ARTICLES

• No smoke without fire:  The presumption of guilt in child abuse assessments - Paul Harrison
• Towards 'care aware' and 'trauma-informed' justice:  Speaking the language of care experience in the family justice system - Lucy Barnes
• Anti-racist framework for decision-making and transitioning children from minorised racial and ethnic groups into transracial adoptive families:  Is the AFDIT framework a help or hindrance to the placement of black children in care - Julia Isikwe Hughes

 

EDITORIAL

'......... Legal Aid Agency Data Breach'

ARTICLES

• Intermediaries why and how this can happen -  Dr Tina Pereira, Hon Res Fellow, City, University of London
• Resilience of Independent Social Workers working with children and families - Maria Marrinan, Course Leader of Social Work at the University of Suffolk and an ISW

 

EDITORIAL

......... and the crying need for mandatory reporting of child sexual abuse

 

ARTICLES

Volume 34 (4)

• 'From pipedream to pipeline' - Ciaran King, Europe Litigation Officer AIRE Center, Consultant at Methoria and Catriona Jarvis, Director and Chair of Trustees of Methoria and Co-Covener of its First Rights Programme
• 'The Lost Dads Project: Fathers and Family Breakdown' - Professor Ben Hine, University of West London

 

EDITORIAL

• '......lives will be at risk if we do not see action'

 

Volume 34 (3)

• 'Children must stay the focus when parental contact breaks down' - Professor Jo Delahunty KC
• 'Communiation challenges in Family Court: Understanding the unique needs of autistic children' - Professor Olga Bogdashina
• 'An exploration of psychological assessments and therapies: one Local authority's perspective' Richard Devine and Leigh Zywek

 

EDITORIAL

• 'Who will guard the guardians of Social Work England?'

 

Volume 34 (2)

• 'A New Social Contract with Vulnerable Children and Families' - Anne Longfield CBE
• 'Helping Families Living in Poor Housing Conditions' - Natalie Wilkins
• 'Exploring Domestice Abuse in the LGBTQ+ Community: A Critical Analysis' Sandra van Empel
• Open Letter from Nagalro to the Government regarding Deprivation of Liberty Orders

 

EDITORIAL

• 'Poverty is killing children'

 

Volume 34 (1)

• 'Ending the Gillick Enigma: A Call for a Statutory Test to Determine a Child's Capacity to Decide' - Camilla Parker
• 'Kinship Carers and Universal Credit:  Steering Around the New Bear Traps' - Lynne Thompson

 

EDITORIAL

• 'Just a statistic'

 

Volume 33 (4)

• Arbitration in Children's Cases:  A Sensible Alternative to Delay in Private Law?' - Elizabeth Isaacs
• 'The Dirty Dozen in Child Protection' - Lynn Davis
• 'Children and the Illegal Migration Act 2023' - Rodney Noon

 

Volume 33 (3)

• 'Evidence-informed intervention for perpetrators of domestic abuse: Lessons from the Family Drug and Alcohol Courts' - Carolyn Lipp, Sheena Webb and Hannah Jeffrey
• What's in a Word?  The transformational power of  domestic abuse informed documention' - David Mandel and Anna Mitchell
• 'Changes afoot?  An outline of the Law Commission's proposals for the reform of surrogacy law' - Victoria Flowers

 

Volume 33 (2)

• 'Understanding the real cost of deepening poverty for children - can we remain hopeful and helpful?' - Sir James Munby
• 'Say Cheese!  How slices of emmenthal could help mnage risk in child protection' - Lynn Davis

• 'Lake Chad Basin:  Children and Youths in crisis' - Bolanle Kayode

• 'What every ISW must know about ransomeware and cyber-security for children' - Rodney Noon

Volume 33 (1)

• 'Understanding the True Picture of Child Sexual Abuse in England and Wales' - Kairika Karsna
• 'Children's Rights in The British Overseas Territories from St Helena to the Turks and Caicos' - Samantha Phippard

 

Volume 32 (4)

• 'Beyond the Timescales:  Do we really have time to address parental trauma within the Family Court?' - Dr Sheena Webb
• 'Seeing and Hearing Children in the shadow of Family Imprisonment' - Dr Fiona Donson
• 'Residential Children's Homes in England and Wales: A Snapshot'

 

Volume 32 (3)

• 'Protecting More Children Better: Improving practice with black, asian and minority ethnic children who have experienced child sexual abuse' - Jabeer Butt OBE, Dr Sophie Laws and Melanie Phillips
• 'De-Colonising Social Work Practice' - Professor Kish Bhatti-Sinclair

 

Volume 32 (2)

• 'Improving Children's Experiences of Private Law Proceedings - Alice Roe
• 'A Guide for Children's Guardians dealing with press applications in Children's Cases' - Rodney Noon

