Journal of Children's Services: Volume 17 Issue 1

Support of young children from disadvantaged families in Switzerland: mixed-method evaluation of the home visitation program Schritt:weise

Patricia Lannen, Isabelle Duss

Children from disadvantaged families often already show developmental deficits at the time of school entry. The goal of Schritt:weise, a preventive, easy-access early education…

Indigenous youth transitioning from out-of-home care in Australia: a study of key challenges and effective practice responses

Philip Mendes, Rachel Standfield, Bernadette Saunders, Samone McCurdy, Jacinta Walsh, Lena Turnbull

This paper aims to report on the findings of a qualitative study that explored the views of 53 service providers assisting Indigenous young people (known in Australia as…

“Sometimes I feel at home” adolescents’ narratives of everyday life in residential care

Marianne Buen Sommerfeldt

A residential care is home for children who live there and is simultaneously a workplace for employees aiming to safeguard the needs and development of children. Studies have…

‘I don’t want my face on the front page of The Sun’: the ‘Baby P effect’ as a barrier to social worker discretion

Ciarán Murphy

The backdrop to the Munro Review of Child Protection was a narrative propagated in the British national press, and perpetuated particularly by the then opposition Conservative…

From care packages to Zoom cookery classes: youth work during the COVID-19 “lockdown”

Aileen Shaw, Bernadine Brady, Patrick Dolan

This paper aims to explore the experience of one large Irish youth work organisation, Foróige, to measures introduced during the initial phase of COVID-19 in 2020. In the face of…

Children’s participation in practice: comparing the views of managers and practitioners in an early intervention and prevention programme

Edel Tierney, Leonor Rodriguez, Danielle Kennan, Carmel Devaney, Bernadine Brady, John Canavan, Cormac Forkan, Anne Cassidy, Pat Malone, Caroline McGregor

Participation is the active involvement of children and young people in decision-making regarding issues that affect their lives. It is crucial in the context of child protection…