Parental Advocacy in England and Wales: Considering the perceived impact of parental advocacy on child protection practice

埃文的项目很重要，因为威尔士正寻求在多个地方当局推行家长倡导项目。父母倡导作为减少儿童进入托儿所需要的一种手段的有效性的国际证据是确凿的，但关于如何调整这种服务以满足威尔士公民和社区的需求的证据有限。埃文的项目将试图了解这些服务是如何建立的，正在进行哪些调整，并探索作为家长倡导者对倡导者本身的影响(目前还没有得到充分的探索)。埃文斯将使用多种方法，包括采访和对实践的观察，以了解倡导者的所作所为以及它如何影响发生的事情。埃文斯在采访中谈到了其中涉及的伦理复杂性，例如家庭环境的敏感性。埃文斯女士在这一领域拥有丰富的工作经验，并在卡迪夫大学的道德审批流程方面拥有丰富的经验，因为她在CASCADE的工作。

Ms Evan's project is important, as Wales seeks to roll-out parental advocacy projects across a number of local authorities. The international evidence for the effectiveness of parental advocacy as a means to reduce the need for children to enter care is well established, but there is only limited evidence about how such services can be adapted to meet the needs of Welsh citizens and communities. Ms Evan's project would seek to understand how these services are being established, what adaptations are being made, and to explore the impact of being a parental advocate on the advocates themselves (something that is under-explored currently). Ms Evans would use a mixture of methods, including interviews and observations of practice, to understand what advocates do and how it influences what happens. Ms Evans talked in her interview about the ethical complexities involved, for example about the sensitivity of family circumstances. Ms Evans has experience working in this field, and of the ethical approval process at Cardiff University for her work with CASCADE.