Volume 32 (1)

• The Digital World of Adolescent Sexuality: 'Pornography' and 'Youth Digital Intimacies' - Dr Emily Setty
• Nagalro's Black Children's Lives Matter Response to the 'Adoption Strategy - Achieving Excellence Everywhere'  - Julia Hughes and Yvonne Wilson
• A Personal Walk around Adoption and Social Work before the Adoption Act 1976 

 

Volume 31 (4)

• 'The Wales Adoption Cohort Study' - Julie Doughty
• 'How 'Empowered' are they really?  Understanding and responding to children who are 'over-empowered' within Family Breakdown'  - Dr David Pitcher, Dr Nigel Blagg, Dr Mattie Idema-Sharman, Mary Holba, Joyne Stallard 
• 'Alienation, Abduction and The Domestic Abuse Act 2021' - The Baroness Meyer CBE

 

Volume 31 (3)

• 'Nurturing Relationships between Looked-After Brothers and Sisters' - Shelagh Beckett
• 'Mothers of Children Removed under a Care Order:  Outcomes and Experiences'  - Dr Vanessa Richardson and Professor Alison Brammer
• 'Family Drug and Alcohol Courts: A Transformative Approach to Care Proceedings' - Phillippa Heath-Philpotts
• 'Unlocking Disability Living Allowance for Foster Children with Disabilities' - Lynne Thompson

 

Volume 31 (2)

• 'Aversive Racism and Child Protection Practice with Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Children and Families' - Dr Dan Allen and Allison Hulmes
• 'Reflection and Initial Observations upon Returning to Placement on the Impact of Covid-19 on Service Users and Social Work Practice'  - Michael Cotterill
• 'The Toxic Trio, Adverse Childhood Experiences and the Family Court' - Dr Sheena Webb
• 'The Impact of Abduction and Alienation on Children' - Sarah-Cecilie Finkelstein Waters

 

Volume 31 (1)

• 'Fabricated or Induced Illness in Children:  The role of Frontline Social Workers in Recognition, Intervention and Decision Making' - Gretchen Precey
• 'Scotland:  Getting it Right for Every Child? - A Question of Competence or Custom and Practice?'  - Dr Sue Whitcombe
• 'Black Children's Lives Matter:  Nagalro Campaign to Reinstate the Repealed Provisions of S1(5) Adoption and Children Act 2002' - Julia Hughes

 

Volume 30 (4)

• 'The Acculturation Process of Adella' Julia Isikwe Hughes
• 'How Human Rights apply to Kinship Care in Liverpool - The Views of Professionals'  - Aoife Daly
• 'Group Localised Child Sexual Exploitation Offenders:  Who and Why?' - Dr Kish Bhatti-Sinclair

 

Volume 30 (3)

• 'Pain-inducing restraint of children and young peope in the Government's secure estate' - Carolyne Willow
• 'The use of assessment tools in parenting assessments'  - Maria Marrinan
• 'Twenty  years since the Macpherson report, how much do black children's lives matter in the UK?' - Julia Hughes

 

Volume 30 (2) 

• 'The impact of childhood sexual abuse on the survivors' parenting capacity' - Maria Marrinan
• 'The role of memory in parental alienation'  - Sarah Squires
• 'Children visiting family overseas: key knowledge for family court advisers' - Rodney Noon

 

Volume 30 (1) 

• 'Assessing the narratives of abused and alienated children:  Important differences in understanding the child's experiences for the purposes of assessment and planning in court proceedings' - Helen Young
• 'Relational Systems:  Giving, shifting or sharing power?'  - Ryan Wise

 

Volume 29 (4) 

• 'The PLO Reforms and Outcomes for Children' - Judith Masson and Jonathan Dickens
• 'From Active Participants to Passive Auditors:  Nagalro's concerns about the diminishing role of the Children's Guardian' - NAGALRO
• 'Review of the Handling of Domestic Abuse Allegations in the Family Court - A Progress Report' - Lucy Reed

 

Volume 29 (3) 

• 'Social Workers and Children's Guardians in the Family Justice System:  A Research-Based Future' - Sir James Munby
• 'Therapeutic Use of Fairy Tales in Child Sexual Abuse'  Dr Nesrin Duman and Esra Bridge
• 'It's Time to Ban the Physical Punishment of Children' - Dr Bernadette Saunders
• 'Responding to Harmful Practices - FGM, Breast Flattening and Child Abuse Linked to Faith or Belief' - Rohma Ullah

 

Volume 29 (2) 

• 'A Court for Migrant Children:  A Complete Pipe Dream?' - Catriona Jarvis
• 'Parental Alienation - Where Are We Now?'  Julie Doughty
• 'NSPCC School Service' - Tina Shaw

 

