Our Patron

We are extremely thankful to our patron who champion our work and make an extraordinary contribution to help us meet our objectives. Prof. Nigel Parton is a professor at University of Huddersfield. He is an expert in research and he is interested Child Protection Practice, Social Policy and Social Work to address human needs for security, education, work, health and wellbeing around the world.

Prof. Nigel Parton worked as a lecturer, senior lecturer, principal lecturer, professor in child care, Director of the Centre of Applied Childhood Studies, Head of research in the school of human and health sciences, Coordinator for the Social Work Research Assessment Exercise, held visiting professorships at the University of Tampere (Finland), La Trobe University (Australia) and the University of Edinburgh (Scotland), and been a Senior Hallsworth Fellow at the University of Machester (England) and a Kempe-Haruv Fellow at the Kempe Centre, University of Colorado (USA).  

He  is the Author, co-author and editor of 25 books and over 100 refereed journal papers and book chapters in the broad fields of child welfare, child protection and social work including The Politics of Child Abuse (Palgrave/Macmillan, 1985), Governing the Family (Palgrave/Macmillan, 1991), Safeguarding Childhood (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2006), and The Politics of Child Protection (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2014).

Currently Editor in Chief of the open access journal Social Sciences and previously editor of the journal Children and Society (1996-2006). Member of numerous international journal editorial boards including Child Abuse and Neglect: The International Journal; Children and Youth Services Review; and The International Journal on Child Maltreatment: Research, Policy and Practice.