No. 28, July 2006

Index

• Foreword.
• From mopping up the damage to preventing the flood: the role of social policy in preventing violence against children.
• Cultural conceptualisation of child abuse and responses to it: an aboriginal perspective.
• Creating a warm place where children can blossom.
• Towards coherent care and education support policies for New Zealand families.
• Stabilisation of the statutory child protection response: managing to a specified level of risk assurance.
• The underlying instability in statutory child protection: understanding the system dynamics driving risk assurance levels.
• Geographic micro-clustering of homosexual men: implications for research and social policy.
• Client satisfaction with the early start service.
• Poverty.