Items created by Thomas, Nigel Patrick

2025

Thomas, Nigel Patrick ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2025) Well-being, Recognition and Participation: The Challenge for Schools. In: Well-being at School: A Social Problem. Wiley, pp. 225-251. ISBN 9781789452174 (In Press)

2024

Thomas, Nigel Patrick ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 and Winter, Karen (2024) Social Work with Young People in Care: Looking After Children in Theory and Practice [2nd Edition]. Routledge. ISBN 9781032821511

2023

Thomas, Nigel Patrick ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2023) Afterword. In: Children and Young People's Participation in Child Protection. Oxford University Press (OUP). ISBN 9780197622322

Percy-Smith, Barry, Thomas, Nigel Patrick ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144, O'Kane, Claire and Twum-Danso Imoh, Afua (2023) A Handbook of Children and Young People’s Participation: Conversations for Transformational Change. A Handbook of Children and Young People's Participation (2). Routledge, London. ISBN 9781003367758

Percy-Smith, Barry and Thomas, Nigel Patrick ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2023) Introduction. In: A Handbook of Children and Young People’s Participation: Conversations for Transformational Change. A Handbook of Children and Young People’s Participation . Routledge, London. ISBN 9781003367758

Graham, Anne, Canosa, Antonia, Wall, John and Thomas, Nigel Patrick ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2023) Child-Safe Organisations and the Ethics of Empowered Inclusion. Children & Society . ISSN 0951-0605

2022

Amin, Hasaan, Attipoe, Vanessa, Dantata, Hassan, Rimes, Daniel, Percy-Smith, Barry and Thomas, Nigel Patrick ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2022) Moving Out of Formal Structures: Young People as Independent Action Researchers (A Manchester Case). In: Reshaping Youth Participation: Manchester in a European Gaze. Emerald, pp. 31-49.

Graham, Anne, Anderson, Donnah, Truscott, Julia, Simmons, Catharine, Thomas, Nigel Patrick ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144, Cashmore, Judy and Bessell, Sharon (2022) Exploring the associations between student participation, wellbeing and recognition at school. Cambridge Journal of Education . ISSN 0305-764X

2021

Anderson, Donnah L., Graham, Anne P., Simmons, Catharine and Thomas, Nigel Patrick ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2021) Positive links between student participation, recognition and wellbeing at school. International Journal of Educational Research, 111 . p. 101896. ISSN 0883-0355

Thomas, Nigel Patrick ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2021) Child-Led Research, Children’s Rights and Childhood Studies: a Defence. Childhood, 28 (2). pp. 186-199. ISSN 0907-5682

Powell, M.A., Graham, A., Canosa, A., Anderson, D., Taylor, N., Robinson, S., Moore, T. and Thomas, Nigel Patrick ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2021) Children and Safety in Australian Policy: Implications for Organisations and Practitioners. Australian Journal of Social Issues, 56 (1). pp. 17-41.

2020

Powell, Mary Ann, Graham, Anne, Canosa, Antonia, Anderson, Donnah, Moore, Tim, Robinson, Sally, Thomas, Nigel Patrick ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 and Taylor, Nicola (2020) Child safety in policy: Who is being kept safe and from what? Social Policy & Administration, 54 (7). pp. 1160-1178. ISSN 0144-5596

Newitt, Simon and Thomas, Nigel Patrick ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2020) Participating in Social Exclusion: a reflexive account of collaborative research and researcher identities in the field. Action Research . ISSN 1476-7503

Thomas, Nigel Patrick ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 and Imanian, Sara (2020) Independent Children's Rights Institutions as Facilitators of Dialogue between Children and the State: An Opportunity for Mutual Empowerment? Societies Without Borders, 14 (1). ISSN 1872-1915

