This review is intended to provide Barnardo’s with an overview of what ‘direct work’ with young people entails in the context of CSE.

This Dossier aims to show the extent of the problem of children being taken into care in the UK and the trauma of family separation, the supporting evidence self-help groups of mothers are beginning to get from professionals, and to make proposals for action.

This is the first in a series of briefings to be published alongside a programme of research and campaign work to end the criminalisation of children living in residential care. The project builds on from research published in March 2016, which found that children living in children’s homes in the UK were being criminalised at much higher rates than other children, including those in other types of care.

This guide aims to provide social workers with a clear framework for undertaking preliminary assessments of family and friends.

The aims of the study were to examine the experiences and outcomes of young adults, aged 16-26, who had lived, or continued to live, in kinship care in the UK.

This briefing paper, which is the third in a series, provides a brief overview of the characteristics of the children growing up with relatives in Scotland.

This briefing paper, which is the second in a series, provides a brief overview of the characteristics of the children growing up with relatives in Wales.

This collection of poetry and writing throws the spotlight on living 'in care' - a subject rarely explored in literature and yet experienced by more than 60,000 children in the UK every year.

Undertaking a connected person / family and friends assessment is designed to help social workers to manage and complete a comprehensive and evidence-based assessment of connected people / family and friends who wish to foster or be special guardians to a known child or children.

This edited collection explores the background and implementation of the Nordic Barnahus (or 'Children's House') model – recognised as one of the most important reforms related to children who are the victims of crime in the Nordic region.