Bob Lonne is a senior lecturer at the School of Social Work and Applied Human Sciences, University of Queensland, Australia.Nigel Parton is NSPCC Professor in Applied Childhood Studies in the Centre of Applied Childhood Studies at the University of Huddersfield, UK.Jane Thomson is Head of the School of Social Work and Community Welfare at James Cook University, Australia, and the North Queensland Director on the National Board of the Australian Association of Social Workers.Maria Harries is Associate Professor in the School of Social and Cultural Studies at the University of Western Australia, Australia.

• Section 1: Reforming Child Protection 1. Reforming Child Protection: Principles and Themes of Effective Child, Family and Community Well-Being Section 2: The Successes and Failures of Child Protection 2. The Chequered History of Contemporary Child Protection Practice 3. Differential Responses and Changing Social Mandates 4. The Troubled State of Organizational Environments 5. Service Users and Stakeholders Section 3: A Child and Family Well-Being Reform Agenda 6. Reforming Child Protection: Principles and Processes 7. A New Ethical and Practice Framework 8. Effective Organizational and Service Delivery Models 9 . Planning and Implementing Change Section 4: Crisis, What Crisis? The Past and the Future: Choice and Chance 10. Change and the Future of Child and Family Well-Being Practice

‘…exceptionally well evidenced and explained so that the overall argument makes a compelling case for paradigm change…this is an excellent book, making a compelling case for the need for a radical change in the way society supports and polices families.’ – Eileen Munro, Child and Family Social Work'Reforming Child Protection is an important step in building the intellectual foundation for transformation of the systems most directly responsible for children's safety.' – Gary B. Melton, Clemson University, USA