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.

Contact the Centre

Centre Head: Professor David Berridge

Centre and Research Co-ordinator: Melanie Tomlin

About the Centre

• Our research and funders
• Research projects
• Staff
• Postgraduates
• The Hadley Centre for Adoption and Foster Care Studies

Centre announcements

• "Children Behaving Badly?" A new book looks at the implications of peer violence for professionals working with children and young people
• National Anti-Bullying Week - Christine Barter interviewed on BBC Radio Bristol
• Adoption expert, Dr Julie Selwyn, quoted in the Times

Other news and events from around the School.