Dr Marian Brandon is a Reader in Social Work at the University of East Anglia and Director of Post Qualifying Programmes. Before joining the University she worked for ten years as a social worker in both residential and fieldwork settings. Marian has published widely and her research activity focuses on child maltreatment, family support and inter-agency working. She regularly directs national analyses of serious case reviews for the English and Welsh Government and is carrying out a study of family involvement in serious case reviews (funded by BASPCAN). She has also conducted a longitudinal study of maltreated children and other family support research including a study of intensive family preservation services and a cross national study of community based centres.