full publication list

books

• Access Disputes in Child Care (with Millham, S., Bullock, R. and Hosie, K.), Gower, 1989

• Young Men in Prison: The Criminal Identity explored through the Rules of Behaviour , Dartmouth, 1990

• Going Home: The Return of Children Separated from their Families (with Bullock, R. and Millham, S.), Dartmouth, 1993

• Residential Care for Children: A Review of the Research (with Bullock, R. and Millham, S.), HMSO, 1993

• Child Protection: Messages from Research (with Bullock, R. and Mount, K.), HMSO, 1999

• A Life without Problems? The Achievements of a Therapeutic Community (with Kelly, S.), Arena, 1995

• Secure Treatment Outcomes: The Care Careers of Very Difficult Adolescents (with Bullock, R. and Millham, S.), Ashgate, 1998

• Children Going Home: The Reunification of Families (with Bullock, R. and Gooch, D.), Ashgate, 1998

• Making Residential Care Work: Structure and Culture in Children's Homes (with Brown, E., Bullock, R. and Hobson, C.), Ashgate, 1998

• Research in Practice: Experiments in Development and Information Design (with Bullock, R. and Mount, K.), Ashgate, 1999

• Caring for Children Away from Home (with Archer, L., Hicks, L. and Mount, K.), Wiley, 1999

• Prevention and Early Intervention with Children in Need (with Mount, K.), Ashgate, 1999

• Refocusing Children's Services Towards Prevention: Lessons from the Literature (with Axford, N.) Department for Education and Skills, 2004

• Forty Years of Research, Policy and Practice in Children’s Services (with Axford, N., Berry, V. and Morpeth, L. (eds.), Wiley and Son, 2005

• Going Home: Returning Children Separated from their Families (a) Key Factors in the Return Process; (b) A Pocket Guide for Families of Children Looked After (with Bullock, R. and Mount, K.), Dartington Social Research Unit, 1992

• Matching Needs and Services: The Audit and Planning of Provision for Children Looked After by Local Authorities (with Bullock, R. and Mount, K.), HMSO, 1995

• Structure, Culture and Outcome: How to Improve Residential Services for Children , (with Bullock, R. and Mount, K.), Dartington Social Research Unit, 1999

• Matching Needs and Services for All Children in Need (with Ryan, M. and Tunnard, J.), WHP, 2000

• Going Home? Findings and Guidance to Help Professionals Make Good Judgements about the Re-unification of Families, (with Roger Bullock and Ken Taylor), WHP, 2002

• Prediction: Perspectives on Diagnosis, Prognosis and Interventions for Children in Need, WHP, 2002

• Aggregating Data: Better Management Information and Planning in Children’s Services, (with Nick Axford and Louise Morpeth), WHP, 2002

• Paperwork: The Clinical Assessment of Children in Need (with Mount, K), WHP, 2003

• Threshold: Determining the Extent of Impairment to Children's Development (with Axford, N. and Morpeth, L), WHP, 2003

• Evaluating Good Practice with Children and Families: a practitioners’ primer (with Nick Axford and Louise Morpeth), WHP, 2003

• Integrated Working: A Guide, Integrated Care Network, 2004

• What works in Residential Child Care: A Review of Research Evidence and Practical Considerations (with Clough, R., Bullock, R. and Ward, A), National Children's Bureau, 2006

• 'Coming into substitute care', 'Residential styles and approaches', 'Children and group living', 'Boundaries' and 'Case studies' in Course P653, Caring for Children and Young People, Open University, 1985, (with Bullock, R., Hosie, K. and Berridge, D.)

• 'Residential education in Britain: continuity and conflict' in Kashti, Y., and Arieli, M. (eds.), Residential Settings and the Community: Congruence and Conflict, pp. 190-205, Freund, 1987 ((with Bullock, R. and Millham, S.)

• 'Residential care for children' in The Research Reviewed (The Wagner Report), pp. 57-124, National Institute for Social Work/HMSO, 1988 (with Parker, R., Millham, S., Bullock, R. and Hosie, K.)

• Memorandum in House of Commons Social Services Committee, Children in Care, pp. 30-32, HMSO, 1988 (with Millham, S., Bullock, R. and Hosie, K.)

