April 2023 - October 2024
Completed Projects
Understanding and responding to the needs of kinship families from Black and Asian communities
Working in partnership with Kinship and supported by the KPMG Foundation this study will focus on kinship carers from Black and Asian communities, using interviews and standardised measures to better understand their experiences and needs and provide recommendations for practice and policy.
Evaluation of the Pupil Premium Plus Post-16 Programme
September 2022 - March 2025
The Rees Centre is working in partnership with Cordis Bright on an evaluation for the Department for Education of its Pupil Premium Plus Post-16 programme.
Future of Care
November 2021 - October 2024
National charity, Become, is working with the Rees Centre to develop a new tool to measure the success of care leavers.
Evaluation of the expanded duties of virtual schools
October 2021 - March 2025
This project will focus on the evaluation of two new policy initiatives announced in Summer 2021, with the Rees Centre being commissioned as the Department for Education’s research partner.
Higher education pathways for young people with a social worker
March 2021 - June 2024
This project will use linked national administrative datasets to build a rich picture of progression into higher education for young people in England who were allocated a social worker at any point after the age of 11.
The Hazel Project Research
April 2020 - December 2020
The Hazel Project research at the Rees Centre aims to explore what constitutes effective fostering for adolescents and examine the evidence base on specialist and therapeutic care for looked after children.
Shared Training and Assessment for Well-Being for Looked-After Children (Feasibility Study)
January 2020 - February 2023
A feasibility study of STrAWB following on from pilot testing.
Concepts of care for separated migrant children
October 2019 - October 2022
This study, led by the Open University, will investigate the care of separated child migrants who arrive in the UK.
Regional Adoption Agencies: an evaluation
April 2019 - December 2021
Local authority adoption services are being replaced by larger regional adoption agencies (RAAs) covering several local authorities.
Care leavers’ transition into the labour market in England
March 2019 - November 2021
This will be the first large scale, national statistical research to be undertaken in England to look at the relationship between care leavers’ participation in education, employment, training or being NEET (Not in Education, Employment or Training) at age 21, and their earlier individual experiences of care and education (before age 16 and after age 16).
Access, retention and graduate outcomes for higher education students with a background of care or family estrangement
November 2018 - September 2019
This study aimed to provide insights into the ways in which a history of care or family estrangement impacts on outcomes for higher education students, including their ability to access higher education, whether they complete their course, the degree result they get and their transition into the labour market.
Family Justice Observatory
April 2018 - June 2019
The Nuffield Family Justice Observatory (FJO) – Development Phase
The Nuffield Family Justice Observatory will improve the use of data and research evidence in the family justice system in England and Wales in order to support the best possible decisions for children.