Family VOICE: Longitudinal Child Welfare Outcomes from Family Group Conferences

Questionnaire data from the Family Views and Context Study, part of the Family VOICE evaluation of family group conferences (FGCs) in UK child welfare services. The dataset was collected by author Yixi Liao and contains responses from family members aged 8+ at three time points: before the conference, a few weeks after, and six months later. It was last updated on 2026-06-01.

Use Cases

• Analyze change over time in family empowerment and adult well-being based on the three-wave longitudinal design.
• Investigate contextual influences on outcomes like perceived child safety and child psychosocial health based on variation in family context and local authority.
• Study mechanisms associated with FGC processes based on data capturing implementation factors and FGC characteristics.

Strengths

• Data collected at three distinct time points (baseline, post-FGC, six-month follow-up), enabling longitudinal analysis.
• Questionnaires were co-designed with families and practitioners, suggesting participatory design.
• Ethical approval was granted by the UK Health Research Authority’s Social Care Ethics Committee (IRAS 325725).
• Data is supplemented by semi-structured interviews with a purposive sub-sample of participants aged 16+.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is small in scale at 549.4 KB, indicating limited scope.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Questionnaires administered to family members participating in family group conferences, supplemented by interviews.

Time Range

Data collected at baseline, a few weeks post-conference, and six months post-conference.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-01 10:26:41; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom child welfare services, with variation across different local authorities.