• 'Managing the family contacts of children in care, professional and legislative issues: The experience of England and Wales' in Hudson, J. and Galaway, B. (eds.), International Research Perspectives on Interventions with Young Persons, pp. 83-92, Kluwer, 1989 (with Bullock, R.)

• 'Alcuni aspetti sistema penale minorile in Gran Bretagna' in Fiorention, E. and Moro, A. (eds.) Minorie Giustina, pp. 173-186, Fondazione Emanuela Zancan, 1990

• 'Specialised residential treatment for difficult adolescents: some recent findings' in Hellinckx, W., Broekaert, E., Vanden Berge, A. and Colton, M. (eds.), Innovations in Residential Care, pp. 237-246, Acco, 1991 (with Millham, S.)

• 'Careers and process in preventative services for young people in England' in Otto, H. and Flosser, G. (eds.), How to Organize Prevention, pp. 367-374, de Gruyter, 1992 (with Millham, S)

• ' Applying restitutive justice to young offenders: observations from the United Kingdom', in Messmer, H. and Otto, H. (eds.), Restorative Justice on Trial, pp. 367-378, Kluwer, 1992 (with Bullock, R. and Millham, S.)

• 'The relationship between quantitative and qualitative approaches in social policy research' in Brannen, J. (ed.), Mixing Methods: Qualitative and Quantitative Research, pp. 81-100, Avebury, 1992 (with Bullock, R. and Millham, S.)

• 'Residential Care for children and the issue of social climate: future research, trends and development' in J. van der Pleog, P. van den Bergh, M. Klomp, E. Knork and M. Smit (eds.), Vulnerable Youth in Residential Care, pp. 101-118, Garant, 1992

• 'Establishing a family support group for parents with children in care or accommodation' in P. Marsh and J. Triseliotis (eds.), Prevention and Reunification in Child Care, pp. 106-119, Batsford, 1993 (with Bullock, R. and Millham, S.)

• 'The United Kingdom' in Colton, M J. and Hellinckx, W (eds.), Child Care in the EC: A Country-Specific guide to foster and residential care, pp. 212-231, Arena, 1993 (with Bullock, R)

• 'An overview' in Kahan, B. (ed.), Residential Care for Children, pp. 51-58, Department of Health/HMSO, 1993

• 'Going Home: The return of children separated from their families' in Ambramczyk, L. (ed.), International Re-unification Seminar, pp. 46-51, University of South Carolina Press, 1993 (with Bullock, R. and Millham, S.)

• 'The care careers of extremely difficult and disturbed young people' in Broekaert, E. and Van Hore, G. (eds.), Orthopedagogishe Recks Gent, pp. 61-70, Universiteit Gent, 1993 (with Millham, S. and Bullock, R.)

• 'Research on partnerships' in Jackson, S. and Morris, K. (eds.), Looking at Partnership Teaching in Social Work Qualifying Programmes, pp. 25-35, CCETSW, 1994 (with Bullock, R.)

• 'Linking research and development: Return home as experienced by separated children' in Colton, M., Hellinckx, W., Ghesquière and Williams, M. (eds.), The Art and Science of Child Care, pp. 19-32, Arena, 1995 (with Bullock, R.)

• 'Life After Caldecot' in Little, M (ed.) A Life Without Problems? The Achievements of a Therapeutic Community, pp. 151-188, Arena, 1995 (with Bullock, R. and Gooch, D)

• 'Conclusions' in Ward, H. (ed.), Looking After Children: Research into Practice, pp. 181-188, HMSO, 1995 (with Ward, H.)

• 'Pragmatismo nelle ricerea sociale' in Vecchiato, T. (ed.), La Valutazione dei Servizi Sociali e Sanitari, pp. 245-252, Fondazione Emanuela Zancan, Padua, 1995

• 'Family and social relationships' in Jackson, S. and Kilroe, S. (eds.), Looking After Children: Good Parenting, Good Outcomes, pp. 24-28, HMSO, 1995

• 'Who are the children and what are their needs? The socio-economic context of family support' in Working Together for Children's Welfare: Family Support in Protecting the Child, pp. 7-9, Michael Sieff Foundation, 1995

• 'Pragmatism in social policy research' in Vecchiato, T. (ed.) The Evaluation of Social and Health Services, pp. 190-196, Fondazione Emanuela Zancan, Padua, 1995

• 'Family and Social Relations' in Looking After Children - Good Parenting, Good Outcomes, pp. 41-46, HMSO, 1996

• 'Child Abuse and Child Protection: recent research findings and their implications in Seminar - Research on Social Programmes for Children, Youth and Families, Oslo, The International Initiative, 1995 (with Davies, D.)

