Development archive
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Developing a strategy that merits an award The West Midlands Regional Safeguarding Board has highlighted Birmingham's work to introduce evidence-based programmes and cost-benefit analysis to Children's Services at its first regional safeguarding awards ceremony. |
June 01 2010 |
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Unit backs Birmingham’s 2-1 benefit hopes The Unit's collaboration with Birmingham City Council to defend costs and demonstrate the benefits of implementing new programmes in the city is described in the latest newsletter from Social and Emotional Learning Update. |
May 13 2010 |
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The Unit goes to Addis Ababa Earlier this year, researchers Michael Little and Dwan Kaoukji had the opportunity to work with a non-governmental organisation (NGO) in Ethiopia to help develop a service to prevent children from the risks of being sexual exploited. |
January 31 2010 |
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Practising what practice preaches Our collaboration with Birmingham City Council in piloting the PATHS social education programme as part of its Brighter Futures strategy has attracted national press notice, this week. |
November 11 2009 |
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Brighter Futures cross Irish Sea The city of Birmingham's experience as a testbed for a comprehensive early intervention strategy, and the Social Research Unit's contribution to its design and evaluation were explained to Stormont Executive members, last week. |
November 06 2009 |
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The grand view of do-it-yourself Ways of helping policy makers to grasp research principles in their efforts to assemble a picture of the health and development of the children for whom they are responsible are described in a forthcoming Research Unit paper. |
October 12 2009 |
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Birmingham's brighter future goes on trial Investigations into whether two widely implemented, evidence-based parenting programs can improve the lives of children and families in Birmingham UK are gathering pace, this week, as the Unit launches randomised controlled trials in the city. |
July 20 2009 |
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Parents screened for the Incredible Years The Social Research Unit has begun collecting data from parents for its first randomised control trial of the Incredible Years programme in Birmingham. |
June 22 2009 |
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Incredible Years manual created for Brighter Futures A manual to guide the implementation of the Incredible Years BASIC parenting programme in Birmingham, UK, has been completed. |
June 09 2009 |
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What We Mean By Development We do not undertake research purely for the sake of science. We regard it as fundamental to improving how a society brings up its children. |
May 04 2009 |
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Journal of Children's Services Launched in 2006 the the quarterly provides an outlet for academics, policy makers and practitioners to write about evidence or its application. |
April 30 2009 |
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Open wide – get ready to stop US anti-social behaviour expert and preventative check-up specialist Tom Dishion told a London audience of children’s services experts, last night, that effective interventions were going more the way of good dentistry than of emergency healthcare. |
April 30 2009 |
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Birmingham gets down to family bonding Advances over 20 years in prevention science are giving policy makers a more sophisticated picture of risk and protective factors that influence young people’s lives, US researcher David Hawkins has told children’s services staff in Birmingham UK. |
April 30 2009 |
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Prevention is better than cure – or prisons The improving power of cost-benefit analysis, for example in persuading the Washington state legislature to build fewer new prisons and invest instead in prevention, was explained to children’s services staff in Birmingham UK yesterday. |
March 20 2009 |
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Designing new PATHS in Birmingham The Unit is helping a group of senior policy-makers and practitioners to prepare for the implementation of a new social and emotional learning programme in Birmingham primary schools from September 2009. |
February 17 2009 |
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Triple P launches Birmingham pilot Our partnership with Birmingham City Council in the implementation of its Brighter Futures Strategy has taken a step forward with the formation of a multi-disciplinary service design group to oversee piloting of the Triple P parenting programme in the city. |
February 17 2009 |