Professor Bob Broad PhD is Visiting Professor, Weeks Centre for Social and Policy Research, London South Bank University. He was previously Professor of Children's and Families Research at De Montfort University, Leicester; Director of Research at the National Children's Bureau, London; and Lecturer in Social Work Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science, London. He has managed, undertaken and published a large number of research studies about children looked after, leaving care, foster care, kinship care and grandparenting.