternity services review
- Pathfinder areas for short breaks for disabled children
- Pilot areas announced for Targeted Mental Health in Schools
- Analysing child deaths and serious injury through abuse: what can we learn?
- Children on bullying
- Educational inequality and juvenile crime: an area-based analysis
- Duty to provide information, advice and assistance: Guidance for local authorities
- Staying Safe: Action Plan
- Review of sex and relationships education
- Developing father-inclusive parenting strategies
- Draft core offer for disabled children
- Make me a criminal: preventing youth crime
- New plans to tackle underage drinking
- Information sharing on child sex offenders
- The structure and content of English primary education: international perspectives
- ContactPoint data security review
- Capital gains: London Child Poverty Commission final report
- Family group conferencing in Australia 15 years on
- Teenage pregancy statistics released
- Local authorities invited to bid for play facilities funding
- Childhood wellbeing: qualitative research study
- The Good Childhood Inquiry: lifestyle
- Living on the edge of despair: destitution amongst asylum seeking and refugee children
- Select Committee inquiry into carers
- Government announces plans to recruit 4,000 midwives
- National breastfeeding helpline launched
- Revised Children Act guidance on court orders
- Budget not enough for families
- Byron Review welcomed
- The best start in life? Alleviating deprivation, improving social mobility, and eradicating child poverty
- Parent Know-How programme launched
- Child Health Promotion Programme: pregnancy and the first five years of life - updated
- Father-inclusive practice and associated professional competencies
- The Impact of Sure Start Local Programmes on Three Year Olds and Their Families
- Interim report: Review of services for children and young people (0-19) with speech, language and communication needs
- The Public Value Of Social Housing: A longitudinal analysis of the relationship between housing and life chances
- Youth Taskforce Action Plan
- The Use of Restraint in Secure Training Centres
- Local authorities to be required to provide short breaks for disabled children
- Drugs: protecting families and communities: The 2008 drugs strategy
- Conservative party announces plans for more health visitors and for flexible parental leave
- Byron review report: Safer children in a digital world
- Budget 2008 and child poverty strategy
- Marital splits and income changes over the longer term
- A model of intervention in childhood
- Keeping them in the family: Outcomes for abused and neglected children placed with family or friends carers through care proceedings
- The New Deal for Lone Parents, Lone Parent Work Focused Interviews and Working Families' Tax Credit: A review of impacts
- Evaluation of pilot programme of the Integrated Children's System: Disability study
- Aiming high for young people implementation strategy
- Education-related parenting contracts evaluation
- NICE guidance: Improving the nutrition of pregnant and breastfeeding mothers and children in low-income households
- Forced marriage, family cohesion and community engagement: national learning through a case study of Luton
- Providing for children and young people's play and informal recreation: Supplementary planning guidance
- First report: Children and Young Person's Bill
- Ensuring Equality: The black and minority ethnic childcare workforce
- Multi-professional working: distinct professional identities in multi-professional teams
- Piggy in the middle child gets best of both worlds
- Keeping it in the family: growing up with parents who misuse alcohol
- The impact of benefit and tax uprating on incomes and poverty
- Breakthrough London: Ending the costs of social breakdown
- Care proceedings reforms
- Children's Plan implementation pack
- Children's workforce strategy
- Assessing the impact of the commercial world on children's wellbeing - a call for evidence
- Second Report: The Department for Children, Schools and Families and the Children's Plan
- Play strategy out for consultation
- Maternal and infant health in the perinatal period: the father's role
- For Love or Money: Pay, progression and professionalisation in the 'early years' workforce
- Jobcentre Plus and Children's Centres
- Mental wellbeing of children in primary education: Promoting children's social and emotional wellbeing in primary education
- Children of prisoners - maintaining family ties
- Good practice guidance for the providers of social networking and other user interactive services 2008
- Social Trends 38
- Statutory Guidance for Children's Trusts on the Duty to Cooperate: consultation
