A collection of essays offering eminently practical guidance on how to design randomized controlled trials so that they illuminate why programs work and in what conditions should begin to sway UK critics.
The dangers of the drug Ritalin, the dubious late-career behavior of one the UK’s best known public health experts and the failings of former US president Richard Nixon come under scrutiny in a new book about cancer by environmental health expert Devra Lee Davis.
A new collection of UK essays should give momentum to the trend in favor of population-wide strategies for improving the health and well-being of all children, but the absence of practical examples means it doesn't quite clinch the argument.
A new collection of research messages takes stock of what can be done to meet the needs of the few very difficult children who commit acts of serious violence.
As with every other branch of care and education, there is a fine balance to be struck between the cost, the ratio of teachers to pupils – and the resulting quality of the service.
The image is idealized, sepia and fading. A father faces the camera. Two of his children sit to his right, one to the left. The table is set for Christmas.
Alexander Pope was musing about the temperament of the wise critic when he famously wrote in 1711 that “To err is Human; to Forgive, Divine”, but social psychologists are finding that a forgiving nature has transformative powers even in the modern home.
Millions being spent on UK children and families initiatives, a new government press release almost every day – but where’s the investment in research and where’s the evaluation evidence to show that any of it is working?
Have researchers at the University of Otago in New Zealand hammered the last nail in the coffin of the idea that single parenting is ever at the root of children’s problems?
An instructive, painstaking examination of the realities of joined-up working inside UK children’s services leaves unanswered the big question of whether a multi-agency approach really does enhance outcomes for disadvantaged children.
A new study by a member of the UK Dartington Social Research Unit team tries to bring light to the argument about how to improve the well-being of all Europe's children – by offering a definition of well-being that synthesizes insights into needs, rights, poverty and social exclusion.
A new collection of essays by two researchers who were at the heart of the UK’s first outcome-driven child care assessment program shows how far, how fast – and otherwise – the theory and practice of designing children’s services have developed during the past decade.
Columbia University researchers consider why a society acutely concerned about medical ethics continues to tolerate some responses to the developmental needs of children when there is no evidence that they work.
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