Research from Nuffield FJO in development

This insight piece explores the nature, availability and use of child level administrative data at the local and regional level, by children’s social care departments. The report finds that there is value in children’s social care data being analysed locally and regionally, as well as purely being exported by local…

This report provides a summary of stakeholder activity between the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory development team and the Greater Manchester Local Family Justice Board (LFJB). This pilot will help to inform how the Nuffield FJO works with LFJB. With a focus on good practice and areas for improvement, this…

This paper outlines the work of a group of social workers, lawyers and guardians working in Sussex who have formed a Quality Circle to identify ways to improve practice in the family justice system.

Teresa Williams, Director of Strategy at Cafcass England, explores what a public health approach to family justice might look like. Her focus is on private law cases which centre on disputes over where and how children spend time with their separated parents.

Practitioners working in the family justice system make difficult decisions everyday about the lives of children. Not only are the facts of each and every case often subject to disagreement but the broader substantive issues of family justice are sometimes hotly contested. This paper sets out the work of…