Editor, Julie Doughty, juliedoughty@freeuk.com

Seen and Heard is Nagalro's well-respected and widely-read quarterly journal and is free to members.  Our journal:

  • Informs readers about current issues, research, case law and developments
  • Identifies issues and promotes debate about policy and practice
  • Provides a forum for sharing experiences and opinions with professionals involved in the lives of children caught up in family proceedings
  • Analyses and updates best independent social work practice in child and family assessments
  • Explores work with children in family court proceedings.

Articles are written by colleagues in law, academia, social work and psychology. Each issue features news and comment; summaries of research and legislation updates; case law notes and book reviews. Articles, letters and contributions to the journal are particularly welcome from Nagalro members.

Notes for contributors are available here.

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Recent articles

Current Issue

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

Recent Issues

Volume 21 (4) Dec 2011

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

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Index to Seen and Heard articles

An index to articles published in Seen and Heard since 1991 is available here. Requests for copies of past articles should be directed to the Editor, Julie Doughty at juliedoughty@freeuk.com  Articles from Seen and Heard are abstracted on Child Data and Social Care Online.

Seen and Heard  ISSN 1744-1072