Batsleer, Janet, Thomas, Nigel Patrick ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 and Pohl, Axel (2020) Who knows? Youth work and the mise-en-scene: reframing pedagogies of youth participation. Pedagogy, Culture & Society, 28 (2). pp. 205-221. ISSN 1468-1366

2019

Percy-Smith, Barry, Cuconato, Morena, Reutlinger, Christian and Thomas, Nigel Patrick ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2019) Action research with young people: possibilities and ‘messy realities’. Diskurs Kindheits- und Jugendforschung / Discourse. Journal of Childhood and Adolescence Research, 3 . pp. 255-270. ISSN 1862-5002

Anderson, D.L., Graham, A.P. and Thomas, Nigel Patrick ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2019) Assessing Student Participation at School: Developing a Multidimensional Scale. International Journal of Student Voice, 5 (1).

Percy-Smith, B, Thomas, Nigel Patrick ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144, Batsleer, J and Forkby, T (2019) Everyday pedagogies: New perspectives on youth participation, social learning and citizenship. In: Young People and the Struggle for Participation: Contested Practices, Power and Pedagogies in Public Spaces. Routledge, Abingdon, Chapter 12, 22 pages. ISBN 9780429432095

Walther, A, Pohl, A, Loncle, P and Thomas, Nigel Patrick ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2019) Researching Youth Participation – theoretical and methodological reflections on limitations of existing research and innovative perspectives. In: Young People and the Struggle for Participation: Contested Practices, Power and Pedagogies in Public Spaces. Routledge, Abingdon, Chapter 2. 21 Pages. ISBN 9780429432095

Thomas, Nigel Patrick ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2019) What is the Point of Studying Childhood as a Social Phenomenon? Children & Society, 33 (4). pp. 324-332. ISSN 0951-0605

Imanian, Sara and Thomas, Nigel Patrick ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2019) Understanding the Impact of Independent Human Rights Institutions for Children: A European Study. The International Journal of Children’s Rights, 27 (2). pp. 339-372. ISSN 0927-5568

Graham, A, Bessell, S, Adamson, E, Truscot, J, Simmons, C, Thomas, Nigel Patrick ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144, Gardon, L and Johnson, A (2019) Navigating the ambiguous policy landscape of student participation. Journal of Education Policy, 34 (6). pp. 789-811. ISSN 0268-0939

Percy-Smith, Barry, McMahon, Gráinne and Thomas, Nigel Patrick ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2019) Recognition, inclusion and democracy: learning from action research with young people. Educational Action Research, 27 . pp. 347-361. ISSN 0965-0792

2018

Graham, Anne, Truscott, Julia, Simmons, Catharine, Anderson, Donnah and Thomas, Nigel Patrick ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2018) Exploring student participation across different arenas of school life. British Educational Research Journal, 44 (6). pp. 1029-1046. ISSN 0141-1926

Graham, A, Truscott, J, Simmons, C, Anderson, D, Thomas, Nigel Patrick ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144, Bessell, S, Cashmore, J and Moss, A (2018) Improving Wellbeing through Student Participation at School Phase 2 Qualitative Report: Views of Students, Staff and Policymakers. Project Report. UNSPECIFIED, Lismore: Australia.

Thomas, Nigel Patrick ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 and Stoecklin, Daniel (2018) Recognition and Capability: A New Way to Understand How Children Can Achieve Their Rights? In: Theorising Childhood. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 73-94.

2017

Skinner, Anne and Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2017) ‘A pest to society’: the Charity Organisation Society’s domiciliary assessments into the circumstances of poor families and children. Children & Society . ISSN 0951-0605

Paulsen, Veronika and Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2017) The transition to adulthood from care as a struggle for recognition. Child and Family Social Work . ISSN 1356-7500

Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144, Crowley, Anne, Moxon, Daniel, Ridley, Julie ORCID: 0000-0002-0879-308X, Street, Cathy and Joshi, Puja (2017) Independent advocacy for children and young people: developing an outcomes framework. Children & Society . ISSN 0951-0605

Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2017) Turning the Tables: Children as Researchers. In: Research with Children: Perspectives and Practices. Routledge, Oxon, England, pp. 160-179. ISBN 978-1138100893

2016

Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144, Percy-Smith, Barry, Johnson, Vicky, Larkins, Cath ORCID: 0000-0003-2999-6916 and Crook, Deborah (2016) Research with Children and Young People as Partners: What Does it Teach Us About Intergenerational Relations? In: Children and Young People in a Changing World: Action, Agency and Participation, 23 - 24 June 2016, Liverpool Hope University. (Unpublished)

Graham, Anne, Powell, Mary Ann, Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 and Anderson, Donnah (2016) Reframing ‘well-being’ in schools: the potential of recognition. Cambridge Journal of Education . pp. 1-17. ISSN 0305-764X

Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144, Street, Cathy, Ridley, Julie ORCID: 0000-0002-0879-308X, Crowley, Anne, Moxon, Dan, Joshi, Puja, Amalathas, Evangeline, Rix, Katie and Edwards, Amy (2016) Independent Advocacy: Impact and Outcomes for Children and Young People. Project Report. University of Central Lancashire (UCLan).

Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144, Graham, Anne, Powell, Mary Ann and Fitzgerald, Robyn (2016) Conceptualisations of children’s wellbeing at school: the contribution of recognition theory. Childhood, 23 (4). pp. 506-520. ISSN 0907-5682

2015

Simmons, Catharine, Graham, Anne and Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2015) Imagining an ideal school for wellbeing: Locating student voice. Journal of Educational Change, 16 (2). pp. 129-144. ISSN 1389-2843

Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2015) Children and Young People's Participation in Research. In: International Perspectives and Empirical Findings on Child Participation: From Social Exclusion to Child-Inclusive Policies. Oxford University Press (OUP). ISBN 13: 978-0199366989; 10: 0199366985

Larkins, Cath ORCID: 0000-0003-2999-6916, Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144, Carter, Bernie ORCID: 0000-0001-5226-9878, Farrelly, Nicola ORCID: 0000-0002-9006-335X, Judd, Dawn Beatrice and Lloyd, Jane (2015) Support for Children’s Protagonism: Methodological Moves towards Critical Children Rights Research Framed from Below. The International Journal of Children's Rights, 23 (2). pp. 332-364. ISSN 0927-5568

2014

Pert, H, Diaz, C and Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2014) Children's Participation in LAC Reviews: a study in one Engilsh local authority. Child and Family Social Work . ISSN 1356-7500

Whittaker, Karen ORCID: 0000-0002-3493-9396, Cox, Pat ORCID: 0000-0003-2565-4564, Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 and Cocker, Karen (2014) A qualitative study of parents' experiences using family support services: applying the concept of surface and depth. Health and Social Care in the Community, 22 (5). pp. 479-487. ISSN 0966-0410

Westwood, Joanne Louise ORCID: 0000-0002-7560-1391, Larkins, Cath ORCID: 0000-0003-2999-6916, Moxon, Dan, Perry, Yasmin and Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2014) Participation, Citizenship and Intergenerational Relations in Children and Young People's Lives: Children and Adults in Conversation. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781137379696

Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2014) Children's Rights and the Law. In: An Introduction to Early Childhood Studies (3rd Edition). SAGE. ISBN PPbk: 9781446270677; Hbk: 9781446270660; Ebook: 9781446296264

Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2014) Sociology of Childhood. In: An Introduction to Early Childhood Studies (3rd Edition). SAGE. ISBN Pbk: 9781446270677; Hbk: 9781446270660; Ebook: 9781446296264

2013

Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 and Montgomery, Heather (2013) Children and Politics. In: Oxford Bibliographies: Childhood Studies. Oxford University Press (OUP), New York, NY, USA.

