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PART I. THE NEED FOR INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON -- Perspective Through International Comparison in the Evaluation of Family Support / John Pinkerton and Ilan Katz -- PART II. UNDERPINNING ISSUES -- Political and Technical Issues Facing Evaluators of Family Support / Jane Tunstill -- Social Exclusion, Family Support and Evaluation / Corinne Wattam, et al. -- The Value of Resilience as a Key Concept in Evaluating Family Support / Robbie Gilligan -- Issues in Evaluating Family Support Services: An American Perspective / Peter Pecora -- Comparative Research as a method evaluating family support / Rachael Hetherington -- PART III. 'CASE STUDIES' FROM AROUND THE WORLD -- National Policy Making and the Need to Evaluate Family Support in the Republic of Ireland / Catherine Hazlett -- A Culturally Relevant Model for Evaluating Family Services in Hong Kong / Monit Cheung -- Lessons from the Evaluation of Family Support in New Zealand / Jackie Sanders and Robyn Munford -- An Evaluation of Family-Support Services Provided by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in the United Kingdom / Ruth Gardner -- Empowering Parents: A Two-Generation Intervention in a Community Context in Northern Ireland / Nuala Quiery, et al. -- The Indicators Study: An Cross Site Implementation Evaluation of the Community Partnerships for Protecting Children Initiative in America / Stephen Budde -- Policy Roots and Practice Growth: Evaluating Family Support on the West Coast of Ireland / John Canavan and Pat Dolan -- The Resourceful Adolescent Project: A Universal Approach to Preventing Adolescent Depression Through Promoting Resilience and Family Well Being in Australia / Ian Schochet and David Ham -- Evaluation of the Contact Family Service in Sweden / Gunvor Anderson -- PART IV. TOWARDS AN INTERNATIONAL AGENDA -- International Convergence, and Divergence: Towards an Open System Model in the Evaluation of Family Support / Ilan Katz and John Pinkerton.

AbstractThe article presents the findings of an international literature review conducted to examine the factors that drive inter‐country adoption rates within both sending and receiving countries. The authors then consider the implications of these findings for inter‐country adoption policy reform in Australia. The evidence in the literature highlights a distinction between the factors that drive ICA in sending and receiving countries. Factors that drive the practice in sending countries relate to structural forms such as socio‐economic and political conditions. In contrast, it is the growing demand for a child from infertile couples that drives the practice in receiving countries. The article then considers the challenges of domestic policy reform undertaken to increase numbers of inter‐country adoptions in a context of global decline.

This study reports on a series of qualitative interviews with professionals in Shanghai, China who work with children. The interviews explored the awareness of child protection issues amongst a range of people who work with children, how they differentiate corporal punishment from maltreatment and what they would do in response to cases of child abuse. Shanghai has one of the most well developed child welfare systems in China, and compared to similar professionals in other cities, those in Shanghai had higher awareness and more training, but were nevertheless reluctant to intervene and did not feel well prepared to deal with cases of child abuse should they be encountered. However there are some indications that practice is improving, and examples of recent developments are provided.