• 'Neglect: The Research Implications' in Neglect: A Fifty Year Search for Answers, pp. 19-28, The Bridge Child Care Development Service/Islington ACPC, 1996

• 'The refocusing of children's services: the contribution of research' in Parton, N. (ed.), Child Protection and Family Support: Tensions, Contradictions and Possibilities, pp. 25-38, Routledge, 1997

• 'A year on from messages from research' in Armstrong, H. (ed.), Refocusing Children's Services Conference, Dept. Health/ADSS, Sept. 26 th 1996, pp.12-15, Dept. of Health, 1997

• 'Taking forward the messages of Matching Need and Services' in Strategic Planning for Children's Services Seminar, pp. 83-85, Dept. Health/National Children's Bureau, 1997

• ‘The experience of early intervention: a review of practice in the USA and the UK’ in Bailey, R. (ed.), Transforming Children’s Lives: The Importance of Early Intervention, pp. 58-63, Department of Health/FPSC, 1999

• ‘Going home’, in Colla, H., Gabriel, T., Millham, S., Muller-Teusler, H. and Winkler, M. (eds.), Handbuch Heimerziehung und Pflegekinderwesen in Europa, pp. 749-54, Luchterland, Krifel, 1999

• ‘Definition of Family Support’ in Davies, M., (ed.), The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Social Work, pp. 132-134, Oxford, Blackwell, 2000

• ‘Children’s Return from State Care to School’ in Jackson, S. (ed.), Nobody Ever Told Us School Mattered, pp95-110, London, BAAF, 2000

• ‘A Comparative View of Child Welfare: Britain and the United States’ in Wattenburg, E. (ed.), A Social Justice Framework for Child Welfare: A New Agenda for a New Century, pp. 40-46, Minneapolis, CURA, 2001

• 'Definitions of Secure Accommodation and Family Support' in Davies, M (ed.) The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Work, pp.132-134, Blackwell, 2002 (with Bullock, R)

• ‘Developing a Taxonomy for Children in Need’ in Ward, H. and Rose, W. (eds), Approaches to Needs Assessment in Children’s Services, pp. 127-146, London, Jessica Kingsley, 2002

• ‘The Contribution of Children’s Services to the Protection of Children’ in Browne, K., Hanks, H., Stratton, P. and Hamilton, C., Early Prediciton and Prevention of Child Abuse: A Handbook, pp. 267-278, Chichester, John Wiley, 2002

• ‘The Law Concerning Services for Children with Social and Psychological Problems’, in Rutter, M. and Taylor, E., (eds.), Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Blackwell Scientific, 2002

• ‘A Utilizacâo de uma linguagem comum a fim de mudar o padrâo de servicos para criancas necessitadas’ in Rizzini, I. (ed.), Pesquisa em Acâo: Criancas, adolescentes, familias e comunidades, CESPI/USU, 2002

• ‘Predicting the likelihood of family reunification in the foster care system’ in Diskurs 2002/3 – Riskio-einschatzung: Emprisch-quantitative Verhafen in der Sozialen Arbeit (with Axford, N., Bullock, R. and Morpeth, L.), Deutsches Jugend Institut, 2003

• ‘Administrative frameworks and services for very difficult adolescents in England’ in Bailey, S. and Dolan. M. (eds.), Adolescent Forensic Psychiatry, Hodder Arnold, 2004

• ‘Experiments in using practice tools to disseminate research’ in Klockner, C. and Paetzel, U. (eds.) Kindheitsforschung und Kommunale Praxis, VS Verlag, 2005

• 'Introduction' in Axford, N., Berry, V., Little, M. and Morpeth, L (eds.) Forty Years of Research, Policy and Practice in Children's Services, pp. 3-12, Wiley and Son, 2005 (with Axford, N., Berry, V. and Morpeth, L)

