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Looked after children as decision makers : family group conferences in practice (2019)
Journal Article
Edwards, D., Parkinson, K., Fisher, T., & Owen, J. (2020). Looked after children as decision makers : family group conferences in practice. Child Care in Practice, 26(3), 318-330. https://doi.org/10.1080/13575279.2019.1575186

Family Group Conferences (FGCs) are a family-led approach to social care decision making. The fundamental philosophy behind FGCs is that families are the experts on their own situations and as such should lead decision-making. The model advocates tha... Read More about Looked after children as decision makers : family group conferences in practice.

Family group conferences : an opportunity to re-frame responses to the abuse of older people? (2018)
Journal Article
Parkinson, K., Pollock, S., & Edwards, D. (2018). Family group conferences : an opportunity to re-frame responses to the abuse of older people?. British Journal of Social Work, 48(4), 1109-1126. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcy048

Recent legislative and policy changes in adult social care have refocused attention on a strengths-based approach to social work practice. The Care Act 2014 advocates a more inclusive and holistic understanding of individual well-being, which is evi... Read More about Family group conferences : an opportunity to re-frame responses to the abuse of older people?.

Balancing justice and welfare needs in family group conferences for children with harmful sexual behaviour : the HSB-FGC framework (2018)
Journal Article
Anderson, M., & Parkinson, K. (2018). Balancing justice and welfare needs in family group conferences for children with harmful sexual behaviour : the HSB-FGC framework. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 27(5), 490-509. https://doi.org/10.1080/10538712.2018.1477217

In England and Wales, family group conferences (FGCs) are most often found either in the field of youth justice or in the field of child protection, and consequently often have priorities in line with either one of the two systems. On the one hand, F... Read More about Balancing justice and welfare needs in family group conferences for children with harmful sexual behaviour : the HSB-FGC framework.

Exploring approaches to child welfare in contexts of domestic violence and abuse : family group conferences (2017)
Journal Article
Rogers, M., & Parkinson, K. (2018). Exploring approaches to child welfare in contexts of domestic violence and abuse : family group conferences. Child and Family Social Work, 23(1), 105-112. https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.12389

This article sets out to explore service provision for families affected by domestic violence and abuse (DVA). For most families where there are child protection concerns, there are possibilities for intervention from child welfare agencies and domes... Read More about Exploring approaches to child welfare in contexts of domestic violence and abuse : family group conferences.

Addressing domestic abuse through family group conferences
Book Chapter
Parkinson, K., & Rogers, M. Addressing domestic abuse through family group conferences. In D. Edwards, & K. Parkinson (Eds.), Family group conferences in social work Involving families in social care decision making. Bristol: Policy Press

This chapter explores the problem of domestic violence and abuse (DVA) and how it can be managed, in combination with mainstream statutory child protection processes, in a democratic structure: the family group conference.