Journal of Children's Services: Volume 14 Issue 3

Children at the centre of safety: challenging the false juxtaposition of protection and participation

Camille Warrington, Cath Larkins

Participation as a methodological and ethical issue in child protection research

Johanna Kiili, Johanna Moilanen

The purpose of this paper is to explore how children have been involved in research activities in recent international child protection research and what kinds of ethical and…

Independent Reviewing Officers’ and social workers’ perceptions of children’s participation in Children in Care Reviews

Clive Diaz, Hayley Pert, Nigel Patrick Thomas

The research reported here forms part of a study of children’s participation in children in care reviews and decision making in one local authority in England. The purpose of this…

Challenging dominant notions of participation and protection through a co-led disabled young researcher study

Geraldine Brady, Anita Franklin

In the UK, the Children and Families Act aims to create one assessment process for children with special educational needs or disability, through Education, Health and Care Plans…

Next steps in children and young people’s research, participation and protection from the perspective of young researchers

Dan Dan, David David, Evie Evie, Ollie Ollie, Donna Thomas, Cath Larkins

The purpose of this paper is to explore young researchers perspectives on children and young people’s research, participation and protection.

Qualitative research with primary school-aged children: ethical and practical considerations of evaluating a safeguarding programme in schools

Vicki Jackson-Hollis

The purpose of this paper is to explore some of the ethical and practical challenges of working with primary school-aged children to conduct qualitative service evaluations…

Co-producing and navigating consent in participatory research with young people

Elsie Whittington

Research within the fields of youth sexuality and safeguarding, and ethical governance more broadly, has traditionally prioritised risk aversion over the rights of young people to…

Young people and police making “Marginal Gains”: climbing fells, building relationships and changing police safeguarding practice

Fiona Jane Factor, Elizabeth Lillian Ackerley

The purpose of this paper is to describe a youth work model of participatory research practice which utilises a range of methods within non-traditional research settings…

From the ground up: young research advisors’ perspectives on relationships between participation and protection

C.J. Hamilton, Abbie Rodgers, Keeley Howard, Camille Warrington

This contribution is co-authored by three members of the Young Researchers’ Advisory Panel (YRAP) at the International Centre: Researching child sexual exploitation, violence and…