Journal of Children's Services: Volume 11 Issue 1

Implementing yoga within the school curriculum: a scientific rationale for improving social-emotional learning and positive student outcomes

Bethany Butzer, Denise Bury, Shirley Telles, Sat Bir S. Khalsa

The purpose of this paper is to review and synthesise research evidence and propose a theoretical model suggesting that school-based yoga programs may be an effective way to…

Making the most of children centre management data: a researcher-practitioner partnership approach

Jane Tunstill, James BLewett

The purpose of this paper is to describe a collaboration between independent researchers and an English local authority to develop a framework for understanding and measuring…

A randomised controlled trial comparing the effects of directive and non-directive parenting programmes as a universal prevention programme

Stanley Chan, Cynthia Leung, Matthew Sanders

The purpose of this paper is to compare the effectiveness of directive programmes led by professionals where parents were taught specific parenting knowledge and strategies…

Incredible Years parenting programme: cost-effectiveness and implementation

Rhiannon Tudor Edwards, Carys Jones, Vashti Berry, Joanna Charles, Pat Linck, Tracey Bywater, Judy Hutchings

There is growing interest in the economic evaluation of public health prevention initiatives and increasing government awareness of the societal costs of conduct disorder in early…

Boys’ bands in children’s homes: a fragment of history

Roy Parker

The purposes of this paper are threefold. First, to draw attention to an overlooked feature of children’s institutions in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; namely, the…

Innovation in Social Welfare and Human Services

Louise Morpeth

The Science of Realist Evaluation: A Realist Manifesto

Donald Forrester

Editorial

Georgina Warner, Michael Little