We are delighted to announce that the Rees Centre has been appointed as the Department for Education's research partner to deliver the evaluation of two new initiatives in Virtual Schools....
Saturday, October 16, 2021
Dr Neil Harrison, Deputy Director For some years now, prospective students applying through the UCAS system have been given the option of declaring whether or not they are care-experienced. Aside...
Monday, July 26, 2021
A significant, new research programme will investigate factors linked to the mental health and wellbeing of care-experienced young people during two transition periods: moving from primary to secondary school and moving from adolescence into...
Monday, June 28, 2021
I am delighted to chair the evidence group for Josh MacAlister’s review of the care system, described by the Secretary of State who launched it as a “wide-ranging, independent review...
Friday, June 18, 2021
The Rees Centre has been awarded £122,780 to explore the pathways into and through higher education for young people who were allocated a social worker when they were children –...
Tuesday, May 18, 2021
Knowledge as the Anchor In a recent conversation with one of our Derbyshire Attachment Aware Schools (AAS) they said - ‘AAS has been our anchor during this COVID pandemic storm’...
Thursday, April 22, 2021
Leon Feinstein, Director of the Rees Centre, was delighted to invite the independent care review (ICR) team to a virtual meeting at the Rees Centre on Tuesday 23 March, to...
Friday, March 26, 2021
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Leon Feinstein to the role of Director of the Rees Centre. He will take up this post from 18 January 2021....
Monday, January 18, 2021
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Monday, October 19, 2020
Dr Neil Harrison, Deputy Director of the Rees Centre The team in the Department for Education (DfE) that produces statistics on progression to higher education have really upped their game...
Tuesday, September 1, 2020
Tuesday, July 21, 2020
By Celine Gross, associate at Social Finance. Part of a series published by the Rees Centre on data (see below for related posts). As a data scientist focusing on Children’s...
Thursday, July 2, 2020
Monday, June 22, 2020
By Ellie Suh (Research Officer, Rees Centre, Department of Education) The Cost Calculator for Children’s Services (CCfCS, or Cost Calculator) is a research-based purpose-built tool that helps local authorities to...
Thursday, June 11, 2020
The team at NeuroLove introduce their new online platform, created to help young people stay emotionally and physically well. This guest post is published by the Rees Centre during the...
Thursday, May 14, 2020
The team behind the Oxfordshire Kindness Wave explain how the idea of a kindness parcel was born, each containing a message of hope, creativity for comfort, kindness with chocolate and...
Wednesday, May 13, 2020
Thursday, May 7, 2020
Nikki Luke of the Rees Centre explains why the group of children known as 'Children in Need' should receive more attention in policy and research. This is one of the...
Monday, April 27, 2020
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By Aneesha Wadhwa, Executive Director, Udayan Care India and Chevening Fellow, Dept of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford. The International Care Leavers Convention in India 2020 is a path breaking, first of its kind in...
Thursday, January 30, 2020
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Monday, December 16, 2019
What pathways do care experienced students take after graduation? asks Neil Harrison...getting care experienced students into higher education is only part of the story. Read more
Friday, December 13, 2019
Wednesday, December 11, 2019
The inaugural Rees Centre Annual Lecture 2019 was delivered by a panel of speakers on the topic of school exclusions and issues for looked after and adopted children. Harry Daniels,...
Thursday, December 5, 2019
Wednesday, December 4, 2019
Tuesday, November 26, 2019
Monday, November 25, 2019
Lisa Holmes, Associate Professor and Director of the Rees Centre comments on the use of algorithms in children's social care
Thursday, November 21, 2019
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Professor Judy Sebba Children in need are half as likely to achieve strong passes in English and Maths GCSE, when controlling for SEN, low income, ethnicity, EAL and school moves,...
Monday, October 21, 2019
Monday, October 21, 2019
Monday, October 14, 2019
The educational outcomes of children in care continue to be a concern in all countries in which relevant data are collected. In this special edition of the Oxford Review of...
Monday, October 14, 2019
This special edition (open access until Feb 2020) presents a range of research reported at the ESRC Seminar Series on Fostering Teenagers, co-hosted by the Rees Centre. Each paper is followed by...
Monday, October 14, 2019
Tuesday, August 13, 2019
Neil Harrison has received the annual ‘Editors’ Choice’ award from the British Educational Research Journal for his article titled ‘Challenging discourses of aspiration: the role of expectations and attainment in...
Wednesday, July 31, 2019
A snapshot of our activities over the last 2 months. Rees Centre newsletter for July: Including launch of outcomes framework funded by the Nuffied Foundation.
Wednesday, July 24, 2019
How do we know if children's social care services make a difference? The development of an Outcomes Framework based on the views of those who plan, deliver and use these services,...
Friday, July 12, 2019
This article was first published on The Conversation on 24 May 2019. Author: Dr Neil Harrison, Rees Centre. After years of decline, school exclusions are on the rise again, according...
Thursday, June 20, 2019
Theconversation.com Article by Neil Harrison (Deputy Director of the Rees Centre and Associate Professor, University of Oxford) Read Now
Friday, June 14, 2019
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Thursday, May 23, 2019
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Wednesday, May 15, 2019
Wednesday, May 15, 2019
The Rees Centre and The Alan Turing Institute will be partnering with the What Works Centre for Children’s Social Care for the ethics review of machine learning in children’s social care. The What Works...
Sunday, May 12, 2019
Care leavers’ transition into the labour market in England This new study, led by the Rees Centre with the University of York and funded by the Nuffield Foundation, will be...
Saturday, May 11, 2019
Thursday, May 9, 2019
Neil Harrison and Julie Selwyn We have primarily focused in the past on the education of children within the social care system – and mainly those who are being fostered. We will...
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
Wednesday, April 3, 2019
Richard Glenny is the Deputy Head of Priestlands School in the New Forest, a large secondary school with 1250 students and more than 150 staff. Richard gave a Rees Centre webinar...
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
Do care leavers enter higher education with the same propensity as other young people? Neil Harrison (Deputy Director of Rees Centre for Fostering and Education) explains why the data we currently use...
Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Wednesday, January 16, 2019
wonkhe.com Opinion piece co-authored by Neil Harrison (Deputy Director of the Rees Centre for Fostering and Education). Read now.
Friday, January 11, 2019
The department is delighted to welcome Neil Harrison as Senior Researcher in Education and Children’s Social Care and Deputy Director of the Rees Centre for Fostering and Education. Neil joins...
Monday, November 12, 2018
Times Higher Education Neil Harrison (Deputy Director of the Rees Centre and Senior Researcher) quoted in a THE article on social mobility in HE. Read now.
Thursday, September 27, 2018
Sir John Timpson led an online webinar on 27 June 2018. He explained his personal experiences with his late wife Alex of fostering 90 children and adopting two and their lightbulb moment...
Thursday, July 5, 2018
Thursday, May 3, 2018
Duncan Roberts, head teacher of Maple Cross Primary School, Hertfordshire, presented a webinar on 26 March 2018 outlining his school’s involvement in attachment training. Context Duncan outlined his schools’ context and leadership...
Thursday, April 19, 2018
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