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Parents and Professionals

Parents and Professionals

First Thursday every month There isn’t enough parent advocacy! We hold monthly meetings to promote advocacy where parents and allies present what is happening in their area. Join us to promote parent advocacy in children’s social care, health or education ...
Law Commission Review

Law Commission Review

Children's Social Care Legislation for Disabled Children Representatives of PFAN and allied organisations met with representatives of the Law Commission Review. We presented our evidence below and following discussion at this meeting provided a detailed addendum that outlines changes needed ...
Social Sciences Special Issue

Social Sciences Special Issue

Parental Participation in Child Protection Guest Editors Prof. Andy Bilson, Taliah Drayak, Dr Simon Haworth, Nicola Lancaster, Tammy Mayes E-Mail Special Issue Information Dear Colleagues, The overarching aim of child protection and child welfare systems should be to support parents ...

Past Events

Webinars and Gatherings including videos

Parent Advocacy: From research to doing

Parent Advocacy: From research to doing

Date and time Fri, 29 Nov 2024 16:00 - 18:00 GMT https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/parent-advocacy-from-research-to-doing-tickets-1083886265999 On the 29th November at 4pm til 6pm ...

Andy Bilson’s presentation to Independent Review

This was Andy's presentation to the Independent Review of Children's Social Care. He presents his research on the trends in ...
Developing Parent Advocacy for Children's Services in Northern Ireland

Developing Parent Advocacy for Children’s Services in Northern Ireland

See the video of the webinar and learn how to develop parent advocacy for children's services ...
Parental Advocacy and Representation: Learning from experience

Parental Advocacy and Representation: Learning from experience

Video of webinar held May 3rd 2023 PFAN has responded to the government strategy, Stable Homes, Built on Love, expressing ...
Improving policy and practice on bruising in premobile infants

Improving policy and practice on bruising in premobile infants

Mon, 23 January 2023, 16:00 – 17:30 GMT Get tickets from Eventbrite £10 waged £0 unwaged In September 2022 the ...
Webinar: Poverty is not neglect

Webinar: Poverty is not neglect

A Social Work Challenge Please join us for this webinar on Monday 24 October from 4 to 6 pm. Co-sponsored ...
Supporting fathers

Supporting fathers

Supporting fathers involved in child protection services. Tue, 16 August 2022 Webinar is about how we can support fathers who ...

The Way Forward

Webinar Mon, March 14, 2022 The Way Forward's key recommendations were presented About this event The Parents, Families and Allies ...

Wales Webinar

Andy's presentation at the conference On November 16th 2020 PFAN hosted a webinar in Wales as part of the The ...

Conferences

Coming together to promote change

Coming together to promote change

Coming together to promote change:developing parent advocacy in the UK By Yuval Saar-Heiman, Marie skłodowska Curie fellow, Royal Holloway University ...
Open Nest Conference

Open Nest Conference

Preservation Versus Severance: Promoting Human Rights In Adoption Policy At the conference mothers discussed their experiences of having children placed ...
Birmingham 2020

Birmingham 2020

Reforming the child protection system:Parents and their Allies Together Hope Newton from Rise On 25 February 2020, an exciting event ...