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Volume 21,
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6 March 2026
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Journal of Children's Services encourages the international development of research-based, outcome-focused services to better safeguard and promote the well-being of children and their families locally, nationally and internationally.

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Designing a self-directed family support intervention for parents/caregivers to aid conversation about parental substance use with children and young people
Children of online grooming offenders: secondary harms, lived impacts and service implications
Delayed discharges from CAMHS tier 4 mental health setting: a qualitative study of social care professionals’ perspectives
Exploring the impact of “the knock” and its aftermath on non-offending partners of sex offenders and adequacy of available support
Navigating vulnerability: LGBTQ+ students’ experiences of child sexual abuse in Thai schools
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September 22 2025
Optimal collaboration in services for adolescents with neurodevelopmental disorders: professionals’ perspectives
Jaanet Salminen, Miia Laasanen et al.
August 01 2025
Challenges in the transition of care leavers to adulthood in Spain: perception of experts
Ángela Martín-Gutiérrez, Verónica Sevillano-Monje et al.
September 16 2024
Innovative local authority public health interventions to support the mental health of children and young people
Liam Spencer, Sam Redgate et al.
March 06 2024
Secure futures? A mixed methods study on opportunities for helping young people referred to secure children’s homes for welfare reasons
Annie Williams, Hannah Bayfield et al.
December 15 2023
Adolescents’ perspectives on SSWs’ counselling practice in Swedish elementary schools: “plumb the depths and navigate to shore”
Maria Kjellgren, Sara Lilliehorn et al.

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