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News Family Focus - the Family and Parenting newsletter Archived newsletters September 07 newsletterWelcome to September's issue of the Family and Parenting Institute's newsletter.
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1. News
2. Family Policy Digest
3. Horizon scan
4. Forward look
5. Notice board
6. Consultations
1. News
Narrowing the gap between rich and poor must involve schools, families and communities
A new report released Monday 3 September 2007 by the National Children's Bureau, Family and Parenting Institute, and the Institute of Education sets out new ideas of how we can 'narrow the gap' between rich and poor.
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Back to school
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has recently published a series of reports on children's experiences of poverty and educational disadvantage, including education for those permanently excluded from school.JRF
For children excluded from school parents will now be required to keep pupils under supervision for the first five days of an exclusion or face a fine of up to £100.BBC
Meanwhile the Citizen's Advice Bureau continues to highlight the issue of the cost of school uniforms and school trips.CAB
REACH group reports on raising the aspirations of black boys and young men
The report, commissioned by the Department for Communities and Local Government, recommends that the Government should introduce a structured national role model programme for Black boys and young Black men.Reach
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2. Digest
This month's digest includes a series of literature reviews from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation on aspects of parenting, a study of the environmental impacts on children's wellbeing and reports on advertising to children.
Items from all Family Policy Digests can now be found through the improved search engine on the website, with keywords at the end of each item linking to related items in previous months.
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3. Horizon scan
Future FPI publications
The National Academy for Parenting Practitioners
The Academy is due to launch in late October and is about to begin its research programme looking at what works in parenting services. Findings will directly inform training and policy, to ensure that parenting support in England is world class.Money markets – their effect on family life
Money markets are already strongly in the press though their impact on individual families lives is being acknowledged.
The Independent
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4. Events calendar - Forward look
Check here for upcoming events in the family and parenting world. Please let us know of your forthcoming events so we can include them.More
Money markets – their effect on family life
Money markets are already strongly in the press though their impact on individual families lives is being acknowledged.
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5. Notice board
Parents' Week 2007 - free handy guide to working with vulnerable families
Monday 15th – Sunday 21st October
Copies of our guide to working with vulnerable families are still available here
Turning Lives Around Conference 2007
What works for vulnerable families
Monday 15 October 2007, 9.30-5.30pm
Church House, Deans Yard, Westminster, London SW1P 3NZ
Professionals working with vulnerable and hard-to-reach families can make a difference and families can turn their lives around.
Book a place at our conference
Gingerbread's New Group Network
Gingerbread is piloting a new Gingerbread Group Network to support people who want to work with (or already work with) groups of lone parent families.For more information about joining the Network please contact Gingerbread
latest guidance topics that will be developed by the Centre for Public Health Excellence, and to invite your organisation to register as a stakeholder for the appropriate topics.
Stakeholder Involvement - 15th Wave NICE Public Health Guidance
The Department of Health has asked the Institute to develop and publish the following Public Health Guidance on immunisation, needle exchange and alcohol use disorders Organisations wishing to register an interest in any of the new or existing Public Health Guidance topics please complete the registration form on the NICE website at:.
Our new publications
- Family Support in Extended Schools: Planning, Commissioning and Delivery
By Joanna Apps, Val Ashby and Matt Baumann.
This important report examines how a sample of schools have developed their family support services. Parenting courses, support groups and adult education are included.
- Religion and Parenting Practices: a research review
By Harriet Becher
A thoughtful review of the evidence on the linkages between religion and the family, addressing key questions about the role of religion in families' lives. Useful to researchers and practitioners working with religious families.More
Early Learning Partnership Project newsletter
The early learning partnership project has launched their newsletter.
View this newsletter online at ELPP
Work for us
We now have four great opportunities to work in this particularly important and current area of public policy for people with a genuine interest in parenting policy, research and communications.
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6. Consultations
Confidence and confidentiality: Openness in family courts a new approach
This is the second consultation on improving openness in family courts. This paper sets out what the Ministry is taking forward from the last consultation, and seeks views on new proposals to improve the openness in family courts.
Deadline: 01/10/2007Ministry of Justice
Time to Talk
This consultation is focused on capturing a range of feedback about how the Department can deliver better outcomes for children, young people and their families.
Deadline:19/10/2007DCSF
In work, better off: next steps to full employment
This Green Paper on welfare reform proposes that from October 2008, lone parents with a youngest child aged 12 or over will no longer be entitled to Income Support solely on the grounds of being a lone parent and would have to transfer to Jobseeker's Allowance.Deadline: 31/10/2007
Staying Safe
This consultation from the Department for Children, Schools and Families provides an overview of Government policies to keep children safe from a range of risks including abuse, accidents, crime, bullying, domestic violence and online risksDeadline: 31/10/2007
DCSF
Social evils
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation would like to hear from people about what they believe to be the social problems that cause the most damage to British society as a whole or the most misery to its people. www.socialevils.org.uk to leave your views.
Suzie Peleg
Information and Website Manager
www.familyandparenting.org
September 2007
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