There appears to be a consensus in Great Britain that concerted action is required to ensure better use of research findings and administrative data within the family justice system. The Nuffield Foundation has taken a lead in considering how this might be addressed. It has held a roundtable discussion involving a range of family justice practitioners and researchers from the UK and Australia and has now commissioned a scoping study to identify the most appropriate structure, functions, and funding of any new or repurposed organisation. This paper highlights learnings and issues to date, including the sector's evidence needs, current barriers to greater research evidence use, examples of existing mechanisms here and abroad for supporting the use of research evidence in the family justice system, and the questions to be addressed when assessing the possible role and functions of the new organisation.
Aims to identify the overall effectiveness of in-court conciliation in contact cases as well as the relative effectiveness of three contrasting models of conciliation.
This study, funded again by the Department for Constitutional Affairs (now Ministry of Justice), examines the longer term impact of conciliation on re-litigation, contact patterns, co-parenting, contact problems and adult and child wellbeing. The study was based on follow-up telephone interviews with 117 of the original baseline study parents.
How can social workers enable vulnerable children to have a voice in the complex systems designed to protect them and promote their welfare? How can children be helped to make sense of complicated and disrupted lives? This core text addresses these and other challenging questions, setting out the principles and practice of social work with children and demonstrating the diversity of the work through carefully chosen case material. It will be essential reading for all social workers in training and practice involved with children.
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