Journal of Children's Services: Volume 1 Issue 1

Editorial: Why another journal?

Michael Little, Nick Axford

Service use by families with children adopted from Romania

Jenny Castle, Michael Rutter, Celia Beckett, Emma Colvert, Christine Groothues, Amanda Hawkins, Jana Kreppner, Thomas O'Connor, Suzanne Stevens, Edmund Sonuga‐Barke

Service use between six and 11 years of age is reported for children adopted from Romania into UK families, and compared with that for children adopted within the UK before six…

Evaluating Springboard: impact of a family support programme in Ireland

Kieran McKeown, Trutz Haase, Jonathan Pratschke

The article reports results from an evaluation of Springboard, a family support programme introduced in Ireland during 1998. The evaluation is based on a non‐experimental design…

A review of parental engagement in parenting interventions and strategies to promote it

Alina Morawska, Matthew Sanders

Despite the importance of increasing engagement and minimising attrition and drop‐out in parenting interventions, there is a paucity of empirical evidence examining factors…

Well‐being: the next revolution in children's services?

Bill Jordan

The concept of ‘well‐being’ is entering into the policy debate on the back of recent research on ‘happiness’ ‐ self‐assessed evaluations of quality of life. It stands for a…

Sure Start: where did it come from; where is it going?

Norman Glass

This article describes the origin of the UK's Sure Start programme, an innovative early years' programme launched in 1998. The programme owed its beginnings to support from the UK…

Interview with Lord Laming Reflections on the future of children's services in England and Wales

Tim Hobbs, Dwan Kaoukji, Michael Little

Like most western developed countries, there have been inquiries in England and Wales from time to time into the deaths of children who have been under the watch of social…

Safeguarding and Promoting the Well‐being of Children, Families and Communities

Emma McWilliam