What happens in the home is a key driver of school experiences and attainment, and influences choices and outcomes. Keeping children safe from emotional and physical harm, tackling child poverty and supporting families will relieve pressure across the system and enable children to learn and thrive. This also contributes to the Safe Streets mission. We are interested in all types of safety including safeguarding at home and in care and online safety.
Full details can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/department-for-education-areas-of-research-interest
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Understanding Children's Lives and Outcomes, led by Morag Treanor and Fiona Mitchell, will provide new insights to help better understand and deliver the best possible outcomes for children, utilising existing datasets n...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Edinburgh
The project focuses on understanding children's lives and outcomes, including vulnerable cohorts, and aims to inform policy and practice to improve children's health, wellbeing, and attainment.
Friendship networks and relationships with communities are important parts of the lives of looked after children and young people (LACYP). Much of legislation, policy, practice and research focuses on 'the care experienc...
Funded by: AHRC
Lead research organisation: University of Lincoln
The project explores the relationship of community to the lives of looked after children and young people, which is relevant to maintaining stable relationships with children and families.
Schools are an important source for the identification, referral and management of child protection concerns. Yet schools often lack robust arrangements for working in partnership with children's social care departments ...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: King's College London
The project focuses on supporting schools in decision-making and multi-agency working for the protection of children, which is relevant to ensuring staff maintain stable relationships with children and families.