Why has the language of the child and of child protection become so hegemonic? What is
lost and gained by such language? Who is being protected, and from what, in a risk society …

The relationship between children's material circumstances and child abuse and neglect
raises a series of questions for policy, practice, and practitioners. Children and families in …

Contemporary approaches to child protection are dominated by individualized forensically
focused interventions that provide limited scope for more holistic preventative responses to …

The role that area deprivation, family poverty, and austerity policies play in the demand for
and supply of children's services has been a contested issue in England in recent years …

This article explores how the child protection system currently operates in England. It
analyses how policy and practice has developed, and articulates the need for an alternative …

Algorithmic tools are increasingly used in child protection decision-making. Fairness
considerations of algorithmic tools usually focus on statistical fairness, but there are broader …

Attempts to record, understand and respond to variations in child welfare and protection
reporting, service patterns and outcomes are international, numerous and longstanding …

Research internationally has identified large differences in rates of child safeguarding
interventions, recently characterized as child welfare inequalities, markers of social …

This article will consider Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) as a chaotic concept that
prioritises risk and obscures the material and social conditions of the lives of its objects. It …

Child welfare systems internationally exhibit very large inequalities in a variety of
dimensions of practice, for example, in rates of child protection plans or registrations and out …