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Family centres: protection and promotion at the heart of the Children Act 1989

Chris Warren‐Adamson (University of Brighton, UK)
Anita Lightburn (Fordham Graduate School of Social Service, US)

Journal of Children's Services

ISSN: 1746-6660

Article publication date: 27 September 2010

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Abstract

This article reflects on the significance of family centres in the UK as a mirror of new possibilities for child welfare in the years following the Children Act 1989. The Act empowered local authorities in England and Wales to provide family centres as part of ‘family support practice’. The article reveals a rich vein of family‐centred, centre‐based activity internationally and shows practice combining intervention from the sophisticated to the very informal. The authors focus on so‐called ‘integrated centres’ as complex systems of care with wide implications for practice and outcome evaluation in an ‘evidence‐based’ context.

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Warren‐Adamson, C. and Lightburn, A. (2010), "Family centres: protection and promotion at the heart of the Children Act 1989", Journal of Children's Services, Vol. 5 No. 3, pp. 25-36. https://doi.org/10.5042/jcs.2010.0548

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