Family Matters article Sep 1995
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Family Matters article Sep 1995
Mandatory reporting of abuse as perceived by young people and youth sector workers
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Family Matters article Mar 1996
Joint adoption by same sex spouses in Canada
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Family Matters article Jun 1996
Families, young people and health care
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Family Matters article Sep 2001
A history of child protection
This article gives an overview of the development of child protection and efforts to prevent child abuse and neglect, highlighting the cyclical nature of the evolution of child protection services and noting that many of the current approaches have been tried a number of times over the last 150 years and look likely to be re-applied in the next few decades.
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Family Matters article Jun 2001
A framework for responding to vulnerable children and their families
Continuing previous research (1999) at the Australian Institute of Family Studies on the outcomes of the UK 'Looking After Children' approach in out of home care in Victoria, the author discusses the value of the UK Children in Need assessment framework for Victorian Family Services.
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Family Matters article Jun 2001
School experiences of the children of lesbian and gay parents
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Family Matters article Jun 2001
The UK Sure Start Program
This article describes the background to the UK's Sure Start early intervention program, looks at what it offers and what it aims to achieve, then reviews the early experience of program implementation to draw out some initial lessons for policy makers who may be thinking of developing similar initiatives.
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Family Matters article Mar 2000
Opinion
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Short article Aug 2017
Practitioners on evidence: Cathie Valentine
Cathie Valentine discusses the need for collaboration between researchers and practitioners to help overcome complex problems affecting families.