All Outputs (4)

Family experiences of children’s social care involvement following a social work change programme (2017)
Journal Article
Archard, P., Laird, S. E., Clawson, R., & Morris, K. (2017). Family experiences of children’s social care involvement following a social work change programme. Journal of Social Work Practice, 32(3), 237-250. https://doi.org/10.1080/02650533.2017.1326473

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.

The Representation of the Family’s Voice in Serious Case Review Reports of Child Maltreatment (2017)
Journal Article
Laird, S. E. (2017). The Representation of the Family’s Voice in Serious Case Review Reports of Child Maltreatment. Australian Social Work, 70(4), 417-428. https://doi.org/10.1080/0312407X.2017.1309670

© 2017 Australian Association of Social Workers. Australia and the United Kingdom have mandatory systems of case reviews, which are conducted whenever a child known to welfare or health services has died or been seriously harmed due to maltreatment.... Read More about The Representation of the Family’s Voice in Serious Case Review Reports of Child Maltreatment.

Working with the whole family: What case files tell us about social work practices (2017)
Journal Article
Laird, S. E., Morris, K., Archard, P., & Clawson, R. (2017). Working with the whole family: What case files tell us about social work practices. Child and Family Social Work, 22(3), 1322-1329. https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.12349

© 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
Laird, S. E., Morris, K., Archard, P., & Clawson, R. (2017). Changing practice: the possibilities and limits for reshaping social work practice. Qualitative Social Work, https://doi.org/10.1177/1473325016688371

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.