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  • Addressing pressing questions about special guardianship
  • Developing regional engagement
  • Research evidence standards
  • Scoping a special interest project
  • Setting up the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory
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  • Born into care Wales: Newborns and infants in care proceedings in Wales
  • Born into care: Consulting in Wales
  • Born into care: Infants in the family justice system
  • Can we do digital child protection and family justice safely - and fairly?
  • Children in care: Preserving family connections?
  • Digital ThinkIn: remote hearings — fair family justice?
  • Digital ThinkIn: the family courts after the COVID-19 crisis — what are we learning?
  • Making better use of local area data: opportunities and challenges for children’s social care
  • Pre-birth Practice in Socially Distant Times: Challenges and Innovations, Tuesday, 23rd June 10.30am-12 noon
  • Pre-proceedings practice event
  • Regional Research Symposium: Presentations from 25th September 2018
  • Stakeholder Advisory Council meeting
  • Supporting Separating Families Alliance scoping event
  • Webinar: Digital family contact time: sharing and building knowledge
• News
  • ‘Virtual contact’ between children and their birth families during lockdown: unexpected opportunities
  • 7 questions to ask when using digital technology to help maintain family contact
  • Additional resources for 'Born into Care' available - Infographic highlighting key themes from stakeholder groups
  • Appointment of Beverley Barnett-Jones as Associate Director for Practice and Impact
  • Appointment of Jude Eyre as Associate Director for Strategy and Delivery
  • Born into Care additional resources are now available
  • Born into Care resources available; slides, presentations, and opening address
  • Born into care: guidelines to be developed for health and social work professionals
  • Care Crisis Review evidence given to House of Commons this week
  • Child contact during COVID-19 lockdown: a private law perspective
  • Children's access to courts project [Video]
  • Claire Mason delivered discussion on infant removal at birth on BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour
  • Could virtual reality technology support contact arrangements for looked after children during the COVID-19 crisis?
  • Creativity, compassion and cooperation: how COVID-19 is shaping support for babies and families
  • Data analysts and CAFCASS colleagues meet in London for public and private law data discussion
  • Domestic abuse and COVID-19: Perspectives from family justice courts around the world
  • Hear Karen Broadhurst's interview on Radio 4 Today Programme
  • HHJ Lesley Newton hosts workshop to explore emergency and short notice applications in Greater Manchester
  • Law in action: The family drug and alcohol court radio available on BBC Radio 4
  • Lisa Harker interviewed as part of Tortoise case file on children being taken into care
  • More than 1,000 respondents take part in rapid consultation on remote hearings in family courts
  • New evidence review: the implications of contact for the well-being of children and young people
  • New insight piece: Sussex quality circle
  • New insight piece: What could a public health approach to family justice look like?
  • New rapid consultation: the use of remote hearings in the family justice system
  • ​New rapid evidence review: post-separation digital contact between children and birth families
  • New research designed to inform contact arrangements between children and birth families post separation
  • New research project: Understanding how children’s connections to birth families are being managed during social isolation and lockdown
  • Nuffield FJO comment on latest DfE figures on looked after children
  • Nuffield Foundation appoints Board and Director of the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory
  • Nuffield Foundation appoints team to deliver development phase of the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory
  • Nuffield Foundation establishes new data partnership to shed light on how the family justice system is working
  • Number of newborn babies in care proceedings has doubled in Wales since 2015
  • One in four mothers in care proceedings in Wales are at risk of ‘repeat removals’ of children
  • Over half of pregnant women in Wales who are at risk of having their babies removed experience mental health problems
  • Read Peter Salem's 'AFCC think tanks: Promoting dialogue on difficult issues in family law' report
  • Reform special guardianship to protect and support children and their carers
  • Sir Andrew McFarlane delivers key note address: "Crisis, What Crisis?" at ALC Conference 2018
  • Sir Andrew McFarlane's first View from the President's Chambers issued
  • Sir James Munby appointed Chair of the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory
  • Sir James Munby interviewed in Tortoise Case File: "We are operating in the dark"
  • The Nuffield Family Justice Observatory appoints Mary Ryan as an associate
  • The Nuffield FJO holds its first regional research symposium
  • The Nuffield FJO holds two stakeholder events to consult on key priorities for the Nuffield FJO's first year workplan
  • The Nuffield FJO releases Born into Care report
  • The Nuffield FJO, CoramBAAF and the Family Justice Council to work together to address pressing questions about Special Guardianship
  • Zoom, Teams and Skype are keeping children in care connected to their families during lockdown
• Data Partnership
  • The Nuffield Family Justice Observatory Data Partnership Summary Document
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