Archive of September, 2019

Cordis Pulse: September 2019

September 2019

A number of resources this month focus on the impact of experiencing multiple disadvantage. For instance: Alcohol Change UK and the effect of alcohol on intimate partner violence; the Health Foundation on allostatic load, the Lancet Public Health on adverse childhood experiences; Public Health Wales and the WHO on wellbeing; and NICE on coexisting mental illness and substance misuse. This emphasis on multiple need mirrors a lot of our current work, e.g. evaluations of Making Every Adult Matter and of Fulfilling Lives programmes; and research on prevalence of adverse childhood experiences. We agree that it is important to have an ongoing focus on multiple challenges: not only because of the particularly poor outcomes experienced by this group, but also because of the challenges for providers in ensuring services are delivered in a joined-up and impactful way. Finally, a number of these reports examine resilience as well as risk. We welcome this as it ensures a focus on people’s strengths and avoids deficit models of delivery.

Whole system approaches to domestic abuse

September 2019

This literature review looks at research, evaluations and guidance to identify recommendations for designing and delivering a whole system approach to domestic abuse. This includes principles for good practice, what works, what the main challenges are and how best to overcome them. In this review, we report and distil the key findings on whole system approaches to responding to domestic abuse. We focus particularly on whole system approaches as they apply to criminal justice agencies, but the findings may also be relevant to other sectors and agencies that are seeking to improve the whole system response. Research in this area is relatively established in the domain of health and social care, but lacking in the domain of criminal justice. We therefore also integrate guidance about multi-agency working from criminal justice sources into the review.

Looked after children stress test 2019

September 2019

This document uses publicly available data to examine recent trends in the numbers, rates and spend on looked after children in England.

The first section presents national trends from 2012 to 2018.

The second section examines trends across local authorities.

As part of this, it highlights those local authorities that we think, from the data, may be experiencing the most pressures in catering for looked after children.

We also highlight local authorities that may be sites of effective practice.