- Report on Working Families Helpline 2007
- Child Support Agency replacement set out in White Paper
- Child benefit to be paid from the 29th week of pregnancy
- Reports published to strengthen the role of the third sector
- Welfare to Work review launched
- Revised Sure Start Children's Centres Practice Guidance
- Out of Reach: Benefits for disabled children
- Conservative Party releases 'Breakdown Britain' report
- Consultation on quality standards for young people's information, advice and guidance
- Council of Europe encourages positive parenting
- Sure Start Centres
- Empowering Parents in Sure Start Local Programmes
- Career interruptions and labour market outcomes
- Employment transitions over the life cycle: a statistical analysis
- Employment transitions over the life cycle: a literature review
- Impact of Care to Learn. Tracking the Destinations of Young Parents Funded in 2004/05
- Beyond refuge: supporting young runaways
- Monitoring poverty and social exclusion in the UK 2006
- Tackling Child Poverty in London: A guide to borough initiatives and good practice
- Understanding Online Social Network Services and Risks to Youth
- The Commercialisation of Childhood
- Anti-Social Behaviour Orders statistics
- Network of parenting experts announced
- Local authorities and primary care trusts invited to trial health-led parenting support
- Pathfinder project to look at boarding provision for vulnerable children and young people
- Leaflet on extended schools and health services working together
- Roll-out of Healthy Start scheme
- Ofcom response to consultation on advertising unhealthy food to children
- Childcare Act 2006
- Children and Adoption Act 2006
- Police and Justice Act 2006
- Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act
- Work and Families Act 2006
- Outreach and Home Visiting in Sure Start Local Programmes
- Neighbourhood play and community action
- Anti-Social Behaviour Orders: A summary of research into Anti-Social Behaviour Orders given to young people between January 2004 and January 2005
- How Helping Works: towards a shared model of practice
- Extended Services in Primary Schools in 2006
- Delivering on Child Poverty: what would it take?
- Childcare Today: A progress report on the Government's Ten-year Childcare Strategy
- Against the Odds
- Forgotten Families: The needs and experiences of grandparents who care for children whose parents misuse drugs and alcohol
- Supporting disabled parents and parents with additional support needs
- Hidden lives: Unidentified young carers in the UK
- Bullying and truancy report 2006
- It's Not Too Much To Ask
- Freedom's Orphans: Raising youth in a changing world
- Children's Databases - Safety and Privacy: A report for the Information Commissioner
- Protecting Children's Personal Information: ICO Issues Paper
- The Food Fables report
- The Disabled Child Project: Evaluation Report
- Green Paper - Care Matters: Transforming the Lives of Children and Young People in Care
- Parenting support guidance and online database launched
- Consultation on Section 12 of the Childcare Act
- Work-related activity benefit for lone parents
- Sure Start Children's Centres reach 1000
- Sure Start delivery contract awarded
- Early Years Foundation Stage consultation response
- Funding for workplace nurseries
- Report from Parliamentary Hearings on services for disabled children
- Opportunity for All Eighth Annual Report
- New guidance for Parental Compensation Orders
- Poll shows influence of TV parenting programmes
- Making the Grade? 2007: The third annual independent analysis of UK Government initiatives on violence against women
- London child poverty working group set up
- More specialist domestic violence courts announced
- Stress and resilience factors in parents with mental health problems and their children
- Social Networking: A quantitative and qualitative research report into attitudes, behaviours and use
- Hard knock life. Violence against women: a guide for donors and funders
- Care profiling study
- Funding programme for youth facilities launched
- Little Britons: Financing childcare choice
- Supporting parents to engage in their child's early learning
- FPI CHIEF EXEC GETS HONORARY DOCTORATE
- Multi million pound boost to parenting services
- The circumstances of persistently poor families with children: Evidence from the Families and Children Study (FACS)
- Consultation on care and support for older and disabled people
- Tax credits: improving delivery and choice - a discussion paper
- The effects of taxes and benefits on household income, 2005/06
- Families with children in Britain: findings from the 2006 Families and Children Study (FACS)
- Measures to help disabled children