Larkins, Cath ORCID: 0000-0003-2999-6916, Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 and Judd, Dawn Beatrice (2013) "We want to help people see things our way": A rights-based analysis of disabled children's experience living with low income. Project Report. Office of the Children's Commissioner for England, London, UK.

2012

Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 and Percy-Smith, Barry (2012) 'It's about changing services and building relationships': evaluating the development of Children in Care Councils. Child & Family Social Work, 17 (4). pp. 487-496. ISSN 1356-7500

Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2012) A long-term partnership - adult and young researchers working together on the evaluation of the Children's Commissioner for Wales. In: Involving Children and Young People in Health and Social Care Research. Routledge, London and New York, pp. 149-159. ISBN 978-0-415-66349-6

Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2012) Love, rights and solidarity: studying children's participation using Honneth's theory of recognition. Childhood, 19 (4). pp. 453-466. ISSN 0907-5682

Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144, Pilgrim, David, Street, Cathy and Larsen, John (2012) Supporting young people with mental health problems: lessons from a voluntary sector pilot. Mental Health Review Journal, 17 (1). pp. 14-25. ISSN 1361-9322

2011

Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2011) The role and impact of independent children's rights institutions in the UK and Europe. Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 33 (3). pp. 279-288. ISSN 0964-9069

Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 and Devaney, John (2011) Editorial: Safeguarding refugee and asylum-seeking children. Wiley.

Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2011) System failure hits west Wales council. Click on Wales .

Newbigging, Karen and Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2011) Good practice in Social Care for refugee and asylum-seeking children. Child Abuse Review, 20 (5). pp. 374-390. ISSN 0952-9136

Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2011) Care Planning and Review for Looked After Children: Fifteen Years of Slow Progress? The British Journal of Social Work, 41 (2). pp. 387-398. ISSN 0045-3102

Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2011) Children's rights: policy into practice. Centre for Children and Young People Background Briefing Series 4 . ISSN 1838-5524

Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144, Gran, Brian B and Hanson, Karl C (2011) An independent voice for children's rights in Europe? The role of independent children's rights institutions in the EU. The International Journal of Children's Rights, 19 (3). pp. 429-449. ISSN 0927-5568

2010

Vis, Svein Arild, Holtan, Amy, Strandhu, Astrid and Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2010) Participation and health - a research review of child participation in planning and decision-making. Child & Family Social Work, 16 (3). pp. 325-335.

Vis, Svein Arild, Holtan, Amy and Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2010) Obstacles for child participation in care and protection cases - why Norwegian social workers find it difficult. Child Abuse Review . ISSN 1099-0852

Newbigging, Karen and Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2010) Good practice in social care for asylum seekers and refugees: a resource guide. Good Practice in Social Care for Asylum Seekers and Refugees: a Resource Guide .

Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2010) Introduction: The concept of children's participation. In: Valuing Children's Potential: How children's participation contributes to fighting poverty and social exclusion. Eurochild, Brussels.

Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2010) Research review: Care planning and reviews for looked after children. Research review: Care planning and reviews for looked after children .

Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2010) 儿童青少年社会工作：照管社会工作理论与实践 (Social work with young people in care: Looking after children in theory and practice, Chinese edition). Renmin University Press, Beijing.

2009

Percy-Smith, Barry and Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2009) A Handbook of Children and Young People’s Participation: perspectives from theory and practice. Routledge, Abingdon. ISBN 978-0-415-46851-0

Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2009) Children, Politics and Communication: participation at the Margins. Policy Press, Bristol. ISBN ISBN-10: 1847421830 ISBN-13: 978-1847421838

Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2009) Listening to children and young people. In: The Child Placement Handbook. CoramBAAF. ISBN 978-1905664467

Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 and O'Kane, C (2009) Children's participation in reviews and planning meetings when they are 'looked after' in middle childhood. In: Children in State Care. Ashgate Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7546-2587-2

Vis, Svein Arild and Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2009) Beyond talking - children's participation in Norwegian care and protection cases. European Journal of Social Work, 12 (2). pp. 155-158. ISSN 1369-1457

Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2009) Children and politics. In: Children and Young People's Worlds: Frameworks for Integrated Practice. Policy Press. ISBN 978-1847423870

Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2009) Children's rights and the law. In: An Introduction to Early Childhood Studies. SAGE. ISBN 978-1847871688

Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2009) Sociology of childhood. In: An Introduction to Early Childhood Studies. SAGE. ISBN 978-1847871688

Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2009) Trailblazers: report on an evaluation of the role of the Children's Commissioner for Wales. Agenda. Devolution Dividend (37). pp. 55-57.

Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 and Crowley, A (2009) A champion for children: evaluating the Children's Commissioner for Wales. childRIGHT, 258 . pp. 21-23.

2008

Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2008) Consultation and Advocacy. In: Direct Work: Social work with children and young people in care. CoramBAAF. ISBN 978-1905664290

Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2008) Cymdeithaseg Plentyndod. In: Y Plentyn Bach: Cyflwyniad i Astudiaethau Plentyndod Cynnar. Canolfan Peniarth, Carmarthen. ISBN 978-0956007902

2007

Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2007) Towards a theory of children’s participation. The International Journal of Children’s Rights, 15 (2). pp. 199-218. ISSN 09275568

Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 and Crowley, Anne (2007) Children's rights and wellbeing in Wales in 2006. Contemporary Wales, 16 (1). pp. 161-179. ISSN 0951-4937

Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2007) Childhood in Preseli. In: The Preseli Papers. Institute of Welsh Affairs (IWA), Cardiff.

Miles, Glenn and Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2007) "Don't grind an egg against a stone" - Children's Rights and Violence in Cambodian History and Culture. Child Abuse Review, 16 (6). pp. 383-400. ISSN 0952-9136

Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2007) Towards a theory of children's participation. The International Journal of Children's Rights, 15 (2). pp. 199-218. ISSN 0927-5568

2005

Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 and Bogolub, E. (2005) Parental consent and the ethics of research with foster children: beginning a cross-cultural dialogue. Qualitative Social Work, 4 (3). pp. 271-292. ISSN 14733250

Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2005) Children, parents and the state. In: Child Welfare and Social Policy: An Essential Reader. Policy Press. ISBN 978-1861345660

Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2005) Has anything really changed? Managers' views of looked after children's participation in 1997 and 2004. Adoption & Fostering, 29 (1). pp. 67-77. ISSN Print: 0308-5759, Online: 1740-469X

Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2005) Social Work with Young People in Care: Looking after children in theory and practice. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1403920508

Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2005) The role of a children's commissioner. Integrate (Newsletter of the British Association for Early Childhood Education), 4 (5).

2004

Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2004) Interpreting children's needs: contested assumptions in the provision of welfare. In: The Politics of Childhood: International Perspectives, Contemporary Developments. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1403935519

Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2004) The Law Relating to Children. In: An Introduction to Early Childhood Studies. SAGE. ISBN 978-0761970743

Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2004) Sociology of Childhood. In: An Introduction to Early Childhood Studies. SAGE. ISBN 076 197073 8 / 0761970746 (Pbk)

2003

Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144, Cheung, W. Y., Jackson, S. and Stainton, T. (2003) Your friends don’t understand’ - invisibility and unmet need in the lives of ‘young carers. Child and Family Social Work, 8 (1). pp. 35-46. ISSN 13652206

2002

Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2002) Children, Family and the State: Decision-making and Child-participation. Policy Press. ISBN 978-1861344489

Mathias-Williams, Rachel and Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2002) Great Expectations? the career aspirations of social work students. Social Work Education, 21 (4). pp. 421-435. ISSN 0261-5479

2001

Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2001) Listening to children. In: Children in Society: Contemporary Theory, Policy and Practice. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0333945896

