Home

Footer

DeepDyve Logo
FacebookTwitter

Features

  • Search and discover articles on DeepDyve, PubMed, and Google Scholar
  • Read the full-text of open access and premium content
  • Organize articles with folders and bookmarks
  • Collaborate on and share articles and folders

Info

  • Pricing
  • Enterprise Plans
  • Browse Journals & Topics
  • About DeepDyve

Help

  • Help
  • Publishers
  • Contact Us

Popular Topics

  • COVID-19
  • Climate Change
  • Biopharmaceuticals
Terms |
Privacy |
Security |
Help |
Enterprise Plans |
Contact Us

Select data courtesy of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

© 2023 DeepDyve, Inc. All rights reserved.

Journal of Children's Services

Subject:
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Publisher:
Emerald Group Publishing Limited —
Emerald Publishing
ISSN:
1746-6660
Scimago Journal Rank:
23

2023

Volume 18
Issue 2 (Jun)Issue 1 (Mar)

2022

Volume 17
Issue 4 (Dec)Issue 3 (Aug)Issue 2 (Jun)Issue 1 (Mar)

2021

Volume 16
Issue 4 (Nov)Issue 3 (Sep)Issue 2 (Jul)Issue 1 (Feb)

2020

Volume 15
Issue 4 (Dec)Issue 3 (Oct)Issue 2 (Jul)Issue 1 (Mar)

2019

Volume 14
Issue 4 (Nov)Issue 3 (Oct)Issue 2 (Jul)Issue 1 (May)

2018

Volume 13
Issue 3/4 (Nov)Issue 2 (Oct)Issue 1 (Jun)

2017

Volume 12
Issue 4 (Dec)Issue 2-3 (Sep)Issue 1 (Mar)

2016

Volume 11
Issue 4 (Dec)Issue 3 (Sep)Issue 2 (Jun)Issue 1 (Mar)

2015

Volume 10
Issue 4 (Dec)Issue 3 (Sep)Issue 2 (Jun)Issue 1 (Mar)

2014

Volume 9
Issue 4 (Dec)Issue 3 (Sep)Issue 2 (Jun)Issue 1 (Mar)

2013

Volume 8
Issue 4 (Nov)Issue 3 (Sep)Issue 2 (Jun)Issue 1 (Mar)

2012

Volume 7
Issue 4 (Nov)Issue 3 (Sep)Issue 2 (Jun)Issue 1 (Mar)

2011

Volume 6
Issue 4 (Dec)Issue 3 (Sep)Issue 2 (Jun)Issue 1 (Mar)

2010

Volume 5
Issue 4 (Dec)Issue 3 (Sep)Issue 2 (Jun)Issue 1 (Mar)
Volume 4
Issue 4 (Jan)

2009

Volume 4
Issue 4 (Dec)Issue 3 (Nov)Issue 2 (Oct)Issue 1 (Sep)

2008

Volume 3
Issue 4 (Jul)Issue 3 (May)Issue 2 (Sep)Issue 1 (Sep)

2007

Volume 2
Issue 4 (Dec)Issue 3 (Nov)Issue 2 (Aug)Issue 1 (Jun)

2006

Volume 1
Issue 4 (Dec)Issue 3 (Nov)Issue 2 (Oct)Issue 1 (Apr)
journal article
LitStream Collection
The challenge of the Children Act 1989 balancing support, care and protection for children

Hughes, Rupert; Rose, Wendy

2010 Journal of Children's Services

doi: 10.5042/jcs.2010.0545

journal article
LitStream Collection
The challenge of the Children Act 1989: balancing support, care and protection for children

Hughes, Rupert ; Rose, Wendy

2010 Journal of Children's Services

doi: 10.5042/jcs.2010.0545

journal article
LitStream Collection
Children's experience of the Children Act 1989