• 'The evolution and family support' in Axford, N., Berry, V., Little, M. and Morpeth, L (eds.) Forty Years of Research, Policy and Practice in Children's Services, pp.119-134, Wiley and Son, 2005 (with Sinclair, R)

• 'Messages for research, policy and practice' in Axford, N., Berry, V., Little, M. and Morpeth, L (eds.) Forty Years of Research, Policy and Practice in Children's Services, pp.193-208, Wiley and Son, 2005 (with Axford, N., Berry, V., Madge, J. and Morpeth, L)

• 'Research-based practice tools to improve child welfare services in England: using the Going Home practice tool to support the effective reunification of families' in Chaskin, R. and Rosenfeld, J. (eds.) Research for Action: Cross-national Perspectives on Connecting Knowledge, Policy, and Practice for Children, pp. 88-110, Oxford University Press, 2008 (with Axford, N., Berry, V., Bullock, R., Madge, J., Morpeth, L. and Mount, K)

• Services for the Adolescent Offender in Somerset: The Contribution of the CSV/Somerset Local Partnership Scheme (with Millham, S., Berridge, D., Bullock, R. and Hosie, K), Community Service Volunteers, 1985

• The Orbit Intermediate Treatment Project: Research Findings and Suggestions for Future Developments (with Millham, S., Bullock, R. and Hosie, K.), National Children's Home, 1986

• Adolescents in Rural Areas: The Contribution of KITE and CITW (Cornwall) Intermediate Treatment Projects (with Millham, S., Bullock, R. and Hosie, K.), National Children's Home, 1987

• Research into Four Barnardo's London Divisional Schools (with Berridge, D., Bowyer, J., Bullock, R., Cleaver, H., Hosie, K. and Millham, S.), Dartington Social Research Unit/ National Children's Bureau, 1987

• The Older Adolescent Offender (with Millham, S.), National Children's Home, 1988

• Difficult to place children: The Role of Security (with Millham, S.), Thames/ Anglia Social Services Inspectorate, 1988

• Community Service Volunteers Independent Living Scheme (with Bowyer, J., Bullock, R., Hosie, K. and Millham, S.), Bristol Papers, School of Applied Social Studies, University of Bristol, 1989

• Access to Children in Care: Practitioners' Views (with Bullock, R., Hosie, K. and Millham, S.), Bristol Papers, School of Applied Social Studies, University of Bristol, 1990

• Secure Accommodation for Children: Research Highlight No. 103 (with Bullock, R.), National Children's Bureau, 1991

• An Introduction to Social Services for Children and Families (with Bullock, R. and Kahan, M.), Open University, 1992

• Taking Forward Specialist Services for Young Offenders: The Hampshire Young Offenders Community Support Scheme (with Leitch, H. and Ward, H.), NCH/Hampshire Probation Service, 1993

• Custodial Sentences for Persistent Young Offenders in West Devon (with Leitch, H.), Devon Social Services, 1993

• Area Child Protection Committees: A Research Study (with Bullock, R. and Mount, K.), Mid and South Glamorgan ACPC, 1995

• A Life without Problems? Responses to research at the Caldecott Community (with Kelly, S. and Mount, K.), DSRU, 1995

• A Future for Youth Justice Services , Association of County Councils, 1995

• Interagency Assessment of Need in Child Protection, (with Axford, N. and Morpeth, L), DSRU, 1998

• Projecting Juvenile Custody Requirements, (with Hagell, A.), Policy Research Bureau, 1999

• Funding What Works: Exploring the Role of Research on Effective Programs and Practices in Government Decision-Making (with Bruner, C., Greenberg, M., Guy, C., Little, M., Schorr, L. and Weiss, H.), Child and Family Policy Center, Iowa, 2002

• Children Supported and Unsupported in the Community (with Axford, N. and Morpeth, L), DSRU, 2003

• Refocusing Children’s Services towards Prevention: Lessons from the Literature (with Axford, N.), Department for Educatrion and Skills, 2004

• Review of Family Support Services (with McKeown, K. and Clarke, M.), Department of Health and Children, Ireland, 2004

• 'The problems of managing the family contacts of children in residential care', British Journal of Social Work, XX, 1990, pp. 591-610 (with Bullock, R., Hosie, K. and Millham, S.)

