The Journal of Children’s Services (JCS) invites interested researchers to submit a Special Issue proposal. We are open to any topics that fit in JCS’s scope:

• Child and family research
• Comparative child welfare policy and practice
• Evidence-informed practice and evaluation of innovative services, using quantitative and/or qualitative methods
• Methodological issues and their application to practice
• Practitioner led enquiry
• Service user participation and engagement
• Dynamics of multi-agency and inter-disciplinary working to protect and promote the well-being of children and their families
• Social, political and economic analysis of childhood wellbeing
• Critical discussion of the conceptual frameworks that inform service provision
• Promotion of initiatives to forge stronger links between research, policy and practice.

How to submit

If you are interested in publishing a Special Issue in JCS, please contact the Commissioning Editor Aggie Topolska at atopolska@emerald.com to receive a special issue proposal form and a call for papers template.