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The legal and policy context in Scotland and Northern Ireland, Kevin McCoy, Angus Skinner; communication, co-operation or collaboration - voluntary organizations involvement in the first Scottish children's services plans, Kay Tisdall et al; operationalising the definition of children in need from UK child care legislation, Patrick McCrystal; understanding and developing family support in Northern Ireland - the challenge to policy, practice and research, Kathryn Higgins; young people with disabilities - management of transitions from childhood to adulthood, Marina Monteith; looking after children materials, Suzanne Wheelaghan, Malcolm Hill; education and looked after children, Moira Borland; regarding Scotland's black children, Satnam Singh, Vijay Patel; the use of adoption as a route out of the care system, Andre Percy; from childhood to adulthood - the outcomes of 20 years follow-up of failure-to-thrive children, Dorota Iwaniec; influence of video mediation on adult-child interviews - implications for the use of the live link with child witnesses, Gywneth Doherty-Sneddon; the other 23 hours - the treatment within the community of adolescent sex offenders and their children, Stuart Mulholland; lessons learned from current research, Malcolm Hill.