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Ruth's research interests include family support; safeguarding children within the community; multi disciplinary child protection; integrated practice; Quality Assurance in children's services; and public policy development.
Evaluation of a common assessment framework and database for Wales
Improving joint practice in emotional harm and neglect
Understanding serious case reviews and their impact: a biennial analysis of serious case reviews 2005-07.
Marian Brandon, Sue Bailey, Pippa Belderson, Ruth Gardner, Peter Sidebotham, Jane Dodsworth, Catherine Warren and Jane Black
Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF), 2009.
Analysing child deaths and serious injury through abuse and neglect: what can we learn? A biennial analysis of serious case reviews 2003-2005.
Marian Brandon, Pippa Belderson, Catherine Warren, David Howe, Ruth Gardner, Jane Dodsworth and Jane Black.
Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF), 2008.
Developing an effective response to neglect and emotional harm to children.
Ruth Gardner.
University of East Anglia and NSPCC, 2008.
Towards a public service agreement on safeguarding (PDF, 1.8MB)
Jeff Mesie, Ruth Gardner and Lorraine Radford for the Department for Education and Skills
Nottingham: Department for Education and Skills (DfES), 2007.
ISBN 9781844788910. Research Report RR829.
Towards a public service agreement on safeguarding - executive summary (PDF, 163KB)
Gardner, R. (2003, 2005). Supporting families: child protection in the community. Chichester: Wiley.
Gardner, R. (2005). Safeguarding children through supporting families. In: P. Dolan, J. Canavan and J. Pinkerton eds. Family support as reflective practice . London: Jessica Kingsley.
Gardner, R. (2003). A national evaluation of family support services. In: I. Katz and J. Pinkerton, eds. Evaluating family support, thinking internationally, thinking critically . Chichester: Wiley. Available from NSPCC Publications.
Gardner, R. (2003). Working together to improve children's life chances: the challenge of inter-agency collaboration. In: J. Weinstein, C. Whittington and T. Leiba eds. Collaboration in social work practice . London: Jessica Kingsley.
Gardner, R. (2006). The challenge of integrating children's services. Child Abuse Review. 15(6): 373-6.
National University of Ireland Galway June 2005 (keynote speaker) Safeguarding children and family support.
International Child and Family Conference, London 2004 Research on supporting families and child protection.
International Child and Family Conference, London 2003 Risk and resilience in adolescents.
BAPSCAN Conference, York 2003 Learning from non accidental child deaths.
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