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Child and Family Welfare Research Unit

Following significant recent successes in obtaining grants from the Home Office, the Welsh Assembly, the ESRC and local authorities, work focussing on Children's Services  within the area of Vulnerable Children and Young People has brought together with the Child and Family Welfare Research Unit.  The Unit focuses on policy and practice orientated research relating to children in need (including children in public care) and their families.

It provides a "home" within the University of Bedfordshire for academic staff and postgraduate students with research interests in child and family welfare and children's services.

The Unit is also developing a new professional doctorate in Child Welfare and Leadership in Children's Services. 

Staff in the Unit have an international reputation for their work in the fields of:

• child maltreatment and safeguarding children,
• family support,
• working with parental substance misuse,
• adoption and looked after children,
• the experiences of unaccompanied minors.

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