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Details for Professor David Berridge
| Personal details | |
| Name | Professor David Berridge |
| Job title | Professor of Child & Family Welfare |
| Department | School for Policy Studies University of Bristol |
| Contact details | This expert can be contacted via the University of Bristol Public Relations
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| Qualifications | B.Sc.(Brun.), Ph.D.(Bristol), D.Litt.(Beds), O.B.E |
| Professional details | |
| Keywords | child welfare children in care adolescence residential care foster care institutional child abuse |
| Areas of expertise | I am currently the head of the Centre for Family Policy and Child Welfare (FPCW), which is a focus for research and consultancy in child welfare, family policy and domestic violence. My current research concerns educating young people away from home; anti-social and disturbing behaviour in residential care; and, in association with the NSPCC, exploitation and violence in teenage dating relationships. I joined the School of Policy Studies in September 2005 having previously been Research Director at the National Children's Bureau and Research Fellow at the Dartington Social Research Unit. I have been a member of the government's Adoption and Permanence 'Taskforce' and was awarded the OBE in January 2005 for services to children. |
| Media experience | I have undertaken frequent radio and television broadcasts, nationally and regionally. |