... thinking, ‘self‐organising criticality’, could be at work in generating children in need in England as defined by the Children Act 1989. The article is based on a secondary analysis of data on the weekly costs of children in need derived from the Children in Need Census 2005. Data were provided...

...Judy Renshaw Resettlement programmes provide support for young offenders during their custodial sentence and for approximately nine months after release. This article describes how the costs and benefits of providing an effective service of this kind were estimated based on the ‘RESET’ programme...

...Jennifer Beecham This article identifies the broad reasons why costs in children's care services might vary, illustrating them with examples from research literature relating to England. An intentionally broad use of ‘costs’ is employed. The literature has been neither systematically nor...