research in practice

1. DCSF
(Glossary)

**Department for Children, Schools and Families** Government department responsible for all issues affecting people up to the age of 19 including child protection and education. Replaced disbanded DfES ...

2. Learning from Serious Case Reviews: Messages for practice - 30 November 2010
(Events Calendar/Learning from Serious Case Reviews: Messages for practice)

This event is for: Members of LSCBs, planners, policy-makers and practitioners across children's services, including health professionals, particularly those working at the front end and those in child ...

3. National Minimum Standards – Residential Special Schools
(Research & Policy Updates/initiatives)

... carers, children and young people as a guide to what they should expect a school to do. (The DCSF consulted on revised NMS for residential special schools early last year – see RPU 108.) further info ...

4. National Minimum Standards – Boarding Schools
(Research & Policy Updates/initiatives)

... The standards came into force on 1 September. (The DCSF consulted on revised NMS for boarding schools early last year – see RPU 108.) further info  ...

5. Pathways to adoption for minority ethnic children in England – reasons for entry to care
(Research & Policy Updates/articles)

... and black Caribbean families. In 2010 a DCSF funded study aimed to increase understanding of minority ethnic children’s care careers and their history. This article considers some of the findings, looking ...

6. The use and effectiveness of anti-bullying strategies in schools Goldsmiths, University of London, DfE, April 2011
(Research & Policy Updates/articles)

... bullying) in different school settings (primary/secondary/special/PRU) and evaluates their efficacy. Some evaluation of the DCSF’s peer mentoring pilot scheme is included. The research consisted of a ...

7. A Review of Reviews in Child and Adolescent Mental Health
(Research & Policy Updates/articles)

... (DCSF, 2007). The HCP was revised in 2008 to introduce a model using universal services to identify families needing more specialist support and intervention. The revisions were based on the findings ...

8. Building on the learning from serious case reviews
(Research & Policy Updates/articles)

A two year analysis of child protection database notifications 2007-2009, Marian Brandon, Sue Bailey, and Pippa Belderson, DfE, October 2010 This work was commissioned by the DCSF and written prior to ...

9. Change in Wellbeing from Childhood to Adolescence: Risk and resilience
(Research & Policy Updates/articles)

(February 2010) Leslie Morrison Gutman, John Brown, Rodie Akerman and Polina Obolenskaya, Centre for Research on the Wider Benefits of Learning, Institute of Education, DCSF This report uses secondary ...

10. Independent Review of the Children’s Commissioner – Call for evidence
(Research & Policy Updates/consultations)

John Dunford, General Secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, has been asked by the Education Secretary to carry out an independent review of the office, role and functions of the Children’s ...

11. Me and My School: Preliminary findings from the first year of the national evaluation of Targeted Mental Health in Schools (2008-2009)
(Research & Policy Updates/articles)

(2010) Department for Children, Schools and Families (Research Report DCSF-RR232) With the formation of the new government, the Department for Children, Schools and Families has, as readers will know, ...

12. Vetting and Barring Scheme Consultations – Extension of deadlines
(Research & Policy Updates/consultations)

The Department for Education has extended the deadlines for two consultations launched earlier this year relating to the new Vetting and Barring Scheme: Statutory Requirements and Advice, for CRB Disclosures ...

13. Securing Sufficient Childcare: Statutory guidance for local authorities in carrying out their childcare sufficiency duties
(Research & Policy Updates/initiatives)

This statutory guidance is intended to steer and support local authorities in carrying out their duties to secure sufficient childcare under the Childcare Act 2006. It updates earlier guidance published ...

14. Positive Activities: Good practice guidance
(Research & Policy Updates/initiatives)

This good practice guidance highlights successful case studies that show how partners have worked together to provide high-quality leisure-time activities for young people. It shows how a partnership approach ...

15. Participation Planning: A toolkit for local authorities
(Research & Policy Updates/initiatives)

The Education and Skills Act 2008 provides for an increase in the participation age so that by 2013 all young people will continue in learning to age 17, and to age 18 by 2015. This toolkit is intended ...

16. Youth Crime Action Plan: Update
(Research & Policy Updates/consultations)

This short report sets out progress since the government launched its Youth Crime Action Plan in 2008 and priorities for future action. Among other measures, it pledges that ‘think family’ policy will ...

17. The Government’s Approach to Crime Prevention
(Research & Policy Updates/consultations)

... financial incentives to work towards the prevention of youth custody. DCSF should consider expanding peer mentoring schemes to support young people making the transition from primary to secondary school. ...

18. Childminding Quality Improvement Networks – Draft guidance
(Research & Policy Updates/consultations)

The DCSF code of practice on the provision of the free entitlement for three- and four-year-olds says all local authorities should establish a childminding network. This consultation from DCSF invites ...

19. Public Consultation on Continuing Need for a Controlled Activity Category in the Vetting and Barring Scheme
(Research & Policy Updates/consultations)

The new Vetting and Barring Scheme aims to protect children and vulnerable adults by vetting those who wish to work with vulnerable groups in specified settings or ways (known as ‘regulated activity’) ...

20. Consultation on Statutory Requirements and Advice, for CRB Disclosures for Safeguarding Purposes, on Workers already Registered with the Independent Safeguarding Authority
(Research & Policy Updates/consultations)

This consultation from DCSF asks for views on whether the government should seek to review and amend statutory requirements for CRB disclosures for safeguarding purposes in relation to workers who will, ...