what's new june 2009

New EvidenceBank reviews

Five new research reviews are now waiting to be read in our EvidenceBank:

• Fostering Family Resiliency: A review of the key protective factors
• Fostering security? A meta-analysis of attachment in adopted children
• In a rush to permanency: preventing adoption disruption
• Under one roof: A review and selective meta-analysis on the outcomes of residential child and youth care
• Child and Family Support Services with Minority Ethnic Families: what can we learn from the research?

Research and Policy Update for June (RPU)

Highlights this month include:

• a study from Australia on a crucial aspect of the child protection system: the relationship between front-line practitioners and their first-line managers
• a small but important study on supporting the participation of disabled children and young people in decision making
• the government's full response to Lord Laming's report
• the first report of the Social Work Task Force
• an MPs' report on human trafficking in the UK.

Click here to read the RPU

Learning Programme - new, improved on-line booking system

We are pleased to tell you that our new and improved online booking system for the Learning Programme is now up and running on our website. The main advantage of the new system is that Link Officers will now be able to monitor the status of all of their existing booking requests on-line in a single location and this will enable them to see, at a glance, who is on the attendance lists for each event and whether or not they attended.

Working together from Cornwall to Cumbria

The latest entry to the Growing Digital blog discusses the potential to share knowledge and experience right across the research in practice network using exciting new online tools. Click here to learn how you can get involved in an ambitious project to pool together all our expertise from Cornwall to Cumbria.

new blog

The latest in the research in practice series of Performance Pointers was published in April 2009 and focused on National Indicator 112 – Under-18 conception rate. See what the author, Sarah Judd, said about the work she has done for this briefing, and how she intends to take this series forward. Read more…

Helping children in Bosnia and Herzegovina

During 2009 we are supporting Hope and Homes for Children’s work in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a country where 18 per cent of the population live below the poverty line, 62 per cent of young adults are unemployed, and 1,130 children still live in institutions where conditions rarely meet even their most basic need. More information about Hope and Homes for Children can be found here.