Children
Research Topic
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Research problems linked to this topic
- What types of approaches lead to better outcomes for condition-specific learning needs in mainstream schooling? What works for SEND outreach work, for example from special schools to support learners in mainstream schools?
- How effective are the key reforms set out in ‘Stable Homes, Built on Love’ in response to the Care Review that seek to improve the provision of children's social care across Local Authorities? These include recruitment of foster carers, support for kinship carers and provision of children's care placements.
- What are the benefits of and opportunities to improve youth outcomes?
- How do we best support children, young people and their families within the social care system and prevent poor outcomes, including recruiting, retaining and training our workforce?
- How can high quality training and support for the early years workforce improve child outcomes?
- What are the key economic and social costs of homelessness, including the impacts on children, and can they be quantified?
- Improving outcomes for victims and survivors, including children.
- What are the most effective ways of improving the safety (and perceptions of safety) of cyclists and pedestrians (particularly, child and older adult pedestrians who are at greater risk)? How should DfT work with external organisations to support these interventions?
- What types of harmful content exist online, and what is the impact to children’s offline behaviour?
- What are the different ways that outdoor learning can affect young people and how can they be measured?
- How does a child’s journey through different systems of support, and the different qualities of the experiences along the way, serve to protect or expose them to involvement in serious youth violence?
- What works and for whom to prevent and divert children and young people from offending? How effective are community resolutions including Out of Court Disposals?
- Interventions to reduce different types of child sexual abuse.
- Understanding the links between drug markets, county lines and gang violence
- How do the regimes children receive in custody support desistance from crime on release, as well as their wider educational, personal and social development?
- What can we do to support children and their families develop well from birth before entering formal education (and to the start of adulthood for those with SEND)?
- Which school-wide (or school trust-wide) systems, processes, and interventions improve pupil attainment and narrow disadvantage attainment gaps? Applied research might explore, for instance, how leaders use behaviour systems, pupil setting, the length of the school day, and whole-school enrichment interventions.
- How can we best identify and intervene early to support vulnerable children and their families before they enter the social care system?
- What are the challenges and issues facing young people? What are the costs of not addressing these issues/risks, or improving youth outcomes?
- What are the risk factors for children’s involvement in serious violence and what interventions and approaches are most effective in reducing it?
- How effective are the Family Hubs pilots in improving outcomes for young children and their families? What works best to engage families and deliver services?
- How can we better quantify and measure the benefits of social work assessment, training and development in terms of child outcomes such as wellbeing and educational achievement?
- Which parenting programmes are most effective?
- How do schools use in-school units such as SEN Units, Resourced Provision and in-school Alternative Provision to improve pupil outcomes?
- What are the long-term impacts on children’s developmental outcomes because of placements made under public law orders in care proceedings? Including care orders, placement orders, and special guardianship orders?
- How effective are child maintenance and associated policies at supporting separated families, encouraging family-based arrangements, reducing conflict and helping children and adults achieve better outcomes? And how does this differ by group?
- What are the characteristics of the specialist care workforce (e.g. social workers, children's homes, and early help providers)? What are the barriers to specialist staff recruitment and retention, and how can we overcome these?
- Which services, programmes and interventions are effective for improving parenting capacity and quality and the early years home learning environment?
- How do experiences of advertising harm differ across demographics, including across adults and young people?
- How effective are youth justice services at achieving positive, non-justice outcomes that support desistance from offending? How can we better support youth justice services to share information and coordinate their interventions to provide holistic support?
- What are the characteristics of additional needs for children in the early years, with specific consideration of neurodiversity, speech and language, and mental health interventions?