New funding for work to support children and families
Published: 19 May 2022
Mental Health and Wellbeing's Prof Helen Minnis, working jointly with NSPCC's Matt Forde, has received funding to develop an intervention to support families with young children who have a social worker
Mental Health and Wellbeing's Prof Helen Minnis, working jointly with NSPCC's Matt Forde, has received funding to develop an intervention to support families with young children who have a social worker
What Works for Children’s Social Care has funded a new project called Partnership for Change.
This will see a team from University of Glasgow, Queen Mary University London and NSPCC work together with parent collaborators to co-develop an intervention to support families whose young children have a social worker.
The first phase of the project will see Parent Collaborators take the lead on the development of an intervention – Child and Parent Support (CAPS) – that will assess children and their parents’ mental health and living circumstances, and offer treatment, support and information matched to those needs.
Phase 2 will be a feasibility RCT (randomised controlled trial) of CAPS, with some of the measures also designed or chosen by the parent collaborators.
Commenting on the work that lies ahead, Prof Helen Minnis – joint principal investigator with Matt Forde at NSPCC – said:
We are very excited about this project which is a truly innovative approach to working in partnership with parents, to develop support that could really make a difference to them, and research which includes meaningful measures of change.
First published: 19 May 2022