
Government Green paper
Family and Parenting Institute's response to the Government's green paper
Who we are
Many people and organisations make our work possible.
Our staff
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CEO's Office
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Dr. Katherine Rake OBE- Chief Executive
- PA to CEO - Ann Hanmore
Communications
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Lucy Lloyd joined Family and Parenting Institute in October 2005 as Director of Communications. Previously, she worked inside Government as Head of Communications for Sure Start at the Department for Education and Skills (2002-4) and until 2002 she was Deputy Director at Daycare Trust, the national childcare charity, running the charity's research and policy programme and the successful consultancy service. Lucy studied at Cambridge University (social anthropology) and later at LSE (MSc in social policy and voluntary sector organisation). She is Chair of Governors at Kate Greenaway Nursery School and Children's Centre in King's Cross, London; and a member of the board of trustees at 4Children, the national children's charity. She has a special interest in early years policy; work/life balance; and building user participation into service planning.
Sally Gimson joined the FPI as Campaigns Officer in November 2006. Sally has a degree in French and German. Her career started in news journalism. She worked for the European, the Observer and the Sunday Telegraph in London, and was a translator and producer for Deutsche Welle's english language TV news service in Berlin. At the FPI she has run a high profile campaign in support of health visitors and has worked with other voluntary organisations to highlight the problems around some reality TV parenting programmes. She is a school governor at a primary school in Camden and chair of governors at the Royal Free Hospital Children's School.
- Administrator - Swati Patel
- Development Officer - Sophie Linington
- Info & Website Manager - Suzie Peleg
- Press & PR Manager - Ben Miller
- Publications Manager - Sarah Roberts and Ruth Lawrence
- Campaigns Officer - Jo Sharp
Development and Innovation
- Director - vacant
- Senior Manager Parenting Fund - Mick Morgan
- Head of Fundraising – Vacant
- Fundraising Officer - Carly Buckley
- Grants Officer - Kendra Massey
- Grants Officer - Tess Rallison
- Grants Officer – Anna Thomas
- Administrator - Dave Ferris
Finance & Operations
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Mary King joined FPI as Director of Finance and Operations in January 2001. She is responsible for the Finance, Information Technology, Personnel and Administrative functions within the FPI. She has a Diploma in Charity Accounting from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and a Post-graduate Diploma in Charity Finance from South Bank University. She is also a member of the Charity Finance Directors' Group. She has worked in the voluntary sector for many years and before joining FPI she worked for Medical Aid for Palestinians as their Director of Finance and Administration with responsibility for deputizing for the Chief Executive.
- HR Consultant - Roger Bentley
- Finance Officer - Peter Boyse
- Finance Officer - Beth Haile
- IT Manager - Jon Freedman
- Office Manager - Matt Evans
- Receptionist - Eleanor Butler
Research & Policy
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Clem Henricsonis a social policy analyst who has specialised in investigating the relationship between the state and the family. She has a particular interest in human and children's rights and has assessed the Government's family policy from a social rights perspective in Government and Parenting, 2000, and the interaction between child and family policy in The Child and Family Policy Divide, 2004. She supervised the work of the Commission into Families and the Wellbeing of Children, which reported on the respective role of state and family in 2005. Clem Henricson has researched family services in England and Wales, and has developed a model for the future of family services which has been instrumental in shaping government strategic planning in this area. She has led a multi - stage national programme for parent support in schools, involving pilots, evaluation and feasibility assessments. She also serves on government and academic advisory committees concerned with family policy.- Administrator - Sarie Keating
- Administrator – Alex Kaley
Anne Page FRSA is responsible for policy development, policy projects and parliamentary work. She is the author of a new FPI research report about partnerships between schools and parents. She recently led a DCSF funded 2-year demonstration project and rollout of a new initiative to promote engaging with parents in schools. Previously she worked at the NHS West London Health Promotion Agency and as a freelance writer and consultant for the education & health services. She has written numerous articles on parenting, child development and health and been a regular contributor to radio. She co-edited 'Changing Minds', published by Gaskell Press, a self-help book for families affected by mental health issues. She worked for thirteen years as a lecturer in further education, where she set up Student Services in two colleges and pioneered counselling courses in the 1980s. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Arts..
