One Plus One e-bulletin, No 3, March 2007
     
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This free monthly bulletin will keep you up-to-date with our projects and provides a listing of the most recent research and policy news concerning families and relationships.

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Contents:
News from One Plus One
Research and policy news
About One Plus One
 
   
     
  News from One Plus One  
     
  The e-bulletin will now include a section for Journal Articles. Each month we will select relevant journal articles from the field to help keep you up-to-date with all the latest research. To view these articles click here  
     
  March saw the mailout of posters advertising our webistes The Parent Connection and Married or Not to all Citizens Advice Bureaus in England and Wales.  
     
  One Plus One has been carrying out training for Home-Start which supports families throughout the UK. This month Home-Start staff from Worcester and London were given training in One Plus One's Brief Encounters training package.  
     
  One Plus One’s first evaluation workshop was held in March. Professor Ros Corney led the day, with information about good practice for attendees who had a range of evaluation experience. All participants indicated that the day had been useful, and would recommend it to others. If you are interested in attending future workshops please email fg@oneplusone.org.uk  
     
  Director of One Plus One, Penny Mansfield, along with our Head of Practice Development and Training, Clare Negreira, spoke at the Alone in London conference about How Helping Works: Towards a shared model of process, a joint publication from One Plus One, Parentline Plus and The Centre for Parent and Child Support. To view a pdf copy of the publication visit the One Plus One website.  
     
  Penny also spoke at the Demos conference Re-Valuing Care on the importance of marriage and partnership as informal support. Age Concern, Carers UK, Demos Families and Care Programme and Fathers Direct also spoke at the conference.  
     
 

One Plus One held one of three workshops commissioned by Action for Prisoners Families for staff working in prison visitor centres. Brief Encounters training was tailored specifically for visitor centre staff who are frequently turned to about relationship difficulties. The March workshop was held in Leeds and we have held a similar session in London and will be holding another in Birmingham.

 
     
   
     
  Research and policy news  
     
  We regularly monitor and select information from Government departments, research centres, publishers, and relationship and family organisations. Below you will find a listing of news from the last month. Each headline provides a link to the original news release. A regularly updated news board can be found in our National Information Centre on Relationships.  
     
  Policy and Practice  
 
Every Child Matters: Review of children and young people's policy
Improving transparency and privacy in family courts from the Department of Constitutional Affairs
The Department of Constitutional Affairs urges families to consider welfare of children before going to the family courts
The Budget 2007
Families at Risk Review: New data shows excluded families must get personalised support programmes
The Department for Education and Skills: Every Parent Matters
The Department for Education and Skills: Early Years Foundation Stage
 
 
The Department for Education and Skills: Supporting Parents of Teenagers
David Freud's review of welfare
Domestic Violence month
Improving services for children in care, Quality Improvement Project
Relate Institute inaugural lecture by Alan Johnson, Secretary of State for Education and Skills
Legal Services Commission: Improved legal aid for victims of domestic violence
 
     
  Research and Statistics  
 
The work-rich/work-poor society research from the Institute for Social and Economic Research
Netmums and Equal Opportunities Commission survey of pregnancy and work
Marriage, divorce (2004) and adoption (2005) statistics from National Statistics
Institute of Education survey shows stressed parents can make for unhappy children
Parentline Plus Survey: Pressure to be supermum is spoiling parethood
The Equal Opportunities Commission publishes Moving on Up: Ethnic Minority Women at Work
The Centre for Research on Families and Relationships and Childline Scotland: Children and Young People's Concerns about Sexual Health and Wellbeing
The Equal Opportunities Commission: State of the Modern Family
Study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council has come up with new tests for pre-schoolers to help recognise potential problems earlier
Antenatal and Postnatal Mental Health: Clinical Management and Service Guidance from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
Immpact global research initiative delivering safer motherhood
 
     
  Journal Articles  
 

The Living Together Campaign - the Impact on Cohabitants by Anne Barlow, Carole Burgoyne & Janet Smithson, Family Law, Volume 37, February 2007 pp165-198. To visit the Family Law website click here
The Well-Being of Children Born to Teen Mothers by Judith A. Levine, Clifton R. Emery & Harold Pollack, Journal of Marriage and Family, Volume 69, February 2007 pp105-122. To read the article click here
Maternal Cohabitation and Child Well-Being Among Kindergarten Children by Catherine A. Surra, Tyfany M.J. Boettcher-Burke, Nathan R. Cottle, Adam R. West & Christine R. Gray, Journal of Marriage and Family, Volume 69, February 2007 pp222-236. To read the article click here
 
 

Programmes for parents of infants and toddlers: recent evidence from randomised trials by David L. Olds, Lois Sadler & Harriet Kitzman, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Volume 48, Issue 3-4 pp355-391. To read the abstract click here
Antenatal maternal stress and long-term effects on child neurodevelopment: how and why? by Nicole M. Talge, Charles Neal, Vivette Glover and the Early Stress, Translational Research and Prevention Science Network: Fetal and Neonatal Expereince on Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Volume 48, Issue 3-4, 2007 pp355-391. To read the abstract click here
Attachment and the Experience and Expression of Emotions in Romantic Relationships: A Developmental Perspective by Jeffry A. Simpson, W. Andrew Collins, SiSi Tran & Katherine C. Haydon, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Volume 92, Number 2, 2007 pp355-367. To view the article click here
 
     
   
     
  About One Plus One  
     
  One Plus One is a team of researchers, practitioners and information specialists whose aim is to enhance understanding of how family relationships contribute to the well being of adults and children through three key activities:  
 
inquiring - monitoring and evaluating knowledge about relationships and effective support in order to develop key messages for policy and practice;
informing - creating imaginative formats for key messages tailored to different audiences, and raising awareness of the impact of couple relationships on the well being of individuals, families and communities;
innovating - developing innovative ways of getting specialist knowledge and skills about adult family relationships and early intervention to everyone working in the frontline with families, thereby adding value to existing practice.