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Child and Family Welfare Research Unit

The Unit is based at the University of Bedfordshire and led by Dr Donald Forrester,  It has been highly successful in obtaining research funding. Since 2001 members of the Unit have received grants from:

• Economic and Social Research Council
• Nuffield Foundation
• Department for Education and Skills
• Alcohol Education and Research Council
• British Council
• NSPCC
• Welsh Assembly Government
• Youth Justice Board
• various local authorities or voluntary agencies.

Research collaborations have included working with colleagues at Birmingham, Bristol, Brunel, Cardiff, the Institute of Psychiatry, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Al Balqa and Hashemite Universities (Jordan). The Unit is represented on several government groups, offering research advice and contributing towards developing child welfare policy. It plays a leading role in the national Making Research Count initiative, which is a partnership between the universities of East Anglia, Keele, London Royal Holloway, Luton, Nottingham, Salford, Warwick, York and the Open University. Its aim is to strengthen the links between research and social work practice, with eight regional local authorities combining with the University of Bedfordshire to promote this work

Calder Social Work Training and Consultancy

Martin C Calder MA, CQSW has worked in the field of child protection and child welfare for over 20 years. He has operated as a specialist child protection social worker, child protection coordinator and latterly as Operations Manager for the Child Protection Unit with Salford City Council. He has also worked as a lecturer on the Child Care Award at the University of Salford. He has written and published a wide range of very influential material around policy and procedural issues in the child care field and has developed a number of accessible, evidence-based assessment tools for frontline workers

www.abuselaw.co.uk

A team of solicitors and ancillary staff committed to helping the victims of abuse claim their legal rights and find whatever legal remedies are available to them. This website aims to provide easy access to information for child and adult survivors of physical, sexual and psychological abuse on all aspects of this complex area of law.

The Association of Child Abuse Lawyers

The Association of Child Abuse Lawyers is a company limited by guarantee set up for the benefit of lawyers, experts and other professionals involved in the field of obtaining compensation for the physical, sexual or emotional abuse of children and adults abused in childhood, as well as the mentally handicapped and others directly or indirectly affected by that abuse. The Association began in late 1997 as a result of concerns within the legal profession that people who have been abused were either unable to find lawyers to take on their cases or were experiencing poor standards of advice and assistance from those lawyers whom they had instructed.

Amy Ayre