All Outputs (15)

Exploring the Changes and Challenges of COVID-19 in Adult Safeguarding Practice: Qualitative Findings from a Mixed-Methods Project (2022)
Journal Article

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present findings from a mixed methods study on the impact COVID-19 has had on adult safeguarding. The research sought to explore the challenges and opportunities presented by COVID-19 to both frontline and no... Read More about Exploring the Changes and Challenges of COVID-19 in Adult Safeguarding Practice: Qualitative Findings from a Mixed-Methods Project.

Mothers of children removed under a care order: outcomes and experiences (2020)
Journal Article

Focusing on accounts by women who have children taken into care, this paper reports on a socio-legal case study in England, investigating the life experiences of nine mothers, whose children have been made subject to care orders under the Children Ac... Read More about Mothers of children removed under a care order: outcomes and experiences.

Social Work Law - 5th Edition (2020)
Book

The interface between the Care Act 2014 and asylum law: exclusions and innovations (2019)
Book Chapter

Safeguarding Adults (2019)
Book

Working to safeguard adults is a complex area of practice that requires careful balancing of autonomy, protection and risk. In order to make good, lawful judgements about when and how to intervene, practitioners therefore need to have a comprehensive... Read More about Safeguarding Adults.

Safeguarding in older age (2018)
Book Chapter

Contact, welfare and children in care: Revisiting the significance of harm after finding significant harm. (2017)
Journal Article

The focus of this paper is the issue of continuing birth family involvement in the child’s life once the child is living in care. Drawing on a psychosocial study and free association narrative interviews with care leavers it focuses on the harm to a... Read More about Contact, welfare and children in care: Revisiting the significance of harm after finding significant harm..

‘The changing face of youth justice’ (2016)
Book Chapter

Critical Issues in Social Work Law (2016)
Book

Time for justice, time for change! The place of academic and community partnerships in promoting local and global rights and challenging injustice (2016)
Journal Article

This paper reflects on a three-year research project involving academics and public, private and third sector partners in the UK and India. The team engaged with innovative international outreach research methods to question how listening to ‘voices... Read More about Time for justice, time for change! The place of academic and community partnerships in promoting local and global rights and challenging injustice.

‘The changing face of youth justice’ (2016)
Book Chapter

In this chapter we are concerned with the operation of the criminal justice system as it applies to defendants under 18 years of age. This group includes children (10–13) and young persons (14–17), collectively referred to as ‘juveniles’ and, in this... Read More about ‘The changing face of youth justice’.

Social Work Law (2015)
Book

Safeguarding adults (2014)
Book

Carers and the Mental Capacity Act 2005: Angels Permitted, Devils Prosecuted? (2014)
Journal Article

The Mental Capacity Act 2005 introduced a new criminal offence of ill-treatment or wilful neglect of a person lacking capacity. The Court of Appeal has clarified the terms of the offence in the case of Dunn1, and more recently in Nursing2 and Patel.3... Read More about Carers and the Mental Capacity Act 2005: Angels Permitted, Devils Prosecuted?.

Safeguarding adults (2009)
Book