ARTICLES

• 'From pipedream to pipeline' - Ciaran King, Europe Litigation Officer AIRE Center, Consultant at Methoria and Catriona Jarvis, Director and Chair of Trustees of Methoria and Co-Covener of its First Rights Programme
• 'The Lost Dads Project: Fathers and Family Breakdown' - Professor Ben Hine, University of West London

 

EDITORIAL

• '......lives will be at risk if we do not see action'

 

ARTICLES

Volume 34 (3)

• 'Children must stay the focus when parental contact breaks down' - Professor Jo Delahunty KC
• 'Communiation challenges in Family Court: Understanding the unique needs of autistic children' - Professor Olga Bogdashina
• 'An exploration of psychological assessments and therapies: one Local authority's perspective' Richard Devine and Leigh Zywek

 

EDITORIAL

• 'Who will guard the guardians of Social Work England?'

 

Volume 34 (2)

• 'A New Social Contract with Vulnerable Children and Families' - Anne Longfield CBE
• 'Helping Families Living in Poor Housing Conditions' - Natalie Wilkins
• 'Exploring Domestice Abuse in the LGBTQ+ Community: A Critical Analysis' Sandra van Empel
• Open Letter from Nagalro to the Government regarding Deprivation of Liberty Orders

 

EDITORIAL

• 'Poverty is killing children'

 

Volume 34 (1)

• 'Ending the Gillick Enigma: A Call for a Statutory Test to Determine a Child's Capacity to Decide' - Camilla Parker
• 'Kinship Carers and Universal Credit:  Steering Around the New Bear Traps' - Lynne Thompson

 

EDITORIAL

• 'Just a statistic'

 

Volume 33 (4)

• Arbitration in Children's Cases:  A Sensible Alternative to Delay in Private Law?' - Elizabeth Isaacs
• 'The Dirty Dozen in Child Protection' - Lynn Davis
• 'Children and the Illegal Migration Act 2023' - Rodney Noon

 

Volume 33 (3)

• 'Evidence-informed intervention for perpetrators of domestic abuse: Lessons from the Family Drug and Alcohol Courts' - Carolyn Lipp, Sheena Webb and Hannah Jeffrey
• What's in a Word?  The transformational power of  domestic abuse informed documention' - David Mandel and Anna Mitchell
• 'Changes afoot?  An outline of the Law Commission's proposals for the reform of surrogacy law' - Victoria Flowers

 

Volume 33 (2)

• 'Understanding the real cost of deepening poverty for children - can we remain hopeful and helpful?' - Sir James Munby
• 'Say Cheese!  How slices of emmenthal could help mnage risk in child protection' - Lynn Davis

• 'Lake Chad Basin:  Children and Youths in crisis' - Bolanle Kayode

• 'What every ISW must know about ransomeware and cyber-security for children' - Rodney Noon

Volume 33 (1)

• 'Understanding the True Picture of Child Sexual Abuse in England and Wales' - Kairika Karsna
• 'Children's Rights in The British Overseas Territories from St Helena to the Turks and Caicos' - Samantha Phippard

 

Volume 32 (4)

• 'Beyond the Timescales:  Do we really have time to address parental trauma within the Family Court?' - Dr Sheena Webb
• 'Seeing and Hearing Children in the shadow of Family Imprisonment' - Dr Fiona Donson
• 'Residential Children's Homes in England and Wales: A Snapshot'

 

Volume 32 (3)

• 'Protecting More Children Better: Improving practice with black, asian and minority ethnic children who have experienced child sexual abuse' - Jabeer Butt OBE, Dr Sophie Laws and Melanie Phillips
• 'De-Colonising Social Work Practice' - Professor Kish Bhatti-Sinclair

 

Volume 32 (2)

• 'Improving Children's Experiences of Private Law Proceedings - Alice Roe
• 'A Guide for Children's Guardians dealing with press applications in Children's Cases' - Rodney Noon

Volume 32 (1)

