Have researchers at the University of Otago in New Zealand hammered the last nail in the coffin of the idea that single parenting is ever at the root of children’s problems?

Alexander Pope was musing about the temperament of the wise critic when he famously wrote in 1711 that “To err is Human; to Forgive, Divine”, but social psychologists are finding that a forgiving nature has transformative powers even in the modern home.

Millions being spent on UK children and families initiatives, a new government press release almost every day – but where’s the investment in research and where’s the evaluation evidence to show that any of it is working?