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The Barnahus model was launched in Iceland in 1998, and it subsequently spread to all the Nordic countries. It is an interagency, co-located model for working with cases of violence and abuse against children that addresses two vital concerns of welfare societies: to process cases through the legal system and to offer support and treatment to victims. The model is currently recommended as a best-practice model on the European leveland understood as representing a radical change in the organisational setup related to such cases. This paper analyses the diffusion and implementation of the model in two different contexts: the Nordic region and the wider European arena, where the model is currently promoted as an important innovation. Drawing on the concept of social innovation, we explore the structural and contextual conditions for the diffusion of the model and discuss its role in the ongoing transformation of welfare societies' response to children exposed to violence and abuse. We identify the policy-making means by which the model is promoted today and conclude that it can lead to manifold institutional changes, both radical and incremental, and both desired and undesired, depending on how the original idea is translated and adapted in different contexts.

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The Barnahus model was introduced in the Nordic countries as a response to a growing recognition of the need for more integrated and child-centred services for children exposed to violence and sexual abuse. It has been

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Since access to justice scholarship has gradually become a more multifaceted, international and empirical endeavour, this special issue illustrates a broader scope of contemporary access to justice research from a multi-disciplinary and socio-legal perspective. The issue gathers contributions from European and US scholars, representing different disciplinary backgrounds, such as law, sociology of law, political science, philosophy, social work, and criminology, yet with a common interest in access to justice. This includes the study of various contexts (apart from the courts) and actors (apart from lawyers) who make unilateral legally based decisions that have direct consequences for individuals, or in other ways facilitates or hinders access to justice in a (broader) democratic sense. Through its contributions, this special issue identifies and discusses a variety of barriers and facilitators in areas where access to justice is deemed problematic and therefor highly important for policy and practice development.  Dado que los estudios sobre el acceso a la justicia se han convertido gradualmente en una tarea más polifacética, internacional y empírica, este número especial ilustra un ámbito más amplio de la investigación contemporánea sobre el acceso a la justicia desde una perspectiva multidisciplinar y socio-jurídica. El número reúne contribuciones de especialistas europeos y estadounidenses, que representan distintos ámbitos disciplinarios, como el derecho, la sociología del derecho, las ciencias políticas, la filosofía, el trabajo social y la criminología, pero con un interés común por el acceso a la justicia. Esto incluye el estudio de diversos contextos (aparte de los tribunales) y actores (aparte de los abogados) que toman decisiones unilaterales basadas en la ley que tienen consecuencias directas para los individuos, o que de otro modo facilitan o dificultan el acceso a la justicia en un sentido democrático (más amplio). A través de sus contribuciones, este número especial identifica y analiza diversos obstáculos y facilitadores en ámbitos en los que el acceso a la justicia se considera problemático y, por tanto, de gran importancia para el desarrollo de políticas y prácticas. Available from: https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1351