This video shows the rapidly increasing numbers of children separated from parents and living in care, adoption or special guardianship. It updates this community care article https://www.communitycare.co.uk/2017/02/09/the-governments-adoption-drive-isnt-doing-what-it-set-out-to-do/ showing that higher rates of children leaving care to adoption and special guardianship were associated with increasing trends in care – the figures presented here are in Adoption trends.

My more recent research showed how higher adoption rates were a postcode lottery and the twenty local authorities with the biggest increases in adoption decisions had a 96% increase in the number of children adopted or on placement orders in five years. Across these authorities all aspects of children’s services activity had increased more than in the other 50 local authorities with child protection investigations changing most. Postcode lottery in child protection and adoption 

The Social Development paradigm is discussed in this article about gatekeeping in Bulgaria but is equally relevant to countries with an Anglo-American child protection system
Bilson A. and Larkins C (2013) “Providing Alternatives to Infant Institutionalisation in Bulgaria: Can Gatekeeping Benefit from a Social Development Orientation?” Children and Youth Services Review  35 (9). pp. 1566­-1575 Download here
It is also briefly discussed in this web resource on the PFAN site https://www.pfan.uk/we-cant-afford-child-protection/

A summary of the research in the video can be found on the PFAN website at https://www.pfan.uk/reduce-harm/

My research on trends in Western Australia is at Western Australia and the source of the graph is Differential response which also found that introducing a “differential response” reduced child protection investigations over a 10 year period

For more details of this research see:
Bilson, A., Featherstone, B., Martin, K., (2017) How child protection’s ‘investigative turn’ impacts on poor and deprived communities. Family Law 47: 316-319 Prepublication version here

For more detailed information see my web resource with Taliah Drayak on the PFAN website https://www.pfan.uk/we-cant-afford-child-protection/