Publications
Page, A. with Das, S., Mangeibeira, W. and Natale, L., School-Parent Partnerships, Family and Parenting Institute, autumn 2008
Page, A., Transition Information Sessions: Learning from the demonstration projects 2007-2008, Department for Children, Schools and Families Research Report DCSF-RW055, 2008
Page, A., with Alexander, T., Pick, R. and Coleman, J., Parent Information Point Toolkit, Family and Parenting Institute, 2003
Page, A, Changing Times: support for parents in pregnancy, at birth and in the first two years, Institute for Public Policy Research & Family and Parenting Institute, 2002
Page, A., with Henricson, C., Parent Information Sessions in Schools: A Feasibility Study, Family and Parenting Institute, 2002
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Policy Adviser - Carena Rogers
Andrew Carruthersjoined the Family and Parenting Institute in September 2009 as a Policy Officer. Previously he has worked as a solicitor in private practice and at the Independent Television Commission and Ofcom, focusing on media literacy, television advertising and programme policy and compliance.
Educational background:
LLB Law, University of Nottingham
Contact
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Senior Research Fellow - Joanna Apps
Key publications
- Couple relationships - June 2009
- 'Hard to Reach' Families- January 2008
- Evaluating evaluations - June 2007
- Attachment and the Perils of Parenting - April 2006
- UK Family Trends 1994-2004 - November 2004
- Parenting Programmes for Families at Risk - December 2003
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Senior Research Fellow - Shuby Puthussery
Dr Shuby Puthussery joined the Family and Parenting Institute as a Senior Research Fellow in January 2007. Her training and research background is in Social Work and Public Health. Before joining the Institute, Shuby was a Research Officer at City University, London where she took the lead in conducting a project on the maternity care experiences of UK- born ethnic minority women. In her previous positions at Universities in Germany, Sweden, India and Nepal, Shuby has managed and conducted research projects in the areas of maternal and reproductive health, family and child welfare, and mental health. Currently, Shuby is also a visiting Research Fellow in the Families and Social Capital Research Group at London South Bank University.
Research interests:
Family relations, motherhood, race and ethnicity, qualitative methods
Educational background:
Dr PH Public Health (University of Bielefeld, Germany)
MSc International Health (University of Heidelberg, Germany)
MSW Social Work (Mahatma Gandhi University, India)
BSc Science (Mahatma Gandhi University, India)
Key Publications:
- Puthussery, S., Twamley, K., Harding, S., Mirsky, J., Baron, M. and Macfarlane, A. (2008) 'They're more like ordinary stroppy British women': Attitudes and expectations of maternity care professionals to UK-born ethnic minority women. Journal of Health Services Research and Policy 13 (4), 195–201..
- Caballero, C., Edwards, R., and Puthussery, S. (2008) Parenting 'mixed' children: negotiating difference and belonging in mixed race, ethnicity and faith families. York: York Publishing Services/Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Online at www.jrf.org.uk/bookshop/details.asp?pubID=962
- Kolencherry, S. (2004) Meeting the sexual and reproductive health needs of young people: Examining the fit between needs and current programming responses in India. Doctor of Public Health Dissertation: University of Bielefeld, Germany Online at bieson.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/volltexte/2004/570/index.html
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Research Fellow - Yan-Shing Chang
Yan-Shing Chang joined FPI in 2007 from the University of Cambridge where she received her MPhil and PhD degrees. She has conducted research into a range of parenting issues including cross-cultural research comparing parental involvement in children's learning among white English and Chinese ethnic families in England. Since she joined FPI, she has been researching couple relationships as well as older couples' health and housing issues.
Research interests:
Couple relationships, parental involvement in children's education, home-school relations.
Key publications:
Chang, Y-S and Barrett, H. (2009) Couple Relationships: A review of the nature and effectiveness of support services. London: Family and Parenting Institute.