• The Digital World of Adolescent Sexuality: 'Pornography' and 'Youth Digital Intimacies' - Dr Emily Setty
• Nagalro's Black Children's Lives Matter Response to the 'Adoption Strategy - Achieving Excellence Everywhere'  - Julia Hughes and Yvonne Wilson
• A Personal Walk around Adoption and Social Work before the Adoption Act 1976 

 

Volume 31 (4)

• 'The Wales Adoption Cohort Study' - Julie Doughty
• 'How 'Empowered' are they really?  Understanding and responding to children who are 'over-empowered' within Family Breakdown'  - Dr David Pitcher, Dr Nigel Blagg, Dr Mattie Idema-Sharman, Mary Holba, Joyne Stallard 
• 'Alienation, Abduction and The Domestic Abuse Act 2021' - The Baroness Meyer CBE

 

Volume 31 (3)

• 'Nurturing Relationships between Looked-After Brothers and Sisters' - Shelagh Beckett
• 'Mothers of Children Removed under a Care Order:  Outcomes and Experiences'  - Dr Vanessa Richardson and Professor Alison Brammer
• 'Family Drug and Alcohol Courts: A Transformative Approach to Care Proceedings' - Phillippa Heath-Philpotts
• 'Unlocking Disability Living Allowance for Foster Children with Disabilities' - Lynne Thompson

 

Volume 31 (2)

• 'Aversive Racism and Child Protection Practice with Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Children and Families' - Dr Dan Allen and Allison Hulmes
• 'Reflection and Initial Observations upon Returning to Placement on the Impact of Covid-19 on Service Users and Social Work Practice'  - Michael Cotterill
• 'The Toxic Trio, Adverse Childhood Experiences and the Family Court' - Dr Sheena Webb
• 'The Impact of Abduction and Alienation on Children' - Sarah-Cecilie Finkelstein Waters

 

Volume 31 (1)

• 'Fabricated or Induced Illness in Children:  The role of Frontline Social Workers in Recognition, Intervention and Decision Making' - Gretchen Precey
• 'Scotland:  Getting it Right for Every Child? - A Question of Competence or Custom and Practice?'  - Dr Sue Whitcombe
• 'Black Children's Lives Matter:  Nagalro Campaign to Reinstate the Repealed Provisions of S1(5) Adoption and Children Act 2002' - Julia Hughes

 

Volume 30 (4)

• 'The Acculturation Process of Adella' Julia Isikwe Hughes
• 'How Human Rights apply to Kinship Care in Liverpool - The Views of Professionals'  - Aoife Daly
• 'Group Localised Child Sexual Exploitation Offenders:  Who and Why?' - Dr Kish Bhatti-Sinclair

 

Volume 30 (3)

• 'Pain-inducing restraint of children and young peope in the Government's secure estate' - Carolyne Willow
• 'The use of assessment tools in parenting assessments'  - Maria Marrinan
• 'Twenty  years since the Macpherson report, how much do black children's lives matter in the UK?' - Julia Hughes

 

Volume 30 (2) 

• 'The impact of childhood sexual abuse on the survivors' parenting capacity' - Maria Marrinan
• 'The role of memory in parental alienation'  - Sarah Squires
• 'Children visiting family overseas: key knowledge for family court advisers' - Rodney Noon

 

Volume 30 (1) 

• 'Assessing the narratives of abused and alienated children:  Important differences in understanding the child's experiences for the purposes of assessment and planning in court proceedings' - Helen Young
• 'Relational Systems:  Giving, shifting or sharing power?'  - Ryan Wise

 

Volume 29 (4) 

• 'The PLO Reforms and Outcomes for Children' - Judith Masson and Jonathan Dickens
• 'From Active Participants to Passive Auditors:  Nagalro's concerns about the diminishing role of the Children's Guardian' - NAGALRO
• 'Review of the Handling of Domestic Abuse Allegations in the Family Court - A Progress Report' - Lucy Reed

 

Volume 29 (3) 

