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The Winter edition of the Journal of Children's Services is out now! 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.	January 17 2012
Centre For Social Policy Debate Issues Affecting Children in care Unit staff members Vashti Berry and Sarah Blower present at this year's Centre for Social Policy autumn seminar, which explored two major issues affecting children in care in the UK; achieving long-term security for young children and educational success for those of school age.	December 07 2011
Unit co-director speaks at the Family Nurse Partnership day Michael Little addressed the Family Nurse Partnership Annual Study Day in Manchester on the 22nd of November. Here is what he said.	November 22 2011
The Unit is hiring interns! Are you a smart, hard working intern looking for an opportunity to broaden your skills in research to help improve outcomes for children?	November 11 2011
The autumn edition of the JCS Journal is out now! The new Autumn 2011 edition of the Journal of Children's Services, edited by the Social Research Unit, has been published.	November 10 2011
Breakthroughs in reducing bullying and anti-social behaviour with Christina Salmivalli The Social Research Unit hosted its final seminar of the year with Christina Salmivalli, Professor of Applied Psychology at the University of Turku, Finland.	November 09 2011
Learning from lessons in early-intervention The Social Research Unit, in collaboration with the Centre for Mental Health, are to host a round table discussion on evidence-based early intervention in mental health.	October 11 2011
The Unit presents on RCT evaluations 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 .	September 30 2011
Working with the Gates Foundation to achieve lasting impact at scale! The Social Research Unit at Dartington recently published a report that describes their work with the Gates Foundation to support their effots to diffuse and disseminate family health innovations in low-income countries.	September 15 2011
Unit presents on putting research into practice The Social Research Unit is attending this week's inaugural Global Implementation Conference in Washington DC, where it is presenting three papers.	August 16 2011
Unit helping Big Lottery Realise its Ambition The Social Research Unit is part of consortium chosen by Big Lottery to support a £25m investment in the scale-up of effective interventions for children.	August 11 2011
New edition of the Journal of Children's Services focuses on youth justice 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.	August 03 2011
Hobbs & Axford pick up the Kamerman and Khan Award at ISCI Social Research Unit researchers, Tim Hobbs and Nick Axford, have been awarded the Kamerman and Khan award for their paper to be presented at this years International Society for Child Indicators (ISCI) conference at York.	July 29 2011
Going to scale: lessons from the private sector The Mayor's Fund for London and the SRU hold a round table seminar to debate what the public sector could learn from the private sector about scale and replication.	July 06 2011
The Social Research Unit's Annual Lecture This year's Annual Lecture was presented by Professor Jack P Shonkoff, Founding Director of the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University, on "Leveraging Developmental Science to Strengthen the Foundations of Lifelong Learning, Behaviour and Health."	June 08 2011
Unit paper presented at this year's Society for Prevention Research conference Nick Axford, Tim Hobbs and Gretchen Bjornstad attend SPR's 19th annual conference in Washington D.C	June 02 2011
Unit's epidemiologist completes his Phd! Tim Hobbs, a researcher here at the unit, completed and defended his dissertation this month at the University of Bath. Congratulations Dr. Hobbs!	May 25 2011
Catalano speaks on communities that Care at SRU's event Professor Richard Catalano spoke at the Unit's launch of the Communities that Care on May 18th, 2011. Attached to this is a copy of the presentation. Please click on the title to read more.	May 13 2011
The spirit level under scrutiny; centre for social policy seminar The April seminar of the Centre for Social Policy examined the thesis proposed by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett in their book The Spirit Level that the apparent contradiction between the material success and social failings of many modern societies is best explained by inequality in societies rather than levels of poverty per se and that more unequal societies are bad for almost everyone in them, the well off as well as the poor.	April 07 2011
Self-report Delinquency in a Post-Soviet Context There is now a lot of research about youth delinquency and factors associated with it in Western Societies. But what about other parts of the world? Do findings from studies in the West hold elsewhere?	March 31 2011