Research Review

This paper provides a review of the literature about family centres and other examples of centre‐based practice. The literature reflects a period of some 25 years in which practice has sought to integrate protection, support for families and local development in local centres. The literature shows great descriptive activity in the 1980s, and some Children Act (1989) sponsored studies, particularly of the voluntary sector, in the early 1990s, followed by inactivity before a new and more sophisticated literature emerges in the late 1990s and early 2000. While lacking experimental design, the strengths of the contemporary picture show in the appreciative voice of the user, including those at the very margins; studies of support programmes nurtured by centres; lessons about socially inclusive practice and the melding of formality and informality; theorization about centre‐based practice as a containing space; and attempts to understand complexity and synergy and to develop a theory of change. This domain of practice appears to have much to offer the new UK child care strategy and inter‐professional context if the opportunity is taken

Appreciative Inquiry · Economic growth · Formality · Pedagogy · Political science · Practice research · Public relations · Sociology · Voluntary sector · Computer Science · Family Support in Illness · Healthcare innovation and challenges · History · Research in Social Sciences

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• High‐risk children with challenging behaviour

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• A qualitative study of parents' experiences using family support services

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• Enacting parenting policy? The hybrid spaces of Sure Start Children's Centres

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• Outcomes for Families Referred to Family Centres

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• Centros de Apoio Familiar e Aconselhamento Parental

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• Open access family centres and their users

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• Being there

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• Effective interventions to promote child and family wellness

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• Local authority family centre intervention

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• Developing Early Years Childcare in England, 1997–2002

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• Investing in the Citizen‐workers of the Future

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• Rethinking “Child Placement”

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• The Ecological Paradigm in Child, Youth, and Family Services

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• Complexity and post-modernism

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