Morgan, Roger

2010 Journal of Children's Services

doi: 10.5042/jcs.2010.0546

This article sets out the views and experience of children and young people on selected major aspects of their lives which are governed by provisions in the Children Act 1989. It draws on extensive statutory consultations with children in care, receiving children's social care services, or otherwise living away from home, carried out over the past eight years by the Children's Rights Director for England. Two key themes from children are featured in particular: the extent to which the intentions of the Act are actually experienced by children in practice, and the extent to which delivery of the intentions of the Act is individualised according to each child's needs, wishes and feelings. Children's views, experiences and, in some cases, proposals for the future are explored in relation to ascertaining and taking into account children's wishes and concerns in decision-making, selection of placements, support to care leavers, family contact, care planning and reviews, and complaints and representations. The issues of private fostering and the intentions and development of the role of the Independent Reviewing Officer are discussed from the child's perspective and in the light of the subsequent Children and Young Persons Act 2008.
journal article
LitStream Collection
Children's experience of the Children Act 1989

Roger Morgan

2010 Journal of Children's Services

doi: 10.5042/jcs.2010.0546

This article sets out the views and experience of children and young people on selected major aspects of their lives which are governed by provisions in the Children Act 1989. It draws on extensive statutory consultations with children in care, receiving children's social care services, or otherwise living away from home, carried out over the past eight years by the Children's Rights Director for England. Two key themes from children are featured in particular: the extent to which the intentions of the Act are actually experienced by children in practice, and the extent to which delivery of the intentions of the Act is individualised according to each child's needs, wishes and feelings. Children's views, experiences and, in some cases, proposals for the future are explored in relation to ascertaining and taking into account children's wishes and concerns in decision‐making, selection of placements, support to care leavers, family contact, care planning and reviews, and complaints and representations. The issues of private fostering and the intentions and development of the role of the Independent Reviewing Officer are discussed from the child's perspective and in the light of the subsequent Children and Young Persons Act 2008.
journal article
LitStream Collection
Promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children: a bridge too far?

Tunstill, Jane ; Aldgate, Jane ; Thoburn, June

2010 Journal of Children's Services

doi: 10.5042/jcs.2010.0547

This article describes the contrast between the clearly expressed and optimistic intentions of section 17 of the Children Act 1989, namely to produce a genuine service continuum that will promote and safeguard the welfare of children, and the reality of the post-1989 implementation process. It shows how, over decades, perennial challenges have consistently skewed the balance between proactive family support services and reactive crisis-driven responses in favour of the latter. Drawing on government-commissioned evaluations, including two on out-of-home care and family centres respectively, the authors conclude that the Act has failed to change this balance for the better. Primary factors in this include inadequate funding and the risk-averse responses of policy-makers and politicians.
journal article
LitStream Collection
Promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children: a bridge too far?

Jane Tunstill; Jane Aldgate; June Thoburn

2010 Journal of Children's Services

doi: 10.5042/jcs.2010.0547

This article describes the contrast between the clearly expressed and optimistic intentions of section 17 of the Children Act 1989, namely to produce a genuine service continuum that will promote and safeguard the welfare of children, and the reality of the post‐1989 implementation process. It shows how, over decades, perennial challenges have consistently skewed the balance between proactive family support services and reactive crisis‐driven responses in favour of the latter. Drawing on government‐commissioned evaluations, including two on out‐of‐home care and family centres respectively, the authors conclude that the Act has failed to change this balance for the better. Primary factors in this include inadequate funding and the risk‐averse responses of policy‐makers and politicians.
journal article
LitStream Collection
Family centres: protection and promotion at the heart of the Children Act 1989

Warren-Adamson, Chris ; Lightburn, Anita

2010 Journal of Children's Services

doi: 10.5042/jcs.2010.0548

This article reflects on the significance of family centres in the UK as a mirror of new possibilities for child welfare in the years following the Children Act 1989. The Act empowered local authorities in England and Wales to provide family centres as part of ‘family support practice’. The article reveals a rich vein of family-centred, centre-based activity internationally and shows practice combining intervention from the sophisticated to the very informal. The authors focus on so-called ‘integrated centres’ as complex systems of care with wide implications for practice and outcome evaluation in an ‘evidence-based’ context.
journal article
LitStream Collection
Family centres: protection and promotion at the heart of the Children Act 1989

