Journal of Children's Services: Volume 9 Issue 1

The Quality of Life Scale for Children (QoL-C)

Hannah L. Thompson, Marie-Claire Reville, Anna Price, Laura Reynolds, Lauren Rodgers, Tamsin Ford

There is a lack of valid and reliable generic measures of Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) for children under eight. The purpose of this paper is to assess the psychometric…

A cluster randomised controlled trial of “Bookstart+”: a book gifting programme

Liam O’Hare, Paul Connolly

– The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the effectiveness of a free book gifting programme, called “Bookstart+”, in improving family reading outcomes.

Joined-up thinking, joined-up services, exploring coalface challenges for making services work for families with complex needs

Judy Hutchings, Margiad Elen Williams

– This paper aims to describe coal-face challenges to making services in the UK work to ensure the mental and physical health, safety and wellbeing of children.

Aiming higher: more than “on the job” training for residential child care workers

Jan Nordoff, Iolo Madoc-Jones

Children who enter the care system in England and Wales are among some of the most vulnerable children in society, often presenting with high levels of need. Ensuring that the…

Routine outcome monitoring of evidence-based parenting programmes: indications of effectiveness in a community context

Alison Hurst, Anna Price, Rebecca Walesby, Moira Doolan, Wendy Lanham, Tamsin Ford

Despite an increasing policy focus, routine outcome monitoring (ROM) is not common practice in UK children's services. This paper aims to examine whether it is feasible and valid…

2013 Awards for Excellence

Giving child well-being data a work-out

Nick Axford and Michael Little