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Research Fellow - Joanne Kellett
Joanne Kellett joined FPI in 2006 from the University of East Anglia where she had held research posts in both the Health and Social Work Departments. She has been involved in a number of research studies exploring parenting and family relationships including the transition to fatherhood, parental separation and child contact, practitioners' assessments of parenting support need and the impact of UK child welfare interventions on children and families of minority ethnic origin.
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Research Fellow - Martina Klett-Davies
Martina Klett-Davies joined the Family and Parenting Institute as a Research Fellow in 2007 from the London School of Economics where she continues to be a visiting Lecturer and an Associate Fellow at the Gender Institute. At LSE, Martina Klett-Davies has obtained national and European research grants. Her work as a Research Fellow has been funded by a EU Human Capital and Mobility' Fellowship, and her doctoral as well as post-doctoral research has been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
As a sociologist she has specialised in family and gender studies and modern social theories that culminated in her monograph "Going it alone? Lone motherhood in late modernity (Ashgate 2007). At the Family and Parenting Institute, she has conducted a study on the mapping and analysis of parenting services in England (FPI 2008) besides organising conference and editing two books on "Putting sibling relationships on the map: A multi-disciplinary perspective" (FPI 2008) and "Is parenting a class issue?" (FPI 2010). Martina has also contributed to "UK Family Trends" (FPI 2009) and is currently working on a DCSF funded research project into Early Home Learning.
Research interests:
Family dynamics (parenting and paid and unpaid work, lone mothers, sibling relationships and housewives). Her focus is on the interplay between social identities, social policies and social capital.
Key publications
- Klett-Davies M. (ed.) (2008) Putting sibling relationships on the map: A multidisciplinary perspective, Family and Parenting Institute, London,
- Klett-Davies M., Skaliotis E. & Wollny I. (2008) Mapping and Analysis of Parenting Services in England, Family & Parenting Institute, London
- Klett-Davies M. (2007) Going it alone? Lone motherhood in late modernity, Aldershot, Ashgate
- Klett-Davies M. (2005) 'The Diversity of State Benefit Dependent Lone Mothers: the Use of Type Categories As an Analytical Tool, Sociological Research Online (10), 1, http://www.socresonline.org.uk/10/1/2.html
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Dr Sue Virgo joined the Family and Parenting Institute in August 2007. Before joining the Institute she undertook evaluations of parenting support programmes at the University of Brighton. She also worked solely on 3 freelance evaluations of family support for the voluntary sector in East Sussex. She has been a practitioner in a voluntary sector family support project and an Associate Lecturer at the Open University.
Educational background:
DPhil in Women's Studies at University of Sussex
MA in Women's Studies at University of Sussex
BA in Social Policy and Administration at University of Sussex
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Research Fellow - Stephen Hunt
Stephen Hunt joined the Family and Parenting Institute as a Research Fellow in 2009 from the Department of Early Childhood and Primary Education at the Institute of Education. He previously worked at the London Business School and the Institute of Food Research. His research interests include risk perception, risk communication trust, and national and cross national surveys research. Currently, he is writing a book on UK Family Trends.
Key publications
- St James-Roberts, I. Goodwin, J. Peter, B. Adams, D. Hunt, S.A. (2004) Individual differences in reactivity to undressing, handling and a standard neuro-behavioural examination predict how much 1-week-old babies cry at home. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology.
- Frewer, L .J., Hunt,.S., Brennon,M., Kuznesof, S., Ness, M. & Ritson, R. (2002) The views of scientific experts on how the public conceptualise uncertainty. Journal of Risk Research.
- Hunt S.A, & Frewer, L.J. (2001) Impact of BSE on GM Food Risk Perceptions. Risk Decision and Policy 6 91-103.
- Hunt, S.A, & Frewer, L.J. (2000) Public Trust in Sources of Information about Genetically Modified Foods British Journal of Food 103 (1) 46-62.
- Hunt, S.A, Frewer, L.J. and Shepherd, R. (1999) Public Trust in Sources of Information about Radiation Risks. Journal of Risk Research. 2 (2). p167-180.
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- PhD Student – Michela Franceschelli
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