Lisa Holmes Author

Lisa Holmes is Assistant Director of the Centre for Child and Family Research at Loughborough University, UK. She currently leads a programme of research to explore the cost of child welfare. With her colleagues, Jean Soper and Harriet Ward she led the development of the Cost Calculator for Children's Services. Samantha McDermid is a Research Associate at the Centre for Child and Family Research, where she has worked on the Costs and Outcomes programme of research for the past four years.