Centre for Family Policy and Child Welfare
The Centre for Family Policy and Child Welfare (CFPCW) is a focus for research and teaching in child welfare and family policy. Our members have backgrounds in social policy, social work, sociology and psychology.
Main themes include:parenting; looked after children/children in care; fostering, adoption and kinship care; child protection; family support; social and emotional learning; education of children in care; teenage intimate partner violence ('dating violence'); and teenage pregnancy and parenting.
The Centre also hosts The Hadley Centre for Adoption and Foster Care Studies.
You can find out more about our research, funders, projects and staff on these pages.