Children, Schools & Families

Drawing on the many different strands of our research, this summary reveals that more children than previously believed experience poverty...

Childcare providers in disadvantaged areas face challenges in terms of remaining sustainable and improving quality ...

Gives an estimate of the number of young people (aged 11-15) absent from state school because of severe experiences of bullying...

A study which fed into the production of guidelines for Special Schools delivering the National Healthy Schools enhancement model...

Mapping patterns of worklessness across successive generations...

The Department of Health funded this scoping and analysis project, which builds on a scoping study previously undertaken by the Policy Studies Institute.

This study explores how unmarried parents make choices and decisions about sole or joint birth registration...

This study sets out to draw a detailed picture of what very young children eat ...

The Offending Crime & Justice study examined offences, anti-social behaviour and drug use among young people.

This report presents findings from our study of parents’ experiences of the Special Educational Needs system...

This review is aimed at providing a comprehensive understanding of the key characteristics of ‘what works’ in terms of early interventions to prevent or reduce youth crime or anti-social behaviour.

The evaluation of the South West Healthy Schools Plus (SWHSP) initiative is being carried out on behalf of the Department of Health (DH) and the Government Office for the South West (GOSW).

This study aims to analyse how the take-up of early years provision varies by different dimensions of disadvantage and the main barriers experienced by disadvantaged families.

The Big Eat In Follow-Up Study is a qualitative study in relation to lunch time stay-on-site policies.

This study reports on the characteristics and outcomes of young children living in persistent poverty in Scotland.

Many areas of life influence the health and wellbeing of families. This study sought to identify some of the evidence about what is known to influence family wellbeing.

The largest social research study of its kind in the world with 40,000 households - 100,000 individuals - taking part across the UK...