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🌟 We’ve launched a new report from the Children’s Information Project on what ethical & effective use of children’s information looks like & how it can be improved.

The report introduces a practical framework & 8 essential practices.

➡️Read report: https://t.co/G6QMo5987S

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Thank you Assistant Professor Caroline Spaas for presenting at today’s Rees lunchtime webinar.

If you missed her webinar on Relational Poverty Perspectives, the recording is now available to watch https://t.co/ci88TEamhW

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👋Join us for this free talk on relational poverty, offering new ways to think about families, services, & inequality.

🗓️27 Jan, 12.30pm | In-person or Online

Register now https://t.co/SjIPpTGs4z

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This year marks the centenary of the Adoption of Children Act 1926; the 1st legislation to enable the legal adoption of children in England & Wales.

Rees Emeritus Prof Harriet Ward discusses its significance on BBC Woman's Hour.

🎧 Listen (at 27:06): https://t.co/QGLQnDe2Cu

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🎉 A big welcome to our 2 new Senior Research Fellows; Bachar Alrouh and Sarah Gorin.

Bachar’s research explores how family justice and children’s social care shape educational pathways and life outcomes, while Sarah will work on the Children’s Information Project.

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Season’s greetings from the team at the Rees Centre. Wishing you a joyful holiday season and a great start to the New Year.

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👏 A huge thank you to Emeritus Professor Julie Selwyn for presenting at our Rees lunchtime webinar on Tuesday, 'Family Routes – Growing Up in Adoptive and Special Guardianship Families'.

🔗 Recording and slides: https://t.co/3fvqcLC2ub

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🎉 From 1 Jan 2026, Dr Ian Thompson will take up the role of interim Director of the Rees Centre.

This follows the news that Prof Leon Feinstein will transition into his new position as Director of the Department of Education.

👉 Read more: https://t.co/3OR5wxLdIz

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👋 Join us next week for the Rees Centre's Lunchtime Webinar Series: Family Routes – Growing Up in Adoptive and Special Guardianship Families with Professor Julie Selwyn.

👉 Register: https://t.co/NnYY9HPzqx

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👏 Congratulations to former Rees Centre researcher Dr Áine Kelly, whose Doctoral work has helped to inform the new Initial Health Assessment Delivery Standards from @CoramBAAF.

Read more: https://t.co/BIEDVQ4Yry

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📢 Our new report calls for a complete rethink of how we measure success for young people leaving care.

The study highlights how current national data frameworks ignore the emotional realities of entering adulthood from care.

Read story & report: https://t.co/KUvYyq5zbq

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This month, we're proud to join others across the UK in celebrating National Care Leavers Month.

We'll be publishing our reports on:
⭐️"Success – whose definition counts?" commissioned by @BecomeCharity
⭐️Children's Information Project funded by @NuffieldFound

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📢 We’re excited to welcome Dr Birgit Larsson tomorrow for our webinar, “Adolescents in Care – Needs, Pathways, and Engagement in Multiple and Interacting Systems.”

➡️ Join us online: https://t.co/EoHFPWqCtA

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Rees researcher Dr Priya Tah, Anam Raja (Kinship) and Emmanuel Onapa sharing stories and research on the experiences of Black and Asian kinship carers at CoramBAAF's recent Kinship Care Conference.

Photo by CoramBAAF

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👉Excited to share our new academic article, co-authored with care-experienced members and partners at Become, which focuses on what ’success’ means for young adults, and how this can be applied to care leavers.

➡️Read more: https://t.co/zYPAhnWQHc

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At the recent EuSARF Conference, researchers Priya Tah and Teresa Williams shared insights from the Raised by Relatives project during the Kinship Symposium on international approaches to kinship foster care.

🔗 You can read the blog here: https://t.co/NnAvJJx3To

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👋NEW: Our latest report explores how extending the duties of Virtual School Heads (VSHs) to include children with a social worker (CWSW) has been implemented across England from Oct 2022 - Nov 2024.

Read more: https://t.co/97hytBauhj

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👏 Huge congratulations to Rees DPhil student Janique Charles, winner of the Best Student PhD Poster at #EUSARF2025!

Her winning poster is on “Young Voices: Understanding the Subjective Well-Being of Children in Caribbean Transnational Families”.

https://t.co/6d12khFEXD

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One of our researchers organised a symposium at #EuSARF2025 with Prof Gillian Schofield: Belonging & becoming – Rethinking children’s identity in foster care & adoption.

👉 Read her blog: https://t.co/EWGzxvvruo