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Children's services: working together
- Authors:
- HILL Malcolm, et al
- Publisher:
- Pearson
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 412p.
- Place of publication:
