In a recently published chapter, researchers at the Social Research Unit review current and past child protection arrangements, and conclude that a radically different approach to child protection policy is needed to bring the right help to the right children.

The Unit has launched the first of a series of cost-benefit reports for children’s services entitled Investing in Children on April 20th. The reports are available here. Please click on the title of this story to view them. 

This year's first Center for Social Policy meeting will take place at Dartington Hall on the 15th-16 March 2012.

The journal is edited by the Social Research Unit, a quarterly designed to encourage the development of research-based, outcome-focused services to better safeguard and promote the well-being of vulnerable children and their families.

Michael Little addressed the Family Nurse Partnership Annual Study Day in Manchester on the 22nd of November. Here is what he said.

The Social Research Unit hosted its final seminar of the year with Christina Salmivalli, Professor of Applied Psychology at the University of Turku, Finland.

The Social Research Unit delivered two papers at the 6th Annual Conference on Randomised Controlled Trials in the Social Science at York, UK in September 2011 .

The Social Research Unit is attending this week's inaugural Global Implementation Conference in Washington DC, where it is presenting three papers.

In a guest editorial for the new edition of the Journal of Children's Services (6.2), Rod Morgan argues that scaling back criminal justice agencies combined with a lack of money for criminal justice intervention could actually be very positive in the long run.