There are plenty of scientists who publish good peer reviewed studies. But that’s all they do. Rare is it to find someone who has the whole package—impeccable research, excellent work ethic, and the ability to get that idea to the right people. That’s Kristin Moore, who has been working on children’s wellbeing for the last half century.

Dame Gillian Pugh's influential career as one of the shapers of UK parenting and early years policy has been based on the simplest of intentions: "I just want to make things better for children".

“Giving families a bit of Incredible Years is not the same as properly implementing it. It’s like baking a cake. You need all of the ingredients. People will have their own way of going about things but all the basic components have to combined in roughly the right order. There may be some adaptations – for diabetics, for example, but there are no short cuts.” Carolyn Webster-Stratton makes the case for fidelity in the kitchen of parenting programs.

Payment by results for providing agencies is controversial but, in the second of two articles on the work of Clay Yeager, we see how in Florida it is having a dramatic effect on work with juvenile offenders – and state finances.

In the first of two stories, we see how Clay Yeager’s long career is an illustration of how far the understanding of prevention and intervention by public authorities have come.

David Utting’s transition from national newspaper journalist to producer of some influential work on children’s services and parenting is now plotting reforms in the youth justice system.

In the final part of our look at Jim Alexander and Functional Family Therapy, Prevention Action considers how his personal attributes have made FFT a success. Michael Little from the Social Research Unit at Dartington Reports.

Jim Alexander‘s all too common behaviour at university taught him some lessons that have influenced his work with families, as we learn in the second part of Prevention Action’s profile.

Jim Alexander’s pioneering work on family functioning derives from his own unsettled childhood and experience of being parented, as the first part of our profile shows.

Over 100,000 American families have benefited from the Nurse Family Partnership program. Its success is rooted in the cautious, deliberate and determined approach of creator David Olds.

David Finkelhor is rare among champions opposing child maltreatment and family violence to have done so much to advocate for the use of science and evidence to improve policy and practice in this area.

Patrick Chaulk was part of the team that rid Baltimore of Tuberculosis (TB). Now he’s ready for a new challenge: helping to bring universal health care to his home city.