Chris Warren‐Adamson; Anita Lightburn

2010 Journal of Children's Services

doi: 10.5042/jcs.2010.0548

This article reflects on the significance of family centres in the UK as a mirror of new possibilities for child welfare in the years following the Children Act 1989. The Act empowered local authorities in England and Wales to provide family centres as part of ‘family support practice’. The article reveals a rich vein of family‐centred, centre‐based activity internationally and shows practice combining intervention from the sophisticated to the very informal. The authors focus on so‐called ‘integrated centres’ as complex systems of care with wide implications for practice and outcome evaluation in an ‘evidence‐based’ context.
journal article
LitStream Collection
Rearing a toothless tiger? From area child protection committee to local safeguarding children board

Jan Horwath

2010 Journal of Children's Services

doi: 10.5042/jcs.2010.0549

This article uses a model describing different levels of collaboration to chart the development of area child protection committees (ACPCs) and their successors, local safeguarding children boards (LSCBs). It argues that concerns about these partnerships lacking ‘teeth’ have resulted in a broadening of remit and increased regulation and statutory guidance. Using criteria from the literature for effective multidisciplinary strategic partnerships, consideration is given to specific issues that members of LSCBs encounter that limit their powers and influence. The final section of the article questions whether national regulation and guidance is sufficient to give LSCBs ‘teeth’ and ensure effective local collaborative activity. The author concludes that the strength and influence of the LSCB is as dependent on the quality of leadership provided by the members of the LSCB as it is on regulation and guidance.
journal article
LitStream Collection
Rearing a toothless tiger? From area child protection committee to local safeguarding children board

Horwath, Jan

2010 Journal of Children's Services

doi: 10.5042/jcs.2010.0549

This article uses a model describing different levels of collaboration to chart the development of area child protection committees (ACPCs) and their successors, local safeguarding children boards (LSCBs). It argues that concerns about these partnerships lacking ‘teeth’ have resulted in a broadening of remit and increased regulation and statutory guidance. Using criteria from the literature for effective multidisciplinary strategic partnerships, consideration is given to specific issues that members of LSCBs encounter that limit their powers and influence. The final section of the article questions whether national regulation and guidance is sufficient to give LSCBs ‘teeth’ and ensure effective local collaborative activity. The author concludes that the strength and influence of the LSCB is as dependent on the quality of leadership provided by the members of the LSCB as it is on regulation and guidance.
journal article
LitStream Collection
Reconnecting care and education: from the Children Act 1989 to Care Matters

Sonia Jackson

2010 Journal of Children's Services

doi: 10.5042/jcs.2010.0550

The Children Act 1989 ended a period of four decades during which the education of children and young people in care was almost entirely neglected. However, it was another 20 years before education took its rightful place at the centre of provision for the care of children away from home. This article considers the contribution made to this process by the Act and its accompanying Guidance, what progress has been made and what were the obstacles, past and continuing, that have made it so difficult to narrow the gap in attainment between looked‐after children and others.
journal article
LitStream Collection
Reconnecting care and education: from the Children Act 1989 to Care Matters

Jackson, Sonia

2010 Journal of Children's Services

doi: 10.5042/jcs.2010.0550

The Children Act 1989 ended a period of four decades during which the education of children and young people in care was almost entirely neglected. However, it was another 20 years before education took its rightful place at the centre of provision for the care of children away from home. This article considers the contribution made to this process by the Act and its accompanying Guidance, what progress has been made and what were the obstacles, past and continuing, that have made it so difficult to narrow the gap in attainment between looked-after children and others.
journal article
LitStream Collection
Disabled children and the Children Act 1989

Peter Smith

2010 Journal of Children's Services

doi: 10.5042/jcs.2010.0551

This article examines the impact on disabled children and their families of the Children Act 1989 from the author's perspective of close involvement in this area of policy from 1992 to 2005. It argues that the inclusion of disabled children explicitly for the first time in children's legislation marked a necessary step in seeing disabled children as children first. Two main areas of concern about the effectiveness of the Act's implementation are highlighted. First, provisions in the Act for disabled children living away from home in health and education establishments have been widely ignored and are now seen as inadequate. Second is whether the provisions regarding short breaks (respite care) have been effective in providing the sort of support that families need at the required levels. The article suggests that passing legislation may be insufficient in itself to have much impact on the lives of disabled children.
journal article
LitStream Collection
Disabled children and the Children Act 1989