• 'Social Workers and Children's Guardians in the Family Justice System:  A Research-Based Future' - Sir James Munby
• 'Therapeutic Use of Fairy Tales in Child Sexual Abuse'  Dr Nesrin Duman and Esra Bridge
• 'It's Time to Ban the Physical Punishment of Children' - Dr Bernadette Saunders
• 'Responding to Harmful Practices - FGM, Breast Flattening and Child Abuse Linked to Faith or Belief' - Rohma Ullah

 

Volume 29 (2) 

• 'A Court for Migrant Children:  A Complete Pipe Dream?' - Catriona Jarvis
• 'Parental Alienation - Where Are We Now?'  Julie Doughty
• 'NSPCC School Service' - Tina Shaw

 

Volume 29 (1) 

• 'Social Workers' Experiences of Intervening in Child Neglect Cases in Affluent Families' - Claudia Bernard
• 'Acting in the Best Interests of Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children'  Sheila Melzak
• 'The Intelligent Child:  Instructing His Own Solicitor' - Emily Ward
• 'Afterthought, Not Incentive' - Kath Sharman

 

Volume 28 (4)

• Nagalro' s Guide to the Professional Time Guidance:  How to interpret and lawfully apply Cafcass' 'Draft Guidance on the use of professional time to benefit children'
• 'Understanding Group Localised Child Sexual Exploitation' - Kish Bhatti-Sinclare and Chris Smethurst
• 'Fathers, Children and the struggle to become a recognised parent:  using court processes to recalibrate skewed relationships' - Gill Gorell Barnes

 

Volume 28 (3) 

• 'Research on birth family contact for children who need out-of-home care' - June Thoburn
• 'The relational world of contact'  John Simmonds
• 'Video interaction guidance and the family courts - Monika Celebi and Rebecca Carr Hopkins
• 'New Perspectives on the alienation of children following conflictual parental separation' - Brian Cantwell

 

Volume 28 (2) 

• 'The family nurse partnership programme' - Nicole Hobson
• 'Contact disputes and allegations of domestic abuse - identifying best practices'  Prof Rosemary Hunter and Prof Shazia Choudhry
• 'The Parliamentary launch of the national enquiry into 'Thresholds'  - Eddie O'Hara
• 'Three children of West Yorkshire:  Using drama to help young people cope with difficult situations' - Tacye Nichols

 

Volume 28 (1) 

• 'When does pornography become a risk factor in family court assessments?' - Phil Watts and Amanda May
• 'Seen and Heard:  Children's involvement in court proceedings - the Legal Framework'  - Rodney W Noon
• 'Reflections from the Gard case and other recent 'difficult cases': could the English family courts be less 'anti-therapeutic' and more problem-solving?'  - Penelope Welbourne
• 'Specially trained dogs in the UK criminal justice system' - Elizabeth Spruin and Katarina Mozova

 

Volume 27 (3) 

• 'Parental Alienation or justifiable estrangement?  Assessing a child's resistance to a parent in the UK' - Dr Sue Whitcombe
• 'Safer Safeguarding:  How multi-agency services for children can learn from other safety-critical organisations'  Harry Harrison
• ''Reflections in recent developments in social work regulation and education  - Professor June Thoburn

 

Volume 27 (2)

• Reflecting on some of the experiences and psychological considerations of supporting unaccompanied asylum-seeking young people
• The meaning of the child to the adoptive parent:  understanding the contribution of the parent to the parent-child relationship in adoption
• Transparency through publicaton of family court judgements
• Personal safety for social workers

 

Volume 27 (1) 

• 'Assessing Children and Families - Art or Science, or Art and Science, the safeguarding assessment and analysis framework' - Arnon Bentovim
• 'Creating Families:  paths to parenthood for same-sex couples'  -Madeleine Reardon
• 'Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and the Care System?  - Kay Al-Ghani

 

Volume 26 (4) 

• 'If the Child Proections System isn't Fit for Purpose- where do we go from here?' - Sarah Phillimore
• 'Rethinking Child Protection Strategy: progress and next steps'  Dr Lauren Devine
• Permanence for Looked after Children:  confusing paths with destinations - Peter Bentley

 

Volume 26 (3) 

