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Journal of Children’s Services

Research informing policy and practice

Editors: Michael Little and Nick Axford
Frequency: Quarterly
Print ISSN: 1746-6660
Online ISSN: 2042-8677

Aims and scope
Journal of Children’s Services encourages the development of research-based, outcome-focused services to better safeguard and promote the well-being of vulnerable children and their families.

It seeks to improve understanding of the way that child development and applied social research can contribute to the evidence base, and increase the integration of children’s services (which includes activities organised by health services, education, social care, the police, youth justice and voluntary/independent agencies). The Journal is international in scope.

High standards of evidence are encouraged and all articles are peer-reviewed. Topics include:
•child development research and its implications for forward-
looking services
•methodological issues and developments, and their application to practice
•evaluation of innovative services, using quantitative and qualitative methods
•applied research relevant to common tasks in children’s services, such as assessment, information-sharing, multi agency working and prevention
•analysis of the social, economic, cultural and political content for child well-being and children’s services
•critical discussion of the conceptual frameworks that inform service provision
•promotion of initiatives to forge stronger links between research, policy and practice
•commentary on policy, including interviews with key international, national and local policy-makers in the field.

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Journal of Children’s Services is vital for everyone involved in children’s services.
It is a hugely valuable source of information and intelligence for academics, universities and colleges, practitioners, policy-makers, managers, children’s charities, campaigning and advocacy organisations, groups representing the views of children, trainers, disseminators of research, social workers, education services, commissioners, local authorities, NHS and primary care trusts, carers and students.

Editors
Michael Little The Social Research Unit, UK
Nick Axford The Social Research Unit, UK

Associate editors
Celene Domitrovich Prevention Research Center, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Alina Morawska University of Queensland, Australia
Emma Crewe ChildHope UK

Editorial board (UK based)
Sue Bailey Prestwich Hospital, Manchester
Jane Barlow Warwick Medical School
Jacqueline Barnes Birkbeck University of London
Jeni Beecham University of Kent, and LSE, London
David Berridge University of Bristol
Ian Butler University of Bath
Lisa Christensen Norfolk County Council
John Coughlan Hampshire County Council
Donald Forrester University of Bedfordshire
Tony Gallagher Queen’s University Belfast
Ian Gough University of Bath
Nick Gould University of Bath
Carolyn Hamilton The Children’s Legal Centre
Rupert Hughes Centre for Social Policy
Judy Hutchings Bangor University
Bill Jordan University of Plymouth
Jane Lewis Research in Practice
Judith Masson University of Bristol
Barbara Maughan Institute of Psychiatry
Di McNeish Independent Policy and Research Consultant
Rod Morgan University of Bristol
Joyce Moseley Catch22
Ann Phoenix University of London

International editorial board
Gary Barker International Center for Research on Women, Washington DC, US
Barbara Burns Duke University School of Medicine, US
Deborah Daro University of Chicago, US
Marian Jacobs University of Cape Town, South Africa
Owen Keenan Middlequarter, Ireland
Terje Ogden University of Oslo, Norway
Joaquin de Paul University del Pais Vasco, San Sebastian, Spain
Daniel Perkins Pennsylvania State University, US
Arthur Reynolds University of Wisconsin, Madison, US
Dorothy Scott University of South Australia, Australia
Anne Smith University of Otago, New Zealand
Turid Vogt Grinde NOVA – Norwegian Social Research, Norway
Richard Volpe University of Toronto, Canada

Abstracting and indexing
Journal of Children’s Services is abstracted/indexed in:
British Nursing Index; Educational Research Abstracts; Illustrata; Scopus; Social Care Online; SocINDEX and ZETOC.

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