The Children’s care monitor 2008 is our first annual report of what children and young people living away from home or getting help from children’s social care services have told

The project’s aims were: – To encourage participation in and understanding of the policy-making process by women living in poverty, using participatory methods. – To help women living in poverty

Health and social service workers often have to decide whether parenting is appropriate. Similarly, policy-makers planning services for families need information about parenting norms and detrimental parenting. This report is

The Mental Capacity Act 2005 created the Independent Mental Capacity Advocate (IMCA) service as a safeguard for people without the capacity to make certain important decisions. The Act also introduced

Statistics on Private Fostering arrangements in England: Year ending 31 March 2008 and include data from England. The SFR covers figures on children cared for and accommodated in private fostering

These reports describe the work done by four task forces in charge of developing a new carers’ strategy.

There is a considerable body of existing research which examines the characteristics that are associated with young people’s involvement in anti-social and other problem behaviours. These characteristics are often referred

In order to measure the outcomes and the impact that housing support services have for service users, in 2006 the then Scottish Executive commissioned research to review existing models to