The launch of the Troubled Families Programme in the wake of the 2011 riots conflated poor
and disadvantaged families with anti-social and criminal families. The programme aimed to …

There is an increase in calls across diverse issues for a “public health approach” however, it
is not clear whether there is any shared understanding in approach in its conceptualisation …

This paper critically examines the relationship between statutory family support and child
protection using the case study of Ireland. It builds on the work of Devaney and McGregor …

This paper takes the opportunity of the current child welfare system change in Ireland to
promote the value of learning from history to better understand the interface between family …

The aim of this article is to consider critically the relationship between professional and
public understandings of Family Support. It is based on research comprising baseline and …

Nurses are well positioned to contribute to child protection efforts but are underutilised. This
paper describes a critical discursive analysis of nursing responses to child neglect and …

All states grapple with the challenges of protecting children and ensuring their development.
For minority world states, whilst there is a longer history of established systems focused on …

The focus of this collection is the promise of public health approaches to child protection and
welfare systems development and delivery, and this chapter is a case study of what such an …

This chapter explores the potential of Family Support to respond to issues negatively
impacting on children's welfare, with specific attention paid to the parent–child relationship …

Background: We will describe here a translational social epidemiology protocol for
confirming a critical realist “Theory of Neighbourhood Context, Stress, Depression, and the …