This article introduces an innovative mentalization-based treatment (MBT) parenting intervention for families where children are at risk of maltreatment.

This guidance from the UK's Department for Education presents a framework to help social care and criminal justice agencies keep looked-after children out of the criminal justice system.

This study is a scoping review to explore what research evidence exists about what works in safely reducing the number of children and young people in care.

Using the findings from a qualitative study, this paper explores social workers’ experiences of intervening in affluent families in the UK when there are child protection concerns.

Using the data from a a nationwide evaluation of accessibility of employment and education in Latvia, the authors of this paper argue that due to the fragmented implementation of deinstitutionalisation (DI) and lack of a child centred approach throughout the education sector, despite educators firmly believing they are acting in the best interests of children, current practices of care contribute to the creation of ‘inclusive exclusion’

Despite a growing interest in music therapy within child welfare practice, music therapy practices within these contexts are still under-researched in Norway. The present study takes a collaborative community music therapy practice as its point of departure.

In this blog post from the Huffington Post, Rachel Springford writes about her experience in care and the difficulties care leavers face in transitioning to adulthood and accessing opportunities such as studying at university.

The UK government has announced a new care leaver covenant, designed to support care leavers in the transition to independent adulthood, according to this article from the Guardian.

This article re‐examines data from an evaluation of a volunteering project for care leavers in the UK.

This chapter examines Global North and South similarities in children and young people’s reactions to school-led child protection programmes.