CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE

Our work in children's services includes service and policy reviews, performance assessment and research generally across all children in need as well as more specifically for looked after children.

Projects

Support for evaluation of VCS Engage – a national programme designed to strengthen the engagement of the voluntary and community sector in the Every Child Matters agenda, for National Children's Bureau (NCB) (2007-08)

Establishment of evaluation process and framework for BIG Lottery funded Play England initiative, for National Children's Bureau (NCB) (2007) More information

Support for special study into service responses for young people with severe and complex needs entering transition, for Commission for Social Care Inspection (2006)

Support for special study considering relationship between needs of parents and children, and service responses, for children on the Child Protection Register, for Commission for Social Care Inspection (2005)

An evaluation of National Children's Bureau (NCB) working practices, for the National Children's Bureau (2004)

Support, for production of national (integrated) user group reports (Children), for Department of Health SSI (2004)

Research into children looked after by London boroughs and placed in Kent, for Greater London Association of Directors of Social Services (GLADSS), jointly with National Children's Bureau (2003) More information

Research into prevalence and prevention of drugs use in rural areas, for Chichester and Horsham Community Safety Partnership (2002/03), jointly with Health and Social Policy Research Centre (HSPRC), University of Brighton (2003) More information

Analysis of Quality Protects Management Action Plans (QP MAPs) on behalf of Department of Health, SSI (2002)

Development and production of electronic template, for Quality Protects Management Action Plans on behalf of Department of Health, SSI (2001)

Preparation of Quality Protects Management Action Plans, for LB Merton, with Rho Delta (2000)

Predicting the need for children to be looked after by LB Newham, for National Children's Bureau and LB Newham (2001) More information

Strategic review of Barnardo's services for Looked After Children (with National Children's Bureau), for Barnardo's (2000) More information

Research and advice on social care information requirements (Children) on behalf of ICL (1999)

Review of childcare IT systems in Local Authority Social Services Departments, for Careworks Ltd, Republic of Ireland (1999)

Review of social services operational procedures, for LB Enfield (1999)

Development of social services eligibility criteria (adults and children), for LB Barking & Dagenham (1999)