What's new in the field

This page gives you access to a featured relevant policy document, research report or legislation from Ireland, Northern Ireland, UK and the EU in the field of children, young people, families and the communities in which they live. If you would like CES to publicise you publication, event or other news please contact Kate Morris, kmorris@effectiveservices.org

This is Ireland -Highlights from the Census 2011, Part 1

Author: CSO, March 2011

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Behavioural and cognitive-behavioural group-based parenting programmes for early-onset conduct problems in children aged 3 to 12 years
Authors:Furlong M, McGilloway S, Bywater T, Hutchings J, Smith SM, Donnelly M

Link to access review report (from Cochrane library)

 

Growing up in Ireland Research Conference 2011 - speaker's papers

Growing Up in Ireland held its third annual research conference on Thursday 1st December 2011in Dublin.

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National Strategy for Research and Data on Children's Lives

Author: Department of Children and Youth Affairs (2011)

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Implementation quality of whole school mental health promotion and students' academic performance

Author: Katherine L.Dix, Philip T. Slee, Michael J. Lawson & John P. Keeves

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Volume 17, No. 1, 2012, pp. 45–51

Link to report

Growing Up in Ireland - How Families Matter for Social and Emotional Outcomes of 9-Year-Old Children

Authors: Elizabeth Nixon, Growing up in Ireland, Children's Reseach Centre,Trinity College, DCYA, ESRI

March 2012

Link to reoprt

A Rights Based Approach to Monitoring Children and Young People's Wellbeing

Authors: UNESCO Children and Youth Programme, Univesity of Ulster and UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, National University of Ireland, Galway

October 2011

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Making Sense of Early Intervention

Author: The Centre for Social Justice

Date: July 2011

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A Review of the international evidence on interagency working

Author: June Stantham for the Department of Children and Youth Affairs

Date: September 2011

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Expanding the Evidence Universe - Doing better by knowing more

Authors: Lisbeth Schorr and Frank Farrow

Date: July 2011

Introduction: Research and experience over the past two decades have provided more knowledge than ever before on what it takes to improve outcomes for disadvantaged children and families. Lisbeth Schorr and Frank Farrow propose a five-part set of concrete actions that the philantrophic, public, non-profit, academic, business and entrepreneurial sectors can take to build a wider and deeper evidence base.

Link to report

Early Intervention: Smart Investment, Massive Savings

Author: Graham Allen MP
Date: July 2011

Introduction: In July 2010 the UK Prime Minister asked Graham Allen, MP to lead a review on Early Intervention. In his first report,  Early Intervention: The Next Steps Allen provided a list of recommendations to build on the present political and financial momentum of Early Intervention, and made a strong economic case for investing in early intervention. However the first report did not address the challenges of how to increase investment in Early Intervention at a time when public resources are constrained. This follow up publication, Early Intervention: Smart Investment, Massive Savings focuses on how to finance an expansion of Early Intervention through better use of public resources and through the alternative routes to attract additional investment.

To review the report click here: Early Intervention, Smart Investment, Massive Savings
Click here to review Early Intervention:The Next Steps

The Munroe Review of Child Protection:Final Report

A Child Centred System

Author: Professor Eileen Munro - an independent report for the Department of Education in the UK

Date: May 2011

Introduction: When the Secretary of State for Education in the UK commissioned this review of child protection in June 2010, a central question was ‘what helps professionals make the best judgments they can to protect a vulnerable child?’.This final report sets out proposals for reform which, taken together, are intended to create the conditions that enable professionals to make the best judgments about the help to give to children, young people and families. This involves moving from a system that has become over-bureaucratised and focused on compliance to one that values and develops professional expertise and is focused on the safety and welfare of children and young people.

To read the full report click here