Children & Society

Children & Society 25th Anniversary Issue
To celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Children & Society, the editors have created a "virtual" issue which brings together a selection of papers that the editors consider among the most significant and influential. The papers highlight some of the changes in the content of the journal, as well as many of the continuities. The changes reflect the shifting social context and policy environment, including social reforms that were shaped in part by work published in Children & Society. The continuities reflect the journal's core goals: to offer high-quality scholarship on a wide range of childhood issues, with a strong focus on policies and services and an underlying commitment to promote the well-being of children and articulate their place in society.

To read the full editorial and articles from the Anniversary Issue, please click here.

Interested in submitting a Research Review?
Children & Society continues to encourage submissions of Research Reviews. For information, please click here.

Online Submissions
Authors are now able to submit their paper to Children & Society online using Scholar One Manuscripts. Please click on Submit an Article in the left hand menu for more information.

Children & SocietyPodcast
Please click on the journal banner to listen to the podcast interview between Lindsay O'Dell, editor of Children & Society, and Nigel Parton, author of the article The Munro Review of Child Protection: An Appraisal.

Ann Phoenix, Professor and Co-Director at the Thomas Coram Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London, seen here giving the inaugural 'NCB/Children & Society Lecture'. Professor Phoenix spoke on 'Contextualising policies for good childhoods: Complexity, difference and non-normative experiences'.

New Joint Book Review Editor Required. Click on the link for more information.

Read the cluster of articles on Youth Gangs in British Cities: research informs the policy response

To Read Children & Society's Aims & Scope, please click here

Coming Soon! 2013 Special Issue
Children and Value: Education in neo-liberal times
Guest Editors: Dympna Devine and Wendy Luttrell

Children & Society - 2014 Special Issue
Children & Society - 2015 Special Issue
Proposals are invited for the 2014 & 2015 Special Issues of Children & Society. Click on the relevant link for more information.

Recent Special Issues:
Special Issue: Researching the Lives of Disabled Children and Young People
Volume 26, Issue 3, May 2012
Guest Editor: Kirsten Stalker

Special Issue: Bullying: The Moral and Social Orders at Play
Volume 25, Issue 4, July 2011
Guest Editors: Susan Danby & Karin Osvaldsson