All Outputs (7)

Risk of forced marriage amongst people with learning disabilities in the UK: Perspectives of South Asian carers (2020)
Journal Article

Background: People with intellectual disabilities are at increased risk of forced marriage in comparison to those without intellectual disabilities. In the UK this risk is particularly, though not exclusively, associated with South Asian communities... Read More about Risk of forced marriage amongst people with learning disabilities in the UK: Perspectives of South Asian carers.

The demographics of forced marriage of people with learning disabilities: findings from a national database (2020)
Journal Article

Purpose The purpose of this study is to compare the UK demographics of forced marriage of people with learning disabilities and people without learning disabilities to inform effective safeguarding practice. Design/methodology/approach An analys... Read More about The demographics of forced marriage of people with learning disabilities: findings from a national database.

Family experiences of children’s social care involvement following a social work change programme (2017)
Journal Article

Social work change programmes rooted in a particular practice theory and design are increasingly a fixture of UK local authority social work and the focus of a small but developing body of research. However, in this research to date, there has been a... Read More about Family experiences of children’s social care involvement following a social work change programme.

Forced marriage of people with learning disabilities: a human rights issue (2017)
Journal Article

This paper reports some of the findings of an exploratory study which sought to better understand the demographics of forced marriage of people with learning disabilities and the contexts in which such marriages may occur. It was found that forced ma... Read More about Forced marriage of people with learning disabilities: a human rights issue.

Working with the whole family: What case files tell us about social work practices (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 John Wiley & Sons Ltd Practice theories to support child protection social work in the United Kingdom, as in the United States and Australia, are being squeezed out by a focus on performance targets and procedural timescales. This study exam... Read More about Working with the whole family: What case files tell us about social work practices.

Changing practice: the possibilities and limits for reshaping social work practice (2017)
Journal Article

Since 2010 the United Kingdom has witnessed a number of initiatives that shift away from reliance on performance management to improve social work with children and families, towards a renewed interest in practice models. This study reports on the ev... Read More about Changing practice: the possibilities and limits for reshaping social work practice.

Safeguarding people with learning difficulties from forced marriage: the role of safeguarding adult boards (2016)
Journal Article

Purpose The issue of forced marriage is typically located within debates on violence against women, immigration control and cultural difference and is rarely considered in relation to adults with learning disabilities. The purpose of this paper is t... Read More about Safeguarding people with learning difficulties from forced marriage: the role of safeguarding adult boards.