This one-day conference serves as a forum for the dissemination of research relevant to social work with children and families, who are involved with the Family Justice and Family Court system, whether through private or public law.
Conference Themes: Contact, Risk Management and Changing Needs Child Inclusive Practice
Elizabeth Hall - The Baby Peter effect and the increase in s31 care order applications
Eunice Lumsden - Early Years Professionals and Safeguarding
Nicky Stanley - Children and Families Experiencing Domestic Violence: Police and Children’s Services Responses
Elsbeth Neil - Post-Adoption Contact with Birth Relatives who have Mental Health Problems
Joan Hunt - Do Non-Resident Fathers Get a Raw Deal from the Family Courts?
Joe Smeeton, and Kathy Boxall - Birth Parents’ Experiences of Care Proceedings
Robin Sen - Managing Contact: the Perspectives of Social Workers and Reporters in Scotland
Sharon Blake - Listening to Children: An Exploration of Cognitive Processes and the Implications for Practice and Training
Claire Mason and Scott Hyde - Social Work the Art of Relationship
Patricia Jessiman and Peter Keogh - An Early Process Evaluation of the Public Law Outline
Karen Broadhurst and Kim Holt - Procedural Shortfalls in the ‘Real World’ of Social Work Practice: a Critical Analysis of the Implementation of the Public Law Outline
Joan Hunt - It’s Not Easy: a National Survey of Contact in Separated Families
Anna Fairtlough - Children and Young People’s Experiences Growing Up in Lesbian and Gay Families
Stephen Clarke - Child Inclusive Practice in Australia: How to Incorporate the Views of Young People in Dispute Resolution
Christine Smart and Representatives of the Cafcass Young People’s Board - How It Looks to Me - Part One and Part Two
Lynne Harne - Domestic Violence and Safeguarding Children the Impact of Early Risk Identification and Assessment in Private Law Proceedings – an exploratory pilot study
Candy Murphy and Louise Caffrey - The Need for Child Contact Centres in Ireland – Learning from International Best Practice
Gill Handley and Celia Doyle - Communicating with Young Children in Legal Contexts
Caroline Leeson - The Involvement of Looked After Children in Making Decisions about their Present and Future Care Needs
Jeanette Cossar and Caz Dunne - Children and Young People’s Involvement in the Child Protection Process
Sophie Laws, Andrew Burroughs, Sarah Jones and Danya Glaser - An Innovative Approach to Practice Improvement in Private Law Casework: Learning from the Coram@Cafcass Pilot Scheme