A new ReesCentre report looks at how extending Virtual School Heads’ duties to children with a social worker (CWSW) has made an impact (Oct 2022–Nov 2024).
🔗 Read more: bit.ly/3IY84ke
07.10.2025 11:28 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🎉Congratulations!
Rees student Janique Charles' poster “Young Voices: Understanding the Subjective Well-Being of Children in Caribbean Transnational Families” has won the Best Student PhD Poster at #EUSARF2025
Read more shorturl.at/2iRhs
03.10.2025 14:27 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Vania Pinto from the Rees Centre has shared her reflections from #EuSARF2025 in Zagreb.
Together with Prof Gillian Schofield, she led a symposium on Belonging & becoming: Rethinking children’s identity in foster care & adoption.
📖 Read the blog: shorturl.at/7gB62
29.09.2025 12:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New research. Fresh insights. Upcoming webinars.
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09.09.2025 11:14 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The use of Generative Artificial Intelligence is changing the way social workers produce case recordings & make use of information.
Listen to podcast by the Children's Information Project bit.ly/4gfJo3c
➡️What opportunities are there for the use of GenAI in social work?
05.09.2025 14:49 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Vacancy: Senior Research Fellow
📍 The role offers the chance to lead impactful projects and collaborate across disciplines in a supportive, mission-driven environment.
🖱️ Apply now using the QR code below or visit shorturl.at/8kPy3
23.07.2025 14:07 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Job Vacancy Alert - Senior Academic Research Leader in Children’s Social Care (CSC)
➡️ Scan the QR code below or apply here shorturl.at/GmnRE
23.07.2025 14:05 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🚨 We’re hiring at the Rees Centre!
Join us in leading world-class research to improve the lives of children and young people supported by children’s social care services.
Apply or share with your networks www.education.ox.ac.uk/rees-centre/...
21.07.2025 12:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
A few colleagues from our team recently enjoyed a change of scene with a working trip to Oxford’s libraries. They then wrapped up the day with a few drinks at the local pub and some ice cream!
15.07.2025 10:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🎉 We’re now on LinkedIn!
Follow the Rees Centre for the latest research, insights and updates on children’s social care, fostering, education and more.
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/rees...
11.07.2025 09:31 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Widening Participation Conference 2025 — HE Professional
The Widening Participation Conference 2025 will explore the latest insights and innovations for higher education providers in designing, delivering and evaluating interventions to drive enhanced equality of opportunity outcomes for students.
Prof Leon Feinstein will be presenting on Care experienced students: Pathways into and through HE.
This session will examine how different groups of young people with experience of children’s social care tend to differ in their progression to & through HE.
📆3 July, 9.30am
bit.ly/446Ly0y
30.06.2025 12:52 — 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
📈 Too often, children’s needs are lost in systems built to collect rather than serve. This new framework to the government supports ethical, effective information use across children’s services.
This project's funded by the @nuffieldfoundation.org
Find out more: bit.ly/3HYst82
26.06.2025 08:41 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
This small charity week #WalkforNNECL, a national challenge to walk, run, or cycle 364 miles to raise £5,000 for care experienced, estranged, and sanctuary-seeking young people accessing higher education.
From 23–30 June 2025. For details, visit www.nnecl.org/pages/small-...
16.06.2025 16:12 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by ReesCentre
Pathways into and through HE for young people with experience of children’s social care
🎥 Missed our lunchtime webinar on Pathways into and through higher education for young people with experience of children’s social care?
Catch up now on Youtube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOvQ...
13.06.2025 15:19 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
📢 Join us for our webinar next week on Pathways into and through higher education for young people with experience of children’s social care.
🗓️ 10 June, 12.30pm
💻 Department of Education & Online
🔗 Register here bit.ly/4kkdLWL
04.06.2025 10:04 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
👨👩👧👧The Children’s Information Project, led by the Rees Centre, is transforming how data from children & families informs support at local and national levels.
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30.05.2025 13:46 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
💛We’re grateful for all the support during #FosterCareFortnight
Your blogs, shares, quotes & reflections helped us amplify this year’s theme on the power of relationships.
#FCF25 #ReesSupportsFCF25
27.05.2025 10:25 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Have you looked at some of our past reports on Kinship and foster care?
➡️Read the reports here: bit.ly/3F2yUWM
#FCF25 #ReesSupportsFCF25
22.05.2025 10:36 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Victoria shares her experience teaching a care-experienced student who kept her distance, until a chance encounter changed their path. She says that the equations our students need to solve in life are often more difficult than we could ever imagine.
💛 Read her blog: bit.ly/43ELwg2
#FCF25
21.05.2025 12:28 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
💛 Growing up in care, our Rees Centre Research Officer learned to rely only on herself after early experiences of neglect. Over time, trusted relationships helped her feel supported into adulthood.
🔗 Read her blog: bit.ly/4mkcMrD
#FCF25 #ReesSupportsFCF25
20.05.2025 10:04 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
New blog from Vania: A heartfelt reflection on children in foster care and the essential support foster carers provide.
Read her blog here ⬇️
www.education.ox.ac.uk/rees-centre/...
Explore our other blogs and reports ⬇️
www.education.ox.ac.uk/rees-centre/...
#FCF25 #ReesSupportsFCF25
16.05.2025 15:10 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
A graphic to promote the webinar recording of the free CELCIS Emerging Insights webinar entitled 'Leading for change', which took place in March 2025 and is available on the CELCIS website.
The final webinar in a series exploring themes from the Children's Services Reform Research, which looks at what the findings tell us about leadership in supporting transformational change in services for children, young people and their families and carers, is available now: buff.ly/DZO5H5m
16.05.2025 11:26 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
We celebrated #FosterCareFortnight at our recent Centre Day with a splash of orange! 🧡A wonderful show of support for this year's theme on the Power Of Relationships.
Find out more about our work here: www.education.ox.ac.uk/rees-centre/...
#FCF25 #ReesSupportsFCF25
15.05.2025 09:56 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🧡 Rees Centre’s Dr Priya Tah highlights how strong, secure bonds between children and caregivers shape their wellbeing.
Explore her report: Raised by Relatives – Experiences of Black & Asian kinship carers ➡️ www.education.ox.ac.uk/rees-centre/...
#FosterCareFortnight #FCT25
13.05.2025 10:04 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
💛 Foster Care Fortnight is here (12–25 May)!
📝 We’re marking The Power of Relationships by sharing blogs, key reports & powerful quotes on fostering. Follow along as we celebrate the connections that change lives. #FCF25
Read more ➡️ www.education.ox.ac.uk/rees-centre/...
12.05.2025 12:21 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Childhood maltreatment is the world’s costliest and least discussed public health problem. It is perhaps the principal preventable cause of mental illness, addiction, criminality and violence.
🧑💻Join our webinar on Ending Child Maltreatment.
📆Tues 6 May, 2pm (on Teams)
🖱️Register now bit.ly/42QSbSO
28.04.2025 09:09 — 👍 1 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Researcher Dr Priya Tah shares her reflections on a recent workshop where kinship carers and sector representatives came together to turn the Raised by Relatives report recommendations into practical actions.
➡️ Read her blog on the workshop bit.ly/4cOnmCF
28.04.2025 08:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
👏🏽 Congratulations @lucygbrobinson.bsky.social on winning the 2025 BERA Doctoral Thesis Award for her dissertation: How does military life shape service children’s identity and school experiences?🏆
14.04.2025 11:44 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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