"Fifteen years after leaving the care system, almost everyone I knew then was reluctant to talk. Why had so many of them struggled or fallen off the map?" writes Daniel Lavelle in the Guardian.

The ICSM will be responsible for the management and development of the GTAS Technical Team; the quality assurance of Lumos technical support and ensuring such support is properly documented; the delivery of training and technical support; and in coordination with other colleagues, supporting the overall development of the GTAS Unit.

The recommended interventions in this book is the result of a systematic review of literature conducted through a combination of hand and electronic database searches to select, appraise, extract, synthesis and analyse primary articles to find interventions that work.

This study compared the histories, circumstances and pathways of children receiving quasi-compulsory home-based support (under a child protection plan) to those for children ever placed in out of home care.

This chapter from Migration between Africa and Europe investigates family life in the context of international migration between Ghana and Europe. The chapter finds that transnational family forms, in which one or more members of the nuclear family are living abroad while the other members remain in the home or another country, are common.

The current service-data study explored the emotional and behavioural symptom trajectories of 207 young people under the long-term care of a local authority in the South West of England, over their first five years in the care system.

The current service-data study explored the emotional and behavioural symptom trajectories of 207 young people under the long-term care of a local authority in the South West of England, over their first five years in the care system.

This paper examines the My Life, My Future programme that was set up to boost the emotional wellbeing and resilience of looked-after young people.

This review of the 91 English children's services departments with specific policies on bruising in premobile children found a major disjuncture between research evidence and its interpretation in guidance.

This paper presents results from a cross-sectional survey and reports findings from a sample of 162 Northern Irish social workers.