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.
Readership
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.
In partnership with:
Editors
Michael Little The Social Research Unit, UK
Nick Axford The Social Research Unit, UK
Associate editors
Emma Crewe ChildHope UK
Celene Domitrovich Prevention Research Center, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Alina Morawska University of Queensland, Australia
Editorial board
Sue Bailey, Prestwich Hospital, Manchester, UK
Gary Barker, International Center for Research on Women, Washington DC, USA
Jane Barlow, Warwick Medical School, UK
Jacqueline Barnes, Birkbeck University of London, UK
Jeni Beecham, University of Kent, and LSE, London, UK
David Berridge, University of Bristol, UK
Barbara Burns, Duke University School of Medicine, USA
Ian Butler, University of Bath, UK
Lisa Christensen, Norfolk County Council, UK
John Coughlan, Hampshire County Council, UK
Deborah Daro, University of Chicago, USA
Joaquin de Paul, University del Pais Vasco, San Sebastian, Spain
Donald Forrester, University of Bedfordshire, UK
Tony Gallagher, Queen's University Belfast, UK
Ian Gough, University of Bath, UK
Nick Gould, University of Bath, UK
Carolyn Hamilton, The Children's Legal Centre, UK
Rupert Hughes, Centre for Social Policy, UK
Judy Hutchings, Bangor University, UK
Marian Jacobs, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Bill Jordan, University of Plymouth, UK
Owen Keenan, Middlequarter, Ireland
Jane Lewis, Research in Practice, UK
Judith Masson, University of Bristol, UK
Barbara Maughan, Institute of Psychiatry, UK
Di McNeish, Independent Policy and Research Consultant, UK
Rod Morgan, University of Bristol, UK
Joyce Moseley, Social Research Unit, UK
Terje Ogden, University of Oslo, Norway
Daniel Perkins, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Ann Phoenix, University of London, UK
Arthur Reynolds, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
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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