Volume 29 (1) 

• 'Social Workers' Experiences of Intervening in Child Neglect Cases in Affluent Families' - Claudia Bernard
• 'Acting in the Best Interests of Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children'  Sheila Melzak
• 'The Intelligent Child:  Instructing His Own Solicitor' - Emily Ward
• 'Afterthought, Not Incentive' - Kath Sharman

 

Volume 28 (4)

• Nagalro' s Guide to the Professional Time Guidance:  How to interpret and lawfully apply Cafcass' 'Draft Guidance on the use of professional time to benefit children'
• 'Understanding Group Localised Child Sexual Exploitation' - Kish Bhatti-Sinclare and Chris Smethurst
• 'Fathers, Children and the struggle to become a recognised parent:  using court processes to recalibrate skewed relationships' - Gill Gorell Barnes

 

Volume 28 (3) 

• 'Research on birth family contact for children who need out-of-home care' - June Thoburn
• 'The relational world of contact'  John Simmonds
• 'Video interaction guidance and the family courts - Monika Celebi and Rebecca Carr Hopkins
• 'New Perspectives on the alienation of children following conflictual parental separation' - Brian Cantwell

 

Volume 28 (2) 

• 'The family nurse partnership programme' - Nicole Hobson
• 'Contact disputes and allegations of domestic abuse - identifying best practices'  Prof Rosemary Hunter and Prof Shazia Choudhry
• 'The Parliamentary launch of the national enquiry into 'Thresholds'  - Eddie O'Hara
• 'Three children of West Yorkshire:  Using drama to help young people cope with difficult situations' - Tacye Nichols

 

Volume 28 (1) 

• 'When does pornography become a risk factor in family court assessments?' - Phil Watts and Amanda May
• 'Seen and Heard:  Children's involvement in court proceedings - the Legal Framework'  - Rodney W Noon
• 'Reflections from the Gard case and other recent 'difficult cases': could the English family courts be less 'anti-therapeutic' and more problem-solving?'  - Penelope Welbourne
• 'Specially trained dogs in the UK criminal justice system' - Elizabeth Spruin and Katarina Mozova

 

Volume 27 (3) 

• 'Parental Alienation or justifiable estrangement?  Assessing a child's resistance to a parent in the UK' - Dr Sue Whitcombe
• 'Safer Safeguarding:  How multi-agency services for children can learn from other safety-critical organisations'  Harry Harrison
• ''Reflections in recent developments in social work regulation and education  - Professor June Thoburn

 

Volume 27 (2)

• Reflecting on some of the experiences and psychological considerations of supporting unaccompanied asylum-seeking young people
• The meaning of the child to the adoptive parent:  understanding the contribution of the parent to the parent-child relationship in adoption
• Transparency through publicaton of family court judgements
• Personal safety for social workers

 

Volume 27 (1) 

• 'Assessing Children and Families - Art or Science, or Art and Science, the safeguarding assessment and analysis framework' - Arnon Bentovim
• 'Creating Families:  paths to parenthood for same-sex couples'  -Madeleine Reardon
• 'Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and the Care System?  - Kay Al-Ghani

 

Volume 26 (4) 

• 'If the Child Proections System isn't Fit for Purpose- where do we go from here?' - Sarah Phillimore
• 'Rethinking Child Protection Strategy: progress and next steps'  Dr Lauren Devine
• Permanence for Looked after Children:  confusing paths with destinations - Peter Bentley

 

Volume 26 (3) 

• 'Patriarchy and Harmful Practices:  Not a Problem for us?' - Leethan Bartholomew
• 'Family Group Conferences and Safeguarding Children'  Kate Parkinson and Deanna Edwards
• Are we getting it right for Chldren?  The Future of Permanency Planning in England and Wales - Julie Doughty

 

Volume 26 (2) 

• Open Letter from Nagalro in response to the policy paper:  Adoption: A vision for change (DfE) March 2016 - Nagalro
• 'It's in their Culture':  Working with automatic prejudice towards Gypsies, Roma and Travellers during care proceedings - Dr Daniel Allen
• Brief Encounters with Children - Gretchen Precey
• Eva Gregory - A Life in Social Work - Alison Paddle

 

Volume 26 (1) 

• Record of a Service using Mentalization-Based Therapy - Parenting together to help resolve entrenched conflict between separated parents over their chidlren, with particular emphasis on the impact of the work on the therapist - Kate Thompson
• Hearing Children in Family Proceedings - what we can learn from global practice - Aoife Daly
• Rupert Hughes:  Unsung Architect of the Children Act 1989 - Arran Poyser

 

Volume 25 (4) 

• Changing our ideas about change - Polly Baynes
• The Family Courts and Radicalisation of Children - Rodney Noon
• Cheering on Change and Encouraging Hope - Bill Stone

 

Volume 25 (3) 

• Is the Child Protection System Fit for Purpose? 
• Special Issue Reporting on a multidisiplinary conference held on 1 June 2015 - Featuring:  Lauren Devine; Brid Featherstone; Kate Harrington; Sir Mark Heley; Sarah Phillimore; Lisa Wolfe; Vicki Eillis; Kirsty Seddon; Jerry Lonsdale

 

Volume 25 (2) 

• Assessing Sibling Relationships for Placement:  A research review - Suzette Waterhouse
• Assessing Sibling Relationships for Placement: A Case Study - Mary Carden
• The Family Justice System and Recurrent Care Proceedings:  Are Birth Mothers given a Second Chance?  - Karen Broadhurst
• Children's Guardians and Independent Reviewing Officers:  Representing Children's Interests in Care Proceedings and Beyond - Jonathan Dickens

 

Volume 25 (1) 

• Ascertaining the wishes and feelings of children - Paul Bishop
• Developing contemporary private law case work in Cafcass? - Brian Cantwell
• A case for a legal test of relational harm in care proceedings  - Vanessa RIchardson

 

Volume 24 (3) 

• Continuing  conflicts in adoption law and policy - Peter Bentley
• Maternal outcasts, vulnerable mothers and repeat care proceedings - Karen Broadhurst
• What the Social Services and Well-Being (Wales) Act 2014 means for Children's social work - Julie Doughty
• Biking for Children in Care - Buidling a Bike Ride! - Gill Timmis

 

Volume 24 (2) June 2014

• Opportunities and Prospects for Independent Social Work - David Jockelson
• Recent Developments in Adoption Judgments and implications for Family Finding - David Ryden
• Understanding and Working with the Alienated Child - Karen Woodall

 

Volume 24 (1) March 2014

• Assessing Capacity to Protect in Kinship Care - Polly Baynes
• The Review of Private Law:  A Role for Cafcass in the Change Process? - Brian Cantwell

 

Volume 23 (4) December 2013

• Implications of recent developments in private child and family law for children's rights - Gillian Douglas
• The use of narrative in the assessment of children affected by domestic homicide: care, contact and therapeutic needs - Sinead Marriott, Marta Neil and Maria Ruegger
• Broadening my horizons: short-term independent social work in the Falkland Islands - Clare Mowbray

 

Volume 23 (3) September 2013

• Parenting assessment reports – 26 weeks or bust! - Jane Andrews
• Adoption: why the Children and Families Bill is not yet fit for purpose - Peter Bentley
• The revised Public Law Outline: social work under the spotlight - Anthony Douglas
• Working with children in a women’s refuge - Tina Shaw

 

Volume 23 (2) June 2013

• ‘Thou loathed issue of thy father’s loins’: some effects of early childhood maltreatment as seen in Shakespeare’s Richard III - David Pitcher
• Download cartoon illustrations for David Pitcher's article here
• Thinking towards belonging - Jenny Sprince
• Concurrent planning: a route to earlier permanence for young children - Rosemary Wolfson

 

Volume 23 (1) March 2013

• Life Story Work - A Journey Into a Child's World - Julia Isikwe Hughes
• Blinded by Neuroscience? A Discussion in Response to Wastell and White

 

Volume 22 (4) December 2012

• Papers! Papers! Papers! Contact notes in care proceedings - Charlotte Collier
• Meeting Children's Needs in a Compliance Culture: What Munro has to say to Cafcass - Alison Paddle
• Listening to the Voice of the Infant in Interim Contact: The value of observation - Biddy Youell

 

Volume 22 (3) September 2012

• South Asian and African-Caribbean Women's Experience of Cafcass - Ravi K Thiara and Aisha K Gill
• Putting ISWs on the Map: Nagalro's role in establishing independent social work - Eva Gregory and Sarah Saunders.

 

Volume 22 (2) June 2012

• Comment: Evaluating Expert Witness Psychological Reports:Exploring Quality(The Ireland Report) - Helen Mason
• The Contribution of Experts in Care Proceedings: Evaluation of Independent Social Work Reports in Care Proceedings -  Julia Brophy, Charlie Owen, Judith Sidaway and Jagbir Jhutti Johal
• O Guardian, Where Art Thou? - Martha Cover
• Contact Within Care Proceedings: The Legal Framework - Tim O’Regan

 

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

 

Volume 21 (4) Dec 2011

• Independent Reviewing Officers:  Past, Present and Future? - Noel Arnold
• Towards Reunification:  Reconciling the Perceptions of Psychological Experts and Legal Professionals - Sue Candy
• Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: Not Just Another Pretty Face? - Edward P. RIley, Alejandra Infante, Sarah N. Mattson and Jennifer D. Thomas

 

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