Placement Fellowship within Family Strategy at the DCSF: understanding the pathways and dynamics for families and children with early risk factors
Lead Research Organisation:
University College London
Department Name: Childhood, Families and Health
Abstract
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People |
ORCID iD |
| Helen Roberts (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Hill M
(2013)
Children's Services - Working Together
Stevens M
(2010)
Research Review: Economic evidence for interventions in children's social care: revisiting the What Works for Children project
in Child & Family Social Work
| Description | Campbell collaboration meeting |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Examples include: contributions to Campbell collaboration - Better evidence for a better world: Thinking globally, acting locally, responding as govt. analyst Gill Clark, Tom Lamplugh, Aileen McIntosh; Scottish Government - 2009 http://www.campbellcollaboration.org/colloquium_programme/monday_printer.shtml and 'Engaging academic social scientists in government policy making and delivery' event on Monday 6 June. 2011 http://blogs.bournemouth.ac.uk/research/files/2011/06/British-Academy-programme.pdf |
| Description | contribution to green paper on the family while on secondment to DCSF |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | Although there was a change of government not long after the green paper was produced, a number of recommendations and some of the evidence (also used in the 2010 Marmot report) have been absorbed to a greater or lesser extent into early years policies, |
| Description | DH Policy Research Unit on Children and Families |
| Organisation | King's College London |
| Department | NIHR Biomedical Research Centre |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | In applying for funding for this unit I believe that the period I had spent in policy along with my period leading R&D in Barnardos was helpful in our gaining our bid |
| Collaborator Contribution | I contribute to the sociology and social policy aspects of this unit |
| Impact | K Curtis-Tyler, Lisa Arai, Terence Stephenson, Helen Roberts. What makes for a good or bad paediatric chronic illness servce from the view point of children, young people, carers clinicians and support staff. A synthesis of qualitative findings. Archives of Disease in Childhood 2015 isa Arai, Terence Stephenson and Helen Roberts. The unseen child and safeguarding; Did Not Attend Guidelines in the NHS. Archives of Disease in Childhood 2015 Lisa Arai, S. Stapley and Helen Roberts. 'Did not attends' in children 0-10: a scoping review. Child: Care, Health and Development 2013 |
| Start Year | 2011 |
| Description | Engaging academic social scientists in government policy making and delivery An event organised by Government Heads of the Analytical Professions, ESRC and the British Academy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | I was a plenary speaker at an event organised by Engaging academic social scientists in government policy making and delivery An event organised by Government Heads of the Analytical Professions, ESRC and the British Academy and attended mainly by senior civil servants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| Description | Evidence in practice Heads of Analysis Workshop on Bridging the Gap: what can governments do to foster effective engagement between academics and government Government Office of Science |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | I was a plenary speaker at Evidence in practice Heads of Analysis Workshop on Bridging the Gap: what can governments do to foster effective engagement between academics and government Government Office of Science |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| Description | What Works in Reducing Inequalities in Child Health, Gresham College, London |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This was an engagement event I organised at at Gresham college in London and the audience included the general public, school students and undergraduates |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| URL | https://www.gresham.ac.uk/professors-and-speakers/professor-helen-roberts/ |