Editorial: Child Welfare in the Twenty-First Century: Retaining Core Values and Sustaining Innovation in Theory and Practice.

The authors discuss the fresh thinking needed for child and family social work in the 21st century. Topics mentioned include international debate on the frameworks of child welfare, contribution of social work in trying to understand the needs of children and parents in contact with services, and the usefulness of attachment theory in child welfare in the light of its dominance in England.