About this journal

Child Care in Practice is a quarterly, peer-reviewed journal that provides an international forum for professionals working in all disciplines in the provision of children’s services, including social work, social care, health care, medicine, psychology, education, the police and probationary services, and solicitors and barristers working in the family law and youth justice sectors.

The strategic aims and objectives of the journal are:

• To develop the knowledge base of practitioners, managers and other professionals responsible for the delivery of professional child care services. The journal seeks to contribute to the achievement of quality services and the promotion of the highest standards.
• To achieve an equity of input from all disciplines working with children. The multi-disciplinary nature of the journal reflects that the key to many successful outcomes in the child care field lies in the close co-operation between different disciplines.
• To raise awareness of often-neglected issues such as marginalization of ethnic minorities and problems consequent upon poverty and disability.
• To keep abreast of and continue to influence local and international child care practice in response to emerging policy.
• To include the views of those who are in receipt of multi-disciplinary child care services.
• To welcome submissions on promising practice developments and the findings from new research to highlight the breadth of the work of the journal’s work.

The Child Care in Practice Group is a company limited by guarantee No 31209 and a charity recognised by the Inland Revenue Ref No XR12410.

Audience:

Includes but is not limited to: Social Workers, Psychologists, Lawyers, Psychiatrists, Nurses, Sociologists, Public Health Workers, Law Enforcement, Educators, and Paediatricians.

Peer Review Policy:

All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is double anonymized and submission is online via ScholarOne Manuscripts.

Disclaimer:

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Directors
Ms Anne Morrison (Chair) – Manager, Child Care Centre, Belfast Health & Social Services Trust, Northern Ireland, UK
Ms Patricia Nicholl (Treasurer) – Lecturer, University of Ulster Belfast, UK
Dr Carmel Devaney (Secretary) – Lecturer above the Bar, UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, NUI Galway, Republic of Ireland
Dr Clionagh Boyle – Head of Early Childhood, School of Education, Liverpool Hope University, UK
Ms Anne McGlade – Social Care Research Lead, Directorate of Social Care and Children, UK
Ms Frances Nicholson – Social Services Officer, Department of Health, Social Services & Public Safety, Northern Ireland, UK

Editorial Board members
Dr Eavan Brady – Assistant Professor in Social Work, Trinity College Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Dr Michele Capurso – Department of Philosophy, Human and Social Sciences and Education, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italy
Dr. Catherine Flynn – Deputy Head of Department, Department of Social Work, Monash University, Australia
Ms Catherine Maguire – Northern Ireland Social Care Council, UK
Professor Marinella Majorano – Associate Professor, Department of Human Science, University of Verona, Italy
Dr Mandi McDonald – Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work, UK
Dr Tracey Monson – Director of Services, Daughters of Charity Child and Family Services, Republic of Ireland
Dr Joe Mooney – Assistant Professor of Social Work, University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Dr Colman Noctor – Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, Midwifery &Health Sciences, University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Dr Claire O'Driscoll Lawrie – Senior Clinical Psychologist, St Patrick’s Mental Health Service, Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Mrs Lynne Peyton – Child Care Consultant, Dungannon, Northern Ireland, UK
Ms Sheina Rigg – Implementation Manager, Safeguarding Board for Northern Ireland, UK
Dr Emily Shaffer-Hudkins – Bay Area Early Steps Program Director, Assistant Professor, University of South Florida, USA
Dr Menka Tsantefski – Associate Professor, Social Work, Southern Cross University, Australia