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In addition to running our own networks the Family and Parenting Institute is represented on many advisory groups including:

• 14-19 Advisory Group (DCSF)
• Advisory Group for project with parents with a visual impairment
• Albion Group network (FPI)
• Assessment panel on the impact of the commercial world on children's wellbeing (DCSF)
• Becoming a Mother research Advisory Group (The Open University)
• Becoming Bangladeshi, African Caribbean and White Mothers: Identities in Process Advisory Group (The Open University)
• Changing Social Norms and Family Law (ESRC)
• Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service CAFCASS (CAFCASS)
• Children and Young People's Mental Health UK Training Initiative (Mental Health Foundation)
• Children in Families Sub Committee, Family Justice Council
• Children's Plan 8-13 Expert Group, (DCSF)
• DCSF Information Sharing Advisory Group [shared with Dorit Braun PLP] (DCSF)
• Disability, Pregnancy & Parenthood international (National Centre for Disabled Parents)
• ESRC Families and Community Advisory Group (ESRC)
• ESRC Families and Social Capital Advisory group (ESRC)
• Fabricated or Induced Illness Advisory Group (DoH)
• Family Friendly Prisons (Action for Prisoners Families)
• Family Inter Agency Group (ex Family Policy Forum) (FPI)
• Financial Capability working group (FSA/Treasury)
• Food and Drink Advertising Promotion Forum (Department of Health)
• Government's children's health programme strategy group (Dept of Health and DCSF)
• JRF Contact and Divorce Transitions research project (JRF)
• JRF Parenting and Diversity Advisory Group (JRF)
• JRF Practitioners Assessments Advisory Group (JRF)
• JRF Siblings Research Advisory Group University of South London
• Later Life Judgements Group DCA
• National Family Learning Network
• National Literacy Trust Strategic Forum with National Reading Campaign (National Literacy Trust)
• National Lottery public interest group
• NCC public services forum
• Nuffield Foundation research briefings advisory group Oxford
• Obesity Social Marketing Programme (Department of Health)
• Opinion Leader Research panel (Opinion Leader)
• Pandemic planning for schools group (DCSF)
• Parenting and Family Research Advisory Group (National LSC)
• Parenting Inplementation Project (Kate Shiner, DCSF)
• Parenting Programme Award Committee (JRF)
• Participation Works (children's participation national steering group)
• Project: Understanding Wider Skills
• Public health and Children National Reference Group (Skills for Health)
• SCIE Parting Programmes Advisory Group
• Social Policy Forum
• Stakeholders' Group on Every Child Matters (DCSF)
• Study of Young Fathers Steering Group (Children 1st, Glasgow University)
• SWELL Research Advisory Group (Warwick University)
• Talk to your Baby Advisory Group (National Literacy Trust)
• Thomas Coram Research Unit Advisory Committee (Thomas Coram)

We also serve on research and research grant advisory groups for

• Southbank, Leeds, Warwick and Oxford Universities
• Joseph Rowntree Foundation
• the Open University
• the Thomas Coram Research Unit at the Institute of Education.