Gender and the Child Protection Process

Journal Article Gender and the Child Protection Process Get access ELAINE FARMER, ELAINE FARMER Elaine Farmer is a lecturer at the Centre for Family Policy and Child Welfare in the School for Policy Studies at the University of Bristol. She has a background in statutory social services and since joining the University has conducted research and published on the reunification of separated children with their families, child protection, and residential and foster care. Her most recent study, with Sue Pollock, was in a Department of Health research programme on residential care, and will shortly be published by Wiley as Sexually Abused and Abusing Children in Substitute Care. Correspondence to Dr Elaine Farmer, Centre for Family Policy and Child Welfare, School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol, Block F, 8 Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 ITN, UK. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MORAG OWEN MORAG OWEN Morag Owen is a research fellow in the Centre for Social Policy and Social Work at the University of Sussex. Her research interests include single parent adoption, child protection, and the effectiveness of child-care plans for children on care orders. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Social Work, Volume 28, Issue 4, August 1998, Pages 545–564, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjsw.a011366 Published: 01 August 1998 Article history Accepted: 01 August 1997 Published: 01 August 1998