• 'Secure accommodation for very difficult adolescents: some recent research findings', Journal of Adolescence, XIII, 1990, pp. 205-215 (with Bullock, R., Hosie, K. and Millham, S.)

• 'The characteristics of young people in Youth Treatment Centres: A study based on leavers from St. Charles and Glenthorne between 1982 and 1985', The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry, Vol. I, 1990, pp. 329-350 (with Bullock, R., Hosie, K. and Millham, S.)

• 'The research background to the law on parental access to children in care', The Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, No. 2, 1991, pp. 85-93 (with Bullock, R., Hosie, K. and Millham, S.)

• 'Legislating for parental access to children in care', Family and Conciliation Courts Review, XXIX, No. 4, pp. 375-384, 1991 (with Bullock, R.)

• 'Predicting the rate of children on the child protection registers', Adoption and Fostering, 16, No. 1, pp. 5-6, 1992 (with Gibbons, J)

• 'Predicting the rate of children on the child protection register', Research, Policy and Planning, X, 1993, pp. 15-18 (with Gibbons, J.)

• 'Children's return from state care to school', Oxford Review of Education, XX, 1993, pp. 307-316 (with Bullock, R. and Millham, S.)

• 'Assessing the quality of life for children in local authority care or accommodation', Journal of Adolescence, XVII, 1994, pp. 29-40 (with Bullock, R. and Millham, S.)

• 'Il ritorno a casa', Il Bambino in Comiuto, (Rome), 3, 1994, pp. 83-92 (with Bullock, R. and Millham, S.)

• 'The care careers of long-stay children: The contribution of new theoretical approaches', Child and Youth Services Review, 17, 1995, pp. 661-675 (with Bullock, R. and Leitch, H.)

• 'Child Protection: messages from research', Representing Children, 8 1995, pp. 20-26

• 'Whispers in the library: a response to Liz Trinder's article on the state of social work research', Child and Family Social Work, III, 1998, pp. 49-56

• ‘Il processo di riunificazione familiare nell’esperienza della Dartington Social Research Unit’, translated by Canali, C. and Colombo, D.), Politiche Sociali, iv, 1998, pp. 80-94

• ‘New research on residential care’, Children and Society, XIII, 1999, pp. 61-66

• ‘Prevention and early intervention with children in need: defintions, principles and examples of good practice’, Children and Society, XII, 1999, pp. 304-16

• ‘The interface between social and health services for children and adolescent persons’, Current Opinion in Psychiatry, XII, 1999, pp. 421-4

• ‘How to Develop Needs-Led, Evidence-Based Services’, Managing Community Care, 10, 3, 2002, pp. 28-32 (with Bullock, R., Madge, J. and Arruabarrena, I.)

• ‘Children’s services in the UK 1997-2003: problems, developments and challenges’, Children and Society, XVII, 2003, pp. 205-14 (with Axford, N. and Morpeth, L.)

• ‘Predicting the Likelihood of Family Re-unification in the Foster Care System’, Diskurs, 2, 2003, pp. 26-33 (with Bullock, R., Axford, N. and Morpeth, L.)

• ‘ISSP: an experiment in multi-systems responses to persistent young offenders known to social services’, British Journal of Criminology, XLIV, 2004, pp. 225-240 (with Kogan, J., Bullock, R. and van der Laan, P.)

• ‘Research review: risk and protection in the context of services for children in need’, Child and Family Social Work, IX, 2004, pp. 105-117 (with Axford, N. and Morpeth, L.)

• ‘Evaluating children’s services: recent conceptual and methodological developments’, British Journal of Social Work, XXXV, 2005, pp. 73-88 (with Axford, N., Morpeth, L. and Weyts, A.)

• The impact of residential placement on child development: research and policy implications. International Journal of Social Welfare XIV, 2005, pp. 200-209 (with Kohm, A and Thompson, R.)

• Time for a change: a review of Fostering Now and other programmes of research on children in need. British Journal for Adaption and Fostering, XXIX, 2005, pp. 9 - 22

• Enhancing service evaluability: lessons from a programme for disaffected young people. Children & Society XX, 2006, 287-298 (with Axford, N and Berry, V.)