2000

Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 and O'Kane, Claire (2000) Discovering what children think: connections between research and practice. The British Journal of Social Work, 30 (6). pp. 819-835. ISSN Online: 1468-263X, Print: 0045-3102

Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2000) Children, Family and the State: Decision-making and Child Participation. Macmillan, Basingstoke. ISBN 9781403919915

Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (2000) Putting the family in the driving seat: the development of family group conferences in England and Wales. Social Work & Social Sciences Review, 8 (2). pp. 101-105. ISSN 0953-5225

1999

Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 and O'Kane, Claire (1999) Children's participation in reviews and planning meetings when they are 'looked after' in middle childhood. Child and Family Social Work, 4 (3). pp. 221-230. ISSN 1365-2206

Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144, Phillipson, J, O'Kane, C and Davies, E (1999) Children and decision making: a training and resource pack. [Teaching Resource]

Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 and O'Kane, Claire (1999) Experiences of decision-making in middle childhood: the example of children 'looked after' by local authorities. Childhood, 6 (3). pp. 369-388. ISSN Print: 0907-5682, Online 1461-7013

Jackson, Sonia and Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (1999) On the move again? What works in creating stability for looked after children (2nd edition 2001, What works in creating stability for looked after children?). Barnardo's, Ilford.

1998

Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 and O'Kane, C (1998) Why can't I stay with my friends? Community Care . ISSN 0307-5508

Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 and O'Kane, Claire (1998) The ethics of participatory research with children. Children & Society, 12 (5). pp. 336-348. ISSN 0951-0605

Sanders, Robert, Jackson, Sonia and Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (1998) Policy priorities in child protection: perception of risk and agency strategy. Policy Studies, 18 (2). pp. 139-158. ISSN 0144-2872

Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 and O'Kane, C (1998) Voices with volume. [Audio]

Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 and O'Kane, Claire (1998) When children's wishes and feelings clash with their 'best interests'. International Journal of Children's Rights, 6 (2). pp. 137-154. ISSN Print: 0927-5568, Online: 1571-8182

1997

Sanders, R and Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (1997) Area Child Protection Committees. Ashgate Publishing. ISBN 978-1-138-60954-9

Sanders, Robert, Jackson, Sonia and Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (1997) Degrees of involvement: the interaction of focus and commitment in Area Child Protection Committees. The British Journal of Social Work, 27 (6). pp. 871-892. ISSN Online:1468-263X, Print: 0045-3102

1996

Sanders, Robert, Jackson, Sonia and Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (1996) The balance of prevention, investigation and treatment in the management of child protection services. Child Abuse & Neglect, 20 (10). pp. 899-906. ISSN 0145-2134

Sanders, Robert, Jackson, Sonia and Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (1996) A comparison of child protection local procedures handbooks. Practice - Social Work in Action, 8 (3). pp. 31-44. ISSN Print: 0950-3153, Online: 1742-4909

Sanders, Robert, Jackson, Sonia and Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (1996) The police role in the management of child protection services. Policing and Society, 6 . pp. 87-100. ISSN 1043-9463

1995

Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 and Beckett, C (1995) Striking difference. Community Care . ISSN 0307-5508

Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (1995) Allegations of child abuse in local authority care. Practice - Social Work in Action, 7 (3). pp. 35-44. ISSN Print: 0950-3153, Online: 1742-4909

1994

Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 and Beckett, Celia (1994) Are children still waiting? New developments and the impact of the Children Act 1989. Adoption & Fostering, 18 (1). pp. 8-16. ISSN Print: 0308-5759, Online: 1740-469X

Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 and Simm, Michael (1994) Child welfare services in Russia. Children & Society, 8 (4). pp. 296-376. ISSN 1099-0860

Thomas, Nigel ORCID: 0000-0002-5310-9144 (1994) The social worker as 'bad object': a response to Marguerite Valentine. The British Journal of Social Work, 24 (6). pp. 749-754. ISSN Online: 1468-263X, Print: 0045-3102