Policy briefings

• ‘Substituted parenting’ in the family courts
  ‘Substituted parenting’ in the family courts: “too much” support for parents with learning disabilities considered harmful for children.
• Torture definition
  Women refugees disproportionately impacted by narrow definitions of ‘torture’

• Adult safeguarding practices
  Mental Capacity, Self-Neglect, and Adult Safeguarding Practices: Evidence Synthesis and Agenda for Change
• Prison healthcare services
  Urgent reforms are needed for prison healthcare services after a decade of austerity
• Changes needed to prison services
  After a decade of austerity, urgent changes are needed to improve prison services

• Information for carers during Covid
  Online information and advice to carers during the Covid-19 pandemic
• COVID-19 food insecurities
  COVID-19: Local coordination delivered emergency food, but food plans must address food insecurity
• Preventing childhood obesity
  We can’t prevent childhood obesity by education alone: lessons from the evidence base

• Child neglect in Namibia
  Professional understandings of child neglect in Namibia
• Informal care arrangements for children
  Children in informal care arrangements with extended family: messages for best practice in Namibia
• West African Tramadol trade
  Exploring hidden narratives in the West African Tramadol trade and transport of migrants
• Supporting Children in Need and Children in Care
  Children in Need and Children in Care: Educational Attainment and Progress
• Bristol's mayoral system
  Mayoral governance in Bristol: Has it made a difference?

• Learning Disabilities Mortality Review
  National and local policies still need strengthening: findings from the Learning Disabilities Mortality Review
• The importance of being Dad
  The importance of being Dad: services working with families should recognise and support all fathers, including those with learning difficulties
• Bristol Eating Better Award Scheme
  Rewarding food businesses that promote healthier and sustainable eating: Lessons learned from the Bristol Eating Better Award evaluation
• Loneliness among older men
  Addressing older men’s experiences of loneliness and social isolation in later life
• Measuring living standards
  Economic and social well-being in the UK: how living standards should be measured
• The Trans Ageing and Care (TrAC) project
  Ensuring trans people in Wales receive dignified and inclusive health and social care in later life: The Trans Ageing and Care (TrAC) project, 2016-18
• Addressing asylum harms
  Reimagining refugee rights: addressing asylum harms in Britain, Denmark and Sweden
• Approaches to FGM-safeguarding
  “Stigmatising” and “traumatising” approaches to FGM-safeguarding need urgent review