- Joint working between Housing and Children's Services: Preventing homelessness and tackling its effects on children and young people
- Analysis of children and young people's plans 2007
- Evaluating the early impact of integrated children's services
- Right to request flexible working to be extended to parents of under-16s
- Ten years of Labour's youth justice reforms: an independent audit
- Multi-dimensional treatment foster care pilots for 7-11 year olds
- Draft legislative programme
- E-learning resources on poverty, parenting and social exclusion
- Welfare Reform in the United States: Implications for British Social Policy
- Childcare and Early Years Survey 2007 - Parents' Use, Views and Experiences
- Statistics on ASBOs and other measures released
- Consultation on the extension of the British Crime Survey to cover under-16s
- Understanding cohabitation: A critical study of the living together as husband and wife rule in UK social security law
- Departmental Report 2008
- Children's views on advocacy
- 'Must knows' for lead members of children's services
- Back on Track: A strategy for modernising alternative provision for young people
- Second thoughts on the family
- Implementation and second-year impacts for lone parents in the UK Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) demonstration
- Keeping mum
- Family pathfinder programme
- Parental Involvement in Children's Education 2007
- Consultation: The Social Security (Lone parents and miscellaneous amendments) Regulations 2008
- Developing an effective response to neglect and emotional harm to children
- Experiences of children and young people caring for a parent with a mental health problem
- The state of the children's social care workforce
- Media literacy audit: Report on UK childrens' media literacy
- FPI CHIEF EXEC GETS OBE
- Tackling health inequalities: 2007 status report on the programme for action
- Youth Alcohol Action Plan
- The Byron Review action plan
- Disabled children: numbers, characteristics and local service provision
- Housing and disabled children
- Think research: Using research evidence to inform service development for vulnerable groups
- Parenting 'mixed' children: negotiating difference and belonging in mixed race, ethnicity and faith families
- Just Care? A fresh approach to adult services
- "I can't tell people what is happening at home"
- Households Below Average Income (HBAI) 1994/95-2006/07
- Employment transitions and the changes in economic circumstances of families with children: Evidence from the Families and Children Study
- Funding extension for the Parenting Fund
- Framework for a Fairer Future - the Equality Bill
- New pilot projects aim to help families in poverty
- Domestic violence, forced marriage and "honour"-based violence
- Carers at the heart of 21st century families and communities: a caring system on your side, a life of your own
- Parent Support Adviser pilot evaluation: Second interim report
- Health Inequalities: Progress and Next Steps
- Government reponse to the Work and Pensions committee report on child poverty
- Government response to select committee report on the Children and Young Persons Bill
- UK Children's Commissioners' report to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
- Children's Rights Alliance for England report to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
- Transistion Information Sessions: Year two evaluation
- Parents on council care
- Draft Charter for Bereaved People
- Determinants of aspirations
- Supporting parents in promoting early learning: The evaluation of the Early Learning Partnership Project
- Maternity rights and mothers' employment decisions
- Survey of Parents in England 2008
- SUCCESSFUL PARENTING SERVICES GET EXTRA CASH
- LISTEN TO MOTHER ON PAYDAY - THE EQUALITY BILL
- CHARITIES HAVE COUNCILS' MISSING SKILLS
- Criminal damage: Why we should lock up fewer children
- Young runaways action plan
- Second great parenting experiment - effects of media-based delivery of parenting advice
- Reforming the legal aid family barrister fee scheme
- Delivering the government response to the Corston Report
- Joint birth registration: recording responsibility
- MUM'S NOT THE WORD
- Local authorities choose priorities for targets
- RISE IN REPOSSESSIONS COULD LEAD TO FAMILY ROWS
- OVERCROWDED FAMILY HOMES HAVE A NEGATIVE EFFECT ON CHILDREN'S LIVES
- Influences on attainment in primary school: Interactions between child, family and school contexts
- Anti-social and other problem behaviours among young children: findings from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children
- Behaviour Review: Paper 3
- Government investment in communication following Bercow review.
