Launching Palgrave's new Interagency Working in Health and Social Care series, this book provides one of the first reflective assessments of the Every Child Matters legacy of New Labour. Woven through with the voice of the child, it examines the new landscape of children's services, in bothprinciple and practice.

MARY KELLETTis Professor of Childhood and Youth and Founding Director of the Children's Research Centre at the Open University, UK. She is best known for her pioneering work in the empowerment of children and young people as researchers on which she haspublished widely, authoring both How to Develop Children as Researchers (Sage, 2005) and Rethinking Children and Research (Continuum, 2010).