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Journal of Children's Services

Research informing policy and practice

ISSN: 1746-6660

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The Journal of Children’s Services is a quarterly title designed to encourage 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 increasing integration of children’s services (which includes activity organised by health, education, social care, police, youth justice and voluntary/independent agencies). It requires high standards of evidence and all articles are peer-reviewed.

Coverage

• 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.

Key Journal Audiences

The Journal is aimed at a range of key stakeholders working in the sector both in the UK and internationally, including:

• policy-makers in central government departments concerned with health, education, social care and justice for children and young people
• local policy-makers, managers and practitioners in children’s services
• children’s charities and campaigning and advocacy organisations
• researchers and academics in a range of subject areas, including social policy, criminology,
• health, education, psychology, psychiatry and social work
• groups representing the views of children and other service users
• trainers and disseminators of research on child well-being and children’s services.

Abstracted and Indexed in:

• British Nursing Index
• Educational Research Abstracts
• Illustrata
• Scopus
• Social Care Online
• SocINDEX
• ZETOC.

Journal of Children's Services is available as part of an online subscription to the Emerald Health and Social Care Subject Collection. For more information, please email collections@emeraldinsight.com.

This journal is a member of and subscribes to the
principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics.