In light of calls for reform in child protection systems in various countries, including the UK,
there has been a growing interest in involving parents who have lived experience of these …

This article, written with parents as co-authors, has two aims:(1) to provide a critical view of
the English child protection system based on parents' views and to locate these views within …

This report provides a review of international and national models of engagement, support
and advocacy for parents who have contact with child protection systems. How statutory …

Participatory practice is acknowledged as increasingly important in empowering families in
the decision-making process. Yet parental participation in child protection and welfare …

In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in understanding parental
participation in the processes that characterise statutory child protection intervention. In part …

This exploratory, small-scale research aimed to understand parents' and grandparents'
experiences and expectations of child protection investigations. Semi-structured, in-depth …

In this article, we focus on parents' opportunities for, and experiences of, participation in
child protection decision making in Queensland, Australia. Drawing on a qualitative analysis …

Promoting the participation of children and parents in child protection practice is one of the
most complex and sensitive areas of social work practice. Increasingly, child protection …

For many social workers, participatory practice may seem an unachievable goal, particularly
in the field of child protection. In this paper, we discuss a significant programme of change in …

This article describes the contested and underdeveloped backdrop to '“whole family”
approaches', whereby families with care and protection needs are caught in a conflicting set …