Emily R. Munro is Research Fellow at the Centre for Child and Family Research (CCfR), Loughborough University. Her research interests include the interaction between different professional groups in the decision-making process influencing life pathways and outcomes for vulnerable children and innovative methodologies to ensure that service users' views inform policy and practice. She is co-author of Babies and Young Children in Care (with Harriet Ward and Chris Dearden) also published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers in the Child Welfare Outcomes series.