Rescheduled from: 1st December 2020

Featuring: Dustin Hutchinson (Senior Research and Policy Analyst, National Children's Bureau)

Living Assessments is a major five-year Wellcome Trust funded social care research project in collaboration between the children’s charity the National Children’s Bureau (NCB), University of Cambridge, the University of Kent and All Party Parliamentary Group for Children. The project looks at the decision-making process for providing social care support to children and families, the impact of offering particular support or not offering that support, and the lived experiences of assessments.

This talk will examine the creative ways groups of ‘Experts-by-Experience’ compromising of disabled children, care leavers and parents whose families have experienced of children’s social care, have been key to the research and the policy and parliamentary influencing, drawing on their lived experiences. The talk will examine the trans-institutional collaboration and how this has worked to generate new knowledge, new approaches to thinking and novel approaches to affecting high level change.

Introduced by Professor Murray Smith (Professor of Film, University of Kent, Deputy Divisional Dir of Research & Innovation ArtsHums: Interdisciplinarity) and chaired by Professor Julie Anderson (Professor of Modern History, University of Kent)