Religion and Parenting Practices

Religious beliefs, practices and membership have received increased attention in the UK over recent years. This paper reviews the theory and empirical evidence on the linkages...

Family Support in Extended Schools

This paper highlights key findings from a new Family and Parenting Institute study into how extended schools provide family support.

Family Support in Extended Schools - Summary

This useful short summary discusses the key points in Family Support in Extended Schools

Family Support in Children's Centres

This groundbreaking study explores the planning and delivery of family support in Children's Centres, including parenting courses, outreach and home visits, support groups, family...

Evaluating evaluations

Recent evaluations of two UK early intervention programmes, Sure Start and Home-Start, have been the subject of considerable attention

Attachment and the Perils of Parenting

Does Attachment Theory really say that babies will be psychologically damaged if they do not have 24/7 attention from their mothers? Or that the first few years of life are...

Parents' involvement in their children's learning and schools

A timely survey of the current evidence around issues of parental involvement, offering a comprehensive overview of models and initiatives designed to engage parents in their...

Families and the state: two-way support and responsibilities

Although outcomes for most children are good, the psychosocial problems for children in the UK remain worryingly high, with particular concerns existing over child poverty,...

Aspirations and Expectations

Large numbers of children and young people are still missing out on opportunities. The dilemma is that as chances are improving for the majority, the gap may be increasing between...

Fathers' Involvement in their Children's Education

This major report includes good practice case studies, and takes the most comprehensive look to date at UK fathers' involvement in their school-aged children's learning and...

UK Family Trends 1994-2004

This report covers the decade 1994-2004, the ten years since the first International Year of the Family. It sets changes during the decade in the wider context of longer term...

Parent Information Point: Evaluation of the Pilot Phase

Published in May 2004 this report presents the evaluation of the PIP pilot scheme which provided innovative parent information sessions in schools.

Fathers and Family Support

This report provides an updated review of what is known about the role of fathers in relation to their families and family support interventions.

Supporting Minority Ethnic Families

this research study looks in detail at British South Asian and Hindu families, who comprise the largest South Asian communities in Britain. It combines an overview of previous...

Reaching Parents

To what extent is information for parents designed and offered in a way that meets their needs and requirements? This new study, based on research with parents of children of...

Understanding Discipline

An overview of child discipline practices and their implications for family support
A report by Clem Henricson and Anna Grey, published in June 2001.

National Mapping of Family Services in England and Wales

The results of a national mapping exercise of parenting and family services in England and Wales.

Parenting 'mixed' children: negotiating difference and belonging in mixed race, ethnicity and faith families

The report aims to provide insights about parenting mixed children to inform debates about family life and professional strategies for support.It is based on a research study...

Parenting 'mixed' children: difference and belonging in mixed faith and race families - Summary of findings

A summary of the findings of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation report, Parenting 'mixed' children.

In conversation with Muslim Dads

This report is based on a number of regional workshops held by An-Nisa Society and Fathers Direct. It details how Muslim fathers feelings about and experiences of parenting;...

Evaluating evaluations: evaluating recent evaluations of Sure Start, Home-Start and Primary Age Learning Study

Recent evaluations of two UK early intervention programmes, Sure Start and Home-Start, have been the subject of considerable attention. The programmes have aimed to boost...

Managing the move to secondary school: children's relationship with social capital

Examines the move from primary to secondary school from a child's perspective, considering how children use their own social capital to negotiate their way through what has become...

Families, social capital and Caribbean young people's diasporic identity

Explores how Caribbean young people utilise the family and social networks to develop and reproduce notions of ethnic solidarity and identity.

Transnational South Asian families: rituals, care and provision

Explores the functioning the role of rituals and the practices and provision of care within South Asian families but extends to considerations of the role of agencies, for example...

Italian families and social capital: rituals and the provision of care in British-Italian transactions

Explores the functioning of mutual and reciprocal relations related to care, the role of rituals, the problems of aging and the formation of transnational identities for Italian...

New geographies and new networks: increasing independence and the move to secondary school

Uses the child perspective, exploring how children view their experiences of increasing independence and developing social networks. Includes a consideration of the challenges...

Youth transitions and social change

Aims to identify ‘critical moments’ in the construction of adult identities and how these might be implicated in processes of social inclusion and exclusion by either opening or...

Locality, school and social capital

Seeks to examine the way children’s social networks are sustained through schooling and their contribution to local social capital in different types of communities

Where do parents turn for advice? An overview of research findings at the National Family and Parenting Institute

A research project looking into where parents get advice on how to care for their children.

The future for family services in England and Wales: consultation responses to the Mapping Report

The results of a national mapping exercise of parenting and family services in England and Wales. Issued as a consultation document in 2001,

Soaps and the family

The conclusions from a piece of research which looks at soaps and the effect which, if any, they have upon families and people in society, as well as seeing how well they compare...

The future of family services

Results of a national mapping exercise of parenting and family services in England and Wales. Issued as a consultation document in 2001

Lesson Learned: Transition Information Sessions Pilot Phase One

Gathers together written and verbal feedback from local authority lead co-ordinators, facilitators, school staff and parents. The bulk of the report is structured around the...

Lesson Learned: Transition Information Sessions Pilot Phase One

Gathers together written and verbal feedback from local authority lead co-ordinators, facilitators, school staff and parents. The bulk of the report is structured around the...