- Centre for Excellence and Outcomes launched
- Childcare and early years providers survey 2007
- Breakdown of childcare funding announced
- Delivering the Children's Plan - Strengthening Children's Trusts: legislative options
- The UK Child Trust Fund: A successful launch
- Supporting the development of children and young people's plans (CYPPs): the case-study data
- Daycare Trust holiday childcare costs survey
- European court judgement means new rights for carers
- Drug use, smoking and drinking among young people in England 2007
- Consultation on 'Working Better'
- Family Intervention Projects: An evaluation of their design, set-up and early outcomes
- Nurse-Family Partnership Programme: First year pilot sites implementation in England
- Forced marriage statutory guidance: Consultation paper
- Towards better births: A review of maternity services in England
- A minimum income standard for Britain: what people think
- Parenting Early Intervention Pathfinder evaluation: Final report
- Voluntary and community sector services: Their role in supporting parents and families
- Safeguarding Children
- Schools' role in promoting pupil well-being - draft guidance for consultation
- Children's and young people's experiences of domestic violence involving adults in a parenting role
- Aiming High for Disabled Children: short breaks implementation guidance
- Surveys of customer perceptions of parents, young people and the general public
- Teenage parents: who cares? A guide to commissioning and delivering maternity services for young parents
- Transition Informations Sessions demonstration project 2006-08: Lessons learned report
- Teenage Pregnancy Independent Advisory Group Annual Report 2007/08
- Women and poverty: experiences, empowerment and engagement
- Youth Crime Action Plan
- Improving the mental health and psychological well-being of children and young people: National CAMHS Review Interim Report
- New Deal for Carers: Task Force reports
- Review of conditionality in the welfare system
- No one written off: reforming welfare to reward responsibility
- International review of leave policies and related research 2008
- The role of the Lead Member for Children's Services
- Parenting in ordinary families: diversity, complexity and change
- Children talking to ChildLine about family relationship problems
- Funding for hospitals to help mothers breastfeed
- Teachers concerned at influence of brands and logos on children
- Children's care monitor 2008
- Valuing and supporting carers
- Leading to excellence: a review of childcare and early education provision 2005–08
- Debate on the future of the Compact
- Counting the costs
- Relationship separation and child support study
- Exploring disability, family formation and break-up: Reviewing the evidence
- Influences on children's cognitive and social development in Year 6
- The National Child Measurement Programme Guidance for PCTs
- Consultation on implementing the extension of the right to request flexible working to parents of older children
- Homes fit for families: an evidence review
- The effects of benefit sanctions on lone parents' employment decisions and moves into employment
- Discussion paper on prison mother and baby units
- The importance of social worlds: An investigation of peer relations
- 'Fun and freedom': What children say about play in a sample of Play Strategy consultations
- Childhood Poverty and Adult Health
- Health consequences of poverty for children
- Summary justice: fast - but fair?
- Poverty and inequality and children
- Dr Tanya Byron has become a trustee of the Family and Parenting Institute
- Spouses and civil partners to receive more when partner dies without leaving a will
- Every department to make three year funding the norm for third sector organisations
- Going places
- This is child poverty
- Cafcass health and wellbeing review: The experiences of young people in care
- Consultation: A new way of handling parents' complaints about school issues
- Funding for computers and broadband for low-income families
- Couldn't care less
- Outcomes of applications to court for contact orders after parental separation or divorce
- Youth Crime Action Plan funding announced
- Health of Britain: Perspectives on nutrition 2008
- Free childcare for low-income parents undertaking training
- Pilot of free school meals for primary school children
- UK lifts reservations to UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
- Parent Know How Service Directory
- The media, poverty and public opinion in the UK
- As long as it takes: a new politics for children
- Breakthrough Britain: The next generation
- Change4Life campaign against childhood obesity launched
- A guide to creating successful play spaces
- Private fostering: Some views from privately fostered children on the government's proposals about private fostering
- Sex offender disclosure pilot launched
- UK national report on strategies for Social Protection and Social Inclusion
- Consultation: Legislating for Sure Start Children's Centres
- Development of a survey on services for disabled children
- Video games consultation
- Reports from seminar on developing guidelines for child-friendly justice
- Problematic contact after separation and divorce? A national survey of parents
- Early intervention: Good parents, great kids, better citizens
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