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Key journals

Adoption and Fostering (British Association for Adoption and Fostering)
Adoption & Fostering is a quarterly peer reviewed journal which has been at the cutting edge of debate on childcare issues for over 50 years.
British Journal of Social Work (BASW)
Published for the British Association of Social Workers, this is the leading academic social work journal in the UK. It covers every aspect of social work, with papers reporting research, discussing practice, and examining principles and theories.
Child Abuse and Neglect
Child Abuse & Neglect is an international and interdisciplinary journal publishing articles on child welfare, health, humanitarian aid, justice, mental health, public health and social service systems.
Child and Family Social Work
Child & Family Social Work provides a forum where researchers, practitioners, policy-makers and managers in the field exchange knowledge, increase understanding and develop notions of good practice.
Child Development
Child Development journal provides the latest research for researchers and theoreticians, child psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, psychiatric social workers, specialists in early childhood education, educational psychologists, special education teachers, and other researchers.
Children and Society (National Children's Bureau)
Children & Society is an international journal publishing high quality research that advances the contribution of interdisciplinary approaches and understandings of the lives of children and young people across the globe.
Children and Youth Services Review
Children and Youth Services Review is an international, multidisciplinary journal that focuses on disadvantaged or otherwise vulnerable children, young people, families and the systems designed to support them.
Critical and Radical Social Work
Journal analysis and responds to issues, such as the impact of global neoliberalism on social welfare; austerity and social work; social work and social movements; social work, inequality and oppression

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Critical Social Policy
Critical Social Policy provides an international forum for advocacy, analysis and debate on social policy issues from socialist, feminist, anti-racist and radical perspectives.
Housing Studies
Publishes research on housing and related issues, covering social and economic policy, housing development, sustainability and demographic and social trends.
Journal of Family Therapy (Association for Family Therapy)
Journal of Family Therapy seeks to advance the understanding of human systems such as couples, families, professional networks and wider groups, and how to most effectively intervene in such systems. Articles are written in language that is accessible to family therapists and other disciplines.
Journal of Interpersonal Violence
Journal of Interpersonal Violence is devoted to the study and treatment of victims and perpetrators of interpersonal violence, addressing the causes, effects, treatment, and prevention of all types of violence.
Journal of Practice Teaching & Learning
The Journal covers all aspects of practice teaching ('field education') in workplace settings.
Formerly The Journal of Practice Teaching in Health and Social Work
Journal of Social Work Practice (Group for the Advancement of Psychodynamics and Psychotherapy in Social Work)
Journal of Social Work Practice publishes papers based on empirical research, theory and practice experience from the UK and around the world, all of which are anonymously reviewed by two peer reviewers.
Practice: social work in action (BASW)
Practice provides a forum for the publication of research & knowledge from practice & the experiences of people using services.
Social Work Education
Social Work Education publishes articles of a critical and reflective nature concerned with the theory and practice of social care and social work education at all levels.

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