• 'Patriarchy and Harmful Practices:  Not a Problem for us?' - Leethan Bartholomew
• 'Family Group Conferences and Safeguarding Children'  Kate Parkinson and Deanna Edwards
• Are we getting it right for Chldren?  The Future of Permanency Planning in England and Wales - Julie Doughty

 

Volume 26 (2) 

• Open Letter from Nagalro in response to the policy paper:  Adoption: A vision for change (DfE) March 2016 - Nagalro
• 'It's in their Culture':  Working with automatic prejudice towards Gypsies, Roma and Travellers during care proceedings - Dr Daniel Allen
• Brief Encounters with Children - Gretchen Precey
• Eva Gregory - A Life in Social Work - Alison Paddle

 

Volume 26 (1) 

• Record of a Service using Mentalization-Based Therapy - Parenting together to help resolve entrenched conflict between separated parents over their chidlren, with particular emphasis on the impact of the work on the therapist - Kate Thompson
• Hearing Children in Family Proceedings - what we can learn from global practice - Aoife Daly
• Rupert Hughes:  Unsung Architect of the Children Act 1989 - Arran Poyser

 

Volume 25 (4) 

• Changing our ideas about change - Polly Baynes
• The Family Courts and Radicalisation of Children - Rodney Noon
• Cheering on Change and Encouraging Hope - Bill Stone

 

Volume 25 (3) 

• Is the Child Protection System Fit for Purpose? 
• Special Issue Reporting on a multidisiplinary conference held on 1 June 2015 - Featuring:  Lauren Devine; Brid Featherstone; Kate Harrington; Sir Mark Heley; Sarah Phillimore; Lisa Wolfe; Vicki Eillis; Kirsty Seddon; Jerry Lonsdale

 

Volume 25 (2) 

• Assessing Sibling Relationships for Placement:  A research review - Suzette Waterhouse
• Assessing Sibling Relationships for Placement: A Case Study - Mary Carden
• The Family Justice System and Recurrent Care Proceedings:  Are Birth Mothers given a Second Chance?  - Karen Broadhurst
• Children's Guardians and Independent Reviewing Officers:  Representing Children's Interests in Care Proceedings and Beyond - Jonathan Dickens

 

Volume 25 (1) 

• Ascertaining the wishes and feelings of children - Paul Bishop
• Developing contemporary private law case work in Cafcass? - Brian Cantwell
• A case for a legal test of relational harm in care proceedings  - Vanessa RIchardson

 

Volume 24 (3) 

• Continuing  conflicts in adoption law and policy - Peter Bentley
• Maternal outcasts, vulnerable mothers and repeat care proceedings - Karen Broadhurst
• What the Social Services and Well-Being (Wales) Act 2014 means for Children's social work - Julie Doughty
• Biking for Children in Care - Buidling a Bike Ride! - Gill Timmis

 

Volume 24 (2) June 2014

• Opportunities and Prospects for Independent Social Work - David Jockelson
• Recent Developments in Adoption Judgments and implications for Family Finding - David Ryden
• Understanding and Working with the Alienated Child - Karen Woodall

 

Volume 24 (1) March 2014

• Assessing Capacity to Protect in Kinship Care - Polly Baynes
• The Review of Private Law:  A Role for Cafcass in the Change Process? - Brian Cantwell

 

Volume 23 (4) December 2013

• Implications of recent developments in private child and family law for children's rights - Gillian Douglas
• The use of narrative in the assessment of children affected by domestic homicide: care, contact and therapeutic needs - Sinead Marriott, Marta Neil and Maria Ruegger
• Broadening my horizons: short-term independent social work in the Falkland Islands - Clare Mowbray

 

Volume 23 (3) September 2013

• Parenting assessment reports – 26 weeks or bust! - Jane Andrews
• Adoption: why the Children and Families Bill is not yet fit for purpose - Peter Bentley
• The revised Public Law Outline: social work under the spotlight - Anthony Douglas
• Working with children in a women’s refuge - Tina Shaw

 