Smith, Peter M

2010 Journal of Children's Services

doi: 10.5042/jcs.2010.0551

This article examines the impact on disabled children and their families of the Children Act 1989 from the author's perspective of close involvement in this area of policy from 1992 to 2005. It argues that the inclusion of disabled children explicitly for the first time in children's legislation marked a necessary step in seeing disabled children as children first. Two main areas of concern about the effectiveness of the Act's implementation are highlighted. First, provisions in the Act for disabled children living away from home in health and education establishments have been widely ignored and are now seen as inadequate. Second is whether the provisions regarding short breaks (respite care) have been effective in providing the sort of support that families need at the required levels. The article suggests that passing legislation may be insufficient in itself to have much impact on the lives of disabled children.
journal article
LitStream Collection
From public health to Ofsted: the impact of the Children Act 1989 on early years services

Denise Hevey

2010 Journal of Children's Services

doi: 10.5042/jcs.2010.0552

Early years policy and services have been subjected to substantial and rapid reform over the past 20 years. This article provides a brief overview of legislative and policy changes over this period, with a particular focus on regulation and workforce issues, and traces the enduring influence of the Children Act 1989 to the present. It identifies a paradigm shift in early years services from a world view based on public health and care and on devolution of responsibility, to one in which promoting children's learning and development is core and centralised regulation and national standards are seen as essential. This is reflected in changed responsibilities at government department and regulatory body level. Despite these major changes, the article concludes that the key principles of the Act ‐ in terms of children's rights, parents' responsibilities, listening to children and inter‐agency co‐operation ‐ are still apparent.
journal article
LitStream Collection
From public health to Ofsted: the impact of the Children Act 1989 on early years services

Hevey, Denise

2010 Journal of Children's Services

doi: 10.5042/jcs.2010.0552

Early years policy and services have been subjected to substantial and rapid reform over the past 20 years. This article provides a brief overview of legislative and policy changes over this period, with a particular focus on regulation and workforce issues, and traces the enduring influence of the Children Act 1989 to the present. It identifies a paradigm shift in early years services from a world view based on public health and care and on devolution of responsibility, to one in which promoting children's learning and development is core and centralised regulation and national standards are seen as essential. This is reflected in changed responsibilities at government department and regulatory body level. Despite these major changes, the article concludes that the key principles of the Act - in terms of children's rights, parents' responsibilities, listening to children and inter-agency co-operation - are still apparent.
journal article
LitStream Collection
Services are not enough: child well-being in a very unequal society

Rowlands, John

2010 Journal of Children's Services

doi: 10.5042/jcs.2010.0553

This article offers a resumé of, and reflection on, policy ideas that have emerged since the implementation of the Children Act 1989 concerning child need, vulnerability and universalism. It acknowledges the significance of working to beneficial child outcomes as both a cement to pull services into coherence and as a measure of how well our children are doing. However, children in the UK are not doing well when compared with other affluent societies. The article invites consideration of whether we are asking too much of services in the face of enduring inequality in our society.
journal article
LitStream Collection
Services are not enough: child well‐being in a very unequal society

John Rowlands

2010 Journal of Children's Services

doi: 10.5042/jcs.2010.0553

This article offers a resumé of, and reflection on, policy ideas that have emerged since the implementation of the Children Act 1989 concerning child need, vulnerability and universalism. It acknowledges the significance of working to beneficial child outcomes as both a cement to pull services into coherence and as a measure of how well our children are doing. However, children in the UK are not doing well when compared with other affluent societies. The article invites consideration of whether we are asking too much of services in the face of enduring inequality in our society.
Browse All Journals

Related Journals:

Journal of Autism and Developmental DisordersEducational PsychologistEducational Psychology ReviewAutismMonographs of the Society for Research in Child DevelopmentHuman DevelopmentChildhoodEducational Psychology in PracticeCanadian Journal of School PsychologyAdultspan Journal