Acknowledgements
The research team wish to thank the Office of the Children’s Commissioner whocommissioned the research, and in particular Jenny Clifton, for her insightful commentsand support throughout the course of the project.We are also indebted to the research advisory group for their expertise and advice andfor generously donating their time to overseeing this study: Kate Mulley, Wendy Banks,Professor Stan Tucker, Jennifer Sarumi and Jennifer Ugbomah.We are most grateful to Sue Bailey for help with the analysis and to Professor JuneThoburn who acted as a consultant to the project.Our thanks also go to those who, for reasons of confidentiality, cannot be named; theparticipation staff and managers in the two participating agencies who were committedto the project and who helped us to recruit families within a very tight timescale. Inparticular, we would like to thank the participation staff who were instrumental inensuring that the workshop was a success.Our thanks go to the young people who took part in the project as members of theadvisory group and made many insightful comments about our plans and findings. Wewould also like to thank the consultation group in one local authority who piloted thematerials. The young researchers, Sam Cliffe and Dullal Ali, who helped to run theworkshop did a fantastic job and we would like to thank them for their enthusiasm andcommitment. We would also like to thank Sally Bartolo for her help with the youngpeople’s version of the report.Finally we would like to thank the children and young people who spoke to us sogenerously about their experiences and their families for allowing us into their homes.We hope that this report does justice to their experiences.
Authors
Jeanette Cossar, Dr Marian Brandon and Peter Jordan are members of the Centre forResearch on the Child and Family in the School of Social Work and Psychology at theUniversity of East Anglia.
Office of the Children’s Commissioner: ‘Don’t make assumptions’: Children’s and young people’sviews of the child protection system and messages for change
March 2011
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