6 articles in this issue
Elizabeth Harlow
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Carolus van Nijnatten
The Dutch Child Protection Board is responsible for reviewing the development of children at risk and for advising on whether safeguarding intervention is necessary. In this paper, an analysis is presented of the interaction between a social worker of the... see more
Alys Young,Ros Hunt,Hugh McLaughlin
This article concerns the participation of service user groups in the translation of social work standards into social work practices. The context is a development and research project about quality standards in adult social services with Deaf and hard of... see more
David Thorpe,Suzanne Regan,Claire Mason,Corinne May-Chahal
The past 11 years (1995-2006) have seen several major government initiatives in child welfare programmes culminating in the Children Act 2004 which places a duty on Children’s Services and their relevant partners to ‘cooperate to improve the well-being’ o... see more
Andy Bilson,Galina Markova
The use of institutional care in countries in transition to capitalist economies in Eastern Europe and Central Asia continues to grow. This paper shows how common understandings of reasons for entry to care that blame parents lead to policies that are una... see more