Volume 23 (2) June 2013

• ‘Thou loathed issue of thy father’s loins’: some effects of early childhood maltreatment as seen in Shakespeare’s Richard III - David Pitcher
• Download cartoon illustrations for David Pitcher's article here
• Thinking towards belonging - Jenny Sprince
• Concurrent planning: a route to earlier permanence for young children - Rosemary Wolfson

 

Volume 23 (1) March 2013

• Life Story Work - A Journey Into a Child's World - Julia Isikwe Hughes
• Blinded by Neuroscience? A Discussion in Response to Wastell and White

 

Volume 22 (4) December 2012

• Papers! Papers! Papers! Contact notes in care proceedings - Charlotte Collier
• Meeting Children's Needs in a Compliance Culture: What Munro has to say to Cafcass - Alison Paddle
• Listening to the Voice of the Infant in Interim Contact: The value of observation - Biddy Youell

 

Volume 22 (3) September 2012

• South Asian and African-Caribbean Women's Experience of Cafcass - Ravi K Thiara and Aisha K Gill
• Putting ISWs on the Map: Nagalro's role in establishing independent social work - Eva Gregory and Sarah Saunders.

 

Volume 22 (2) June 2012

• Comment: Evaluating Expert Witness Psychological Reports:Exploring Quality(The Ireland Report) - Helen Mason
• The Contribution of Experts in Care Proceedings: Evaluation of Independent Social Work Reports in Care Proceedings -  Julia Brophy, Charlie Owen, Judith Sidaway and Jagbir Jhutti Johal
• O Guardian, Where Art Thou? - Martha Cover
• Contact Within Care Proceedings: The Legal Framework - Tim O’Regan

 

Volume 22 (1) Mar 2012

• Respect: Domestic Violence Perpetrator programmes and Dad's Space 1-2-1  - Neil Blacklock
• 'Meet the Team!' Identifying blocks to grandparents in supporting their grandchildren - David Pitcher
• Comment: The Munro Report v the Family Justice Review - David Bloomfield

 

Volume 21 (4) Dec 2011

• Independent Reviewing Officers:  Past, Present and Future? - Noel Arnold
• Towards Reunification:  Reconciling the Perceptions of Psychological Experts and Legal Professionals - Sue Candy
• Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: Not Just Another Pretty Face? - Edward P. RIley, Alejandra Infante, Sarah N. Mattson and Jennifer D. Thomas

 

Volume 21 (3) Sept 2011

• Experts, the Final Frontier? - Charlotte Collier
• Invisible Fathers and Gendered Practice: Reflections on the development and delivery of a training course for social work practitioners on working with fathers in the child protection context - Daryl Dugdale
• Family Justice Review and Public Law Proceedings: Time to experiment? - Ed Mitchell

 

Volume 21 (2) June 2011

• Special Feature - Family Justice Review: The Interim Report – Alan Bean; Julia Brophy; Sarah Coldrick; Ann Head; Edward Lloyd-Jones; Judith Masson; Mervyn Murch; Arran Poyser; Jane Robey; Penelope Welbourne.

 

Volume 21 (1) March 2011

• Family Justice: The practical economic case – David Jockelson
• The Ministry of Justice’s Consultation paper on Proposals for Reform of Legal Aid in England and Wales- the Nagalro response ­– Judith Timms and Judy Tomlinson

 

Volume 20 (4) Dec 2010

• Interim Contact During Care Proceedings - Polly Baynes
• The Coram Concurrent Planning Project:  A review of ten years’ experience - Rosemary Wolfson

 

Volume 20 (3) Sept 2010

• Engaging with family conflict in Rule 9.5 casework - Brian Cantwell
• ‘Do you see what I see?’ Thinking about contact in high conflict cases - David Pitcher

 

Volume 20 (2) June 2010

• Young people’s views about media access to family courts: Implications for welfare practitioners – Julia Brophy
• New trends in assessing parents who abuse drugs and alcohol and evaluating risk to their children – Julia Denning and Eva Gregory
• Negotiating the legal process: Domestic violence and child contact in the lives of South Asian women and children – Ravi Thiara