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Findings Pre-conference: Demographics, Preparation and Referral and Gatekeeping

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This chapter explores the findings from my research interview data and is presented from four sources: young people, family members, advocates and a Family Group Conference (FGC) coordinator, all of whom had experienced or were about to experience an FGC. A thematic analysis, along with an adapted critical discourse analysis tool, was applied to the interview transcripts, and the emergent key themes are explored here.

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Fox, D. (2018). Findings Pre-conference: Demographics, Preparation and Referral and Gatekeeping. In: Family Group Conferencing with Children and Young People. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71492-9_8

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