Introduction / Hannele Forsberg and Teppo Kröger
Nordic family policies: constructing contexts for social work with families / Guðny Björk Eydal and Teppo Kröger
A Nordic model in child welfare? / Helena Blomberg [and others]
From welfare to illfare: public concern for Finnish childhood / Hannele Forsberg and Aino Ritala-Koskinen
Supporting families: the role of family work in child welfare / Marjo Kuronen and Pia Lahtinen
Family focused social work: professional challenges of the 21st century / Sigrun Juliusdottir
In the best interest of the child? Contradictions and tensions in social work / Reidun Follesø and Kate Mevik
Children in families receiving financial welfare assistance: visible or invisible? / Inger Marii Tronvoll
Listening to children's experiences of being participant witnesses to domestic violence / Margareta Hyden
Now you see them
now you don't: institutions in child protection policy / Tuija Eronen, Riitta Laakso and Tarja Pösö
Epilogue: on developing empowering child welfare systems and the welfare research needed to create them / Keith Pringle.