School for Business and Society
- School for Business and Society
- Research
- Social Policy and Social Work research
- Child welfare research group
Child Welfare Research Group
About us
Our expertise
- Children and adolescents within the child protection system
- Young people leaving care for independent adulthood
- Children looked after in foster and residential care
- Adolescents on the edge of care or returning home from care
- Adoption and special guardianship
- Unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in foster care
Themes and projects
What we do
The Child Welfare Research Group specialises in research on children and young people involved with children’s social care.
Research carried out by CWRG researchers over the past thirty years has influenced national and local policy and practice and has had a direct impact on the experiences of children and young people in and leaving care.
People
Who we are
Emeritus Professor Nina Biehal and Jo Dixon co-direct the Child Welfare Research Group.
The group includes leading researchers with international reputations for research and evaluation and highly skilled research fellows with extensive experience of research and evaluation.
- Email - Jo Dixon
- Tel - 01904 32 1275
- Twitter - @UoYChildWelfar1