Statement on Safeguarding Children: Speech by Ed Balls / Department for Children, Schools and Families, 20 November 2008
http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/speeches/search_detail.cfm?ID=846
"This is a transcript of the statement by Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families Ed Balls in the House of Commons on 20 November 2008. He talks about the actions taken since the serious case review into the death of Baby P."

Parenting a Child Who Has Been Sexually Abused: A Guide for Foster and Adoptive Parents / Child Welfare Information Gateway, April 2008
PDF - http://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/f_abused/f_abused.pdf
"Many factors affect how children react to and recover from sexual abuse. Parents play an important role in their children?s recovery. This factsheet includes information to help foster and adoptive parents of children who have been sexually abused. It includes information about child sexual abuse, tips for establishing guidelines for safety and privacy in the family, and guidance on when and how to seek help, if needed."

Women’s Changing Lives: Priorities for the Ministers for Women: One Year On Progress Report / Government Equalities Office, July 2008
PDF - http://www.equalities.gov.uk/publications/7783-TSO-ChangeWomensLives(P).pdf
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Anti-social and other problem behaviours among young children: findings from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children / Home Office, 15 July 2008
PDF - http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs08/rdsolr0208.pdf
Online Report 02/08
Erica Bowen, Jon Heron, Colin Steer
Edited by May El Komy

Family Intervention Projects: An Evaluation of their Design, Set-up and Early Outcomes / DCSF, 10 July 2008
PDF - http://www.dfes.gov.uk/research/data/uploadfiles/ACF44F.pdf
Clarissa White, Martha Warrener, Alice Reeves and Ivana La Valle, National Centre for Social Research
"An evaluation of the Family Intervention Projects has found considerable reductions in the levels of anti-social behaviour and improvements in parenting."

'Benefit erosion' could double child poverty in 20 years, says report/Guardian, Wednesday April 9 2008 http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/apr/09/welfare.socialexclusion?gusrc=rss&feed=politics

"Child poverty could almost double over the next two decades as a result of the government's approach to raising benefits, a report said today.

A study published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation said that increasing benefit payments in line with prices instead of earnings – which has been standard Whitehall practice for many years – was penalising the poor."

Chemical Dependency and the Family / Counsellor Magazine, 4 March 2008
http://www.counselormagazine.com/content/view/677/1/
Robert J. Ackerman

[USA] DASIS: Marital Status and Substance Abuse Treatment Admissions: 2005. / US. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, January 2008
http://ncadistore.samhsa.gov/catalog/productDetails.aspx?ProductID=17755

Drugs: protecting families and communities: How we are working to tackle drugs / Home Office, February 2008
PDF - http://digbig.com/4wnam

Drugs: protecting families and communities: The 2008 drug strategy / Home Office, 27 February 2008
PDF - http://digbig.com/4wmnx
Drugs: protecting families and communities: Action Plan 2008–2011 / Home Office, 27 February 2008
PDF - http://digbig.com/4wmny

Citizenship, reproduction and the state: international marriage and human rights
Citizenship Studies, Volume 12, Issue 1 February 2008 , pages 45 - 54
http://digbig.com/4wmkb
Bryan S. Turner
"The relationship between citizenship, marriage and family has often been overlooked in the social and political theory of citizenship. Intimate domestic life is associated with the private sphere, partly because reproduction itself is thought to depend on the private choices of individuals. While feminist theory has challenged this division between private and public, the absence of any systematic thinking about familial relations, reproduction and citizenship is puzzling."
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Not Seen. Not Heard. Not Guilty. : The Rights and Status of the Children of Prisoners in Scotland / Scotland’s Commissioner for Children and Young People, 7 February 2008
PDF - http://digbig.com/4wjpe
(CCYP/2008/1)
Kathleen Marshall,
"Laid before the Scottish Parliament by the Commissioner for Children and Young People in Scotland in pursuance of section 12 of the Commissioner for Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2003 on 07/02/08."

Addiction court hears first case / BBC, 28 January 2008
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7212423.stm
"The UK's first family drug and alcohol court is due to open in London with the aim of helping parents beat addictions so they can keep their children."

The Longer-term outcomes associated with families who had worked with Intensive Family Support Projects / CLG, 31 January 2008
PDF - http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/housing/pdf/intensivefamilyprojects "Evidence about the sustainability of interventions to help families at risk of losing their homes as a result of anti-social behaviour."
Summary
PDF - http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/housing/pdf/housingresearchsummary240

Leading article: The young victims of a system in need of reform / Independent, 30 January 2008
http://digbig.com/4whcw
"If Britain's overcrowded prisons are damaging the mental health and future employment prospects of male prisoners, this is doubly the case for females who fall foul of the criminal justice system. The 4,321 female prisoners in England and Wales are at greater risk of suicide than their male peers. Proportionately, more women prisoners suffer from mental illness too."

MORE SUPPORT FOR YOUNG RUNAWAYS / DCSF, 10 January 2008
http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/pns/DisplayPN.cgi?pn_id=2008_0005
Children’s Secretary Ed Balls and Minister for Young People Kevin Brennan outlined plans to help prevent an estimated 86,000* children and young people from running away each year. The Government wants all agencies to work together to prevent young people from reaching the crisis point where they run away and to keep those that do run away safe from harm. The Department for Children, Schools and Families asked The Children’s Society to look at current provision for young runaways and what more could be done to help them"
Stepping up: the future of runaways services / The Children's Society, August 2007
http://digbig.com/4wfhe

Ministers launch new ‘think family’ approach to help vulnerable parents and children / Cabinet Office, 10 January 2008
http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/social_exclusion_task_force/news/2008/080110_families.aspx
Think Family: Improving the life chances of families at risk
PDF - http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/upload/assets/www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/social_exclusion_task_force/think_families/think_family_life_chances_report.pdf
Families at Risk Review
http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/social_exclusion_task_force/families_at_risk.aspx
Think Family: a Literature Review of Whole Family Approaches / University of Birmingham, January 2008
PDF - http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/upload/assets/www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/social_exclusion_task_force/think_families/think_family_report.pdf
Findings of the joint DCSF/MOJ Children of Offenders Review / DCSF and Ministry of Justice, June 2007
PDF - http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/upload/assets/www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/social_exclusion_task_force/think_families/offenders_review_080110.pdf

Like any other child? Children and families in the asylum process / Barnado's, 7 January 2008
Executive summary
PDF - http://www.barnados.org.uk/like_any_other_child_asylum_report_08_summary.pdf
Full report may be purchased from Barnado's