A UK-wide survey of family group conference provision

Wood, Sophie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9816-6663, Scourfield, Jonathan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6218-8158, Au, Kar, Evans, Rhiannon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0239-6331, Jones-Williams, Delyth, Lugg-Widger, Fiona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0029-9703, McCormack, Eve, Meindl, Melissa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1231-0175, Pallmann, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8274-9696, Robling, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1004-036X, Schroeder, Elizabeth-Ann, Petrou, Stavros and Wilkins, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2780-0385 2022. A UK-wide survey of family group conference provision. [Project Report]. Cardiff: CASCADE.

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Abstract

A family group conference (FGC) in child welfare brings immediate and wider family members together to decide on the best way to meet the needs of a child who requires support and/or protection. Unlike professionally-led meetings, including child protection case conferences, FGCs aim to share decision-making with family members. FGCs have the two primary aims of increasing family participation in important decisions about children and reducing more intrusive state intervention. Evidence about the outcomes of FGCs and more broadly, family group decision-making, is mixed, however (McGinn et al., 2020; Nurmatov et al., 2020), and variation in quality and context might explain the mixed results. This report is part of a multi-method evaluation of FGCs (see Scourfield et al. 2022 for more details). The main purpose of this report is to map the coverage of FGC services in the UK and identify how practice may vary between authorities and what contextual factors may cause such variation.

Item Type:	Monograph (Project Report)
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Children’s Social Care Research and Development Centre (CASCADE) Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Publisher:	CASCADE
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	31 July 2024
Last Modified:	07 Aug 2024 15:46
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/171051

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