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 ...