The article aims to uncover what hinders social workers to carry out effective work in providing social services for families whose children are in temporary custody.

This article explores whether the number of visits by birth parents influence perceptions of attachment, children’s competence and mental health, and stress levels in foster parents.

This study evaluates the ‘Nurturing Attachment’ program in the UK, a Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy intervention for adoptive families.

In this piece, Robert Halfon, the Chair of the UK Parliament's Education Select Committee, writes that England's foster care system is failing vulnerable children.

This article, based on a unique mixed‐methods study of social work interventions in the UK and the influence of poverty, highlights a narrative from practitioners that argues that, as many poor families do not harm their children, it is stigmatizing to discuss a link between poverty and child abuse and neglect.

This chapter from 'New Directions in Children’s Welfare' applies the theorising emerging from mobilities discourses and applies them to children’s services. 

This chapter from 'New Directions in Children’s Welfare' aims to discover the delicate dynamics of trust within the specific professional and service user relations in work with children and young people who are either Looked After or at risk of significant harm.

The introductory chapter of 'New Directions in Children’s Welfare' starts with a reflection from the author’s personal experience of social work practice and working with a family where the children are neglected and on the child protection register as a result.

This chapter from 'New Directions in Children’s Welfare' examines competing understandings of child welfare.

Within this chapter (from the book 'New Directions in Children’s Welfare,') three child abuse inquiry and Serious Case Review reports are explored to understand the contemporary landscape of Children’s Services and the ongoing challenges involved in protecting children and young people from harm.