• Refocusing children’s services towards prevention: lessons from the literature. Children & Society, XX, 2006 pp. 299-312. (with Axford, N)

• Developing a common language in children's services through research-based, inter-disciplinary training. Social Work Education XXV, 2006, pp. 161-176. (with Axford, N., Berry, V., & Morpeth, L.)

• Why another journal? Journal of Children's Services 1, 1, 2006, pp. 2-4. (with Axford, N)

• Interview with Lord Laming - Reflections on the furture of children's services in England and Wales. Journal of Children's Services 1, 1, 2006, pp. 58-63. (with Hobbs, T. and Kaoukji, D)

• Building Bridges: what can research contribute? Journal of Children's Services 1, 2, 2006, pp. 2-3. (with Axford, N)

• Interview with Tom Jeffery - Meeting the challenges in implementing Every Child Matters: the view from the Director-General. Journal of Children's Services 1, 2, 2006, pp. 61-68. (Hobbs, T. and Kaoukji, D)

• The place of proven models. Journal of Children's Services 1, 3, 2006, pp. 3-5. (with Axford, N)

• Interview with John Coughlan - From policy to practice: translating the Children Act 2004 reforms on the ground - a view from a Director of Children's Services. Journal of Children's Services 1, 3, 2006, pp. 63-72. (with Kaoukji, D)

• To innovate, or not to innovate? Journal of Children's Services 1, 4, 2006, pp. 2-3. (with Axford, N)

• Interview with Tim Byles - Transforming outcomes for young people: a chief executive's view. Journal of Children's Services 1, 4, 2006, pp. 70-78. (with Kaoukji, D)

• Taking children's service out of the electoral cycle. Journal of Children's Services 2, 1, 2007, pp. 2-3. (with Axford, N)

• Interview with Sylda Langford - People, relationships and power struggles: the view from the Director-General of the Irish Office of the Minister for Children. Journal of Children's Services 2, 1, 2007, pp. 67-75. (with Kaoukji, D)

• A tale of one programme and two evaluations. Journal of Children's Services 2, 2, 2007, pp. 2-3. (with Axford, N)

• Improving outcomes for children in the island of Ireland: the role of philanthropic investment. Journal of Children's Services 2, 2, 2007, pp. 60-67 (with Abunimah, A)

• BV159 RIP. Journal of Children's Services 2, 3, 2007, pp. 2-3. (with Axford, N)

• Interview with Katherine Zappone - Freedom and prevention: developing effective children's services in Tallaght, Ireland. Journal of Children's Services 2, 3, 2007, pp. 64-73.

• The school readiness of children living in a disadvantaged area in Ireland. Journal of Early Childhood Research 6, 2, 2008, pp. 119-144 (with Kiernan, G., Axford, N., Murphy, C., Greene, S. and Gormley, M)

• 'Children in care: the problems of maintaining family links', Adoption and Fostering, IX, 1985, pp. 12-16 (with Millham, S., Bullock, R. and Hosie, K.)

• 'Absent but not forgotten', Community Care, No. 608, April, 1986, pp. 14-15 (with Millham, S., Bullock, R. and Hosie, K.)

• 'Strategies emerge and policies drift: the evaluation of outcomes in social work', Insight, II, 15, 1987, pp. 19-21 (with Millham, S., Bullock, R. and Hosie, K.)

• 'Coming to terms with failure', Insight, IV, 33, 1989, pp. 26-28 (with Millham, S., Bullock, R. and Hosie, K.)

• 'The effects of treatment in security for very difficult adolescents', The Magistrate, Vol. 46, No. 11, 1990, pp. 209-227

• 'Young offenders, grave crimes, and Section 53', The Magistrate, Vol. 47, No. 7, pp. 143-150, 1991 (with Bullock, R. and Millham, S.)

• 'Predicting the rate of children on child protection registers', Adoption and Fostering, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 5-6, 1992 (with Gibbons, J.)

• 'Extremely difficult and disturbed young people: research into services', Young Minds, No. 11, July, 1992

• 'Making decisions about children looked after by social services', The Magistrate, 49, 1993, pp. 107-123 (with Mount, K.)

