Journal of Children's Services: Volume 4 Issue 3

Research informing policy and practice

Subjects:

Table of contents

Piloting a classroom‐based intervention in after‐school programmes: a case study in science migration

Kathryn Hynes, Emilie Smith, Daniel Perkins

Policy‐makers are looking to after‐school programmes to improve family and child wellbeing and are searching for evidence‐based ways to improve the quality of after‐school…

Access to post‐adoption services when the child has substantial problems

Elizabeth Monck, Alan Rushton

The aim of the study described here was to assess the types of additional specialist service available to adoptive parents participating in a randomised controlled trial (RCT) of…

Looked‐after children placed in externally purchased residential care

Roger Bullock

In the desire to improve outcomes for children in care, the issue of those individuals placed by local authorities in residential establishments run by external agencies has…

Leading children's services: some contemporary issues and challenges

Nick Frost

This article explores some of the contemporary challenges facing leaders of children's services. Using the theoretical framework of the ‘incomplete leader’ developed by Ancona and…

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ISSN:

1746-6660

Online date, start – end:

2006

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • prof Emily Munro