My research and writing on child protection featured here:
Deprivation and child protection involvement
How child protection’s ‘investigative turn’ impacts on poor and deprived communities Levels of contact with children's services in a class ...
More parents accused of child abuse than ever before
Parents in English-speaking countries are now increasingly likely to be accused of abusing their children. This mainly affects large proportions ...
Children’s involvement in the English child protection system before age of 5
Academic paper: Referrals and Child Protection in England: One in Five Children Referred to Children’s Services and One in Nineteen ...
Western Australia
Analysis ofover 20 years of data on Western Australia's Child Protection system includes the following three papers ...
Investigative Turn
Internationally in many English speaking countries there are growing numbers of child protection investigations. In England there has been a ...
Bruised Babies
How policies misinterpret research and exaggerate risk This review of the 91 English children’s services departments with specific policies on ...