• 'Persistent young offenders: what can be done?’, The Magistrate, June, 1994, pp. 93-95

• 'Young offenders: what can be done?’, Northern Ireland Juvenile Courts Association, No. 2, 1994, pp. 8-13 (with Millham, S.)

• 'Characteristics and outcomes of young people convicted of grave crimes', Chronicle of the International Association of Juvenile and Family Court Magistrates, 3, 1994, pp. 13-20

• 'The care careers of young people in Youth Treatment Centres', Social Services Research, No. 2, 1994, pp. 28-33 (with Bullock, R. and Millham, S.)

• 'Outcomes for Children in Care', Family Law Bar Association Lectures given at Cumberland Lodge, 1994, pp. 1-19 (with Millham, S.)

• 'The work of the Dartington Social Research Unit', Resource Network for Adolescents, 7, December, 1994, pp. 1-2

• 'Linking assessments to service planning', Children Act News, 18, February, 1995, pp. 4-5

• 'Child protection and family support: finding a balance', Family Matters, 40, 1995

• 'Family circle', Community Care, 22 June, 1995, pp. 18-19 (with Davies, C.)

• 'The balance of power: Working for protection with children and families', Community Care, 27 July, 1995 (with Bullock, R. and Taylor, K.)

• 'Decline and rise: new directions in residential care', Community Care, 14 Sept, 1995 (with Kelly, S. and Jones, A.)

• 'Rights and needs in child protection', Childright, Autumn, 1995 (with Bullock, R.)

• 'Children in need: progress so far and pointers to the future of family support', Supporting Children: A Conference Report on Child Protection, Support and Care, Association of Metropolitan Authorities, 1995, pp. 18-23

• 'Child abuse and child protection: recent research findings and their implications', Research on Social Programmes for Children, Youth and Families, The International Initiative, Oslo, 1995 (with Davies, C.)

• 'Child Protection', Young Minds, 24 January, 1996, pp. 17-19 (with Bullock, R.)

• ‘How to develop needs-led, evidence-based services’, MCC-Building Knowledge for Integrated Care, X, 2002, pp.28-32 (with Bullock, R., Madge, J. and Arruabarrena, I.)

contributions to government publications

• 'The care careers of young people in youth treatment centres' in Department of Health Yearbook of Research and Development, HMSO, 1989, pp. 44-45 (with Millham, S., Bullock, R. and Hosie, K)

• 'The dissemination of research findings in social work' in Department of Health Yearbook of Research and Development, HMSO, 1990, pp. 61-63 (with Millham, S., Bullock, R. and Hosie, K)

unpublished research reports

• Delinquents in care , 1985 (with Millham, S., Bullock, R. and Hosie, K.)

• The education of children in care , 1985 (with Millham, S., Bullock, R., Hosie, K. and Berridge, D.)

• Place of Safety Orders: Evidence to the DHSS Child Care Law Review Committee , 1985 (with Millham, S., Bullock, R., Hosie, K. and Cleaver, H.)

• The characteristics of young people in Youth Treatment Centres , 1988 (with Millham, S., Bullock, R. and Hosie, K.)

• The problems of maintaining links between children in care and their families - Developmental phase , 1988 (with Millham, S., Bullock, R. and Hosie, K.)

• Personal social services for adolescents in Wirral , 1988 (with Millham, S., Bullock, R. and Hosie, K.)

• Alternative care careers: The experience of very difficult adolescents outside Youth Treatment Centre provision , 1989 (with Millham, S., Bullock, R. and Hosie, K.)

• The experiences of careers of young people leaving the Youth Treatment Centre , 1989 (with Millham, S., Bullock, R. and Hosie, K.)

• The experience of YTC look-alikes sheltered in other secure settings , 1991 (with Millham, S. and Bullock, R.)

• The part played by career, individual circumstance and treatment interventions for leavers from the Youth Treatment Centres , 1994 (with Bullock, R. and Millham, S.)

• Significant Harm: A Discussion Paper , 1998 (with Ryan, M.)

• Children in Need: A Comparison pre- and post the Implementation of the 1989 Children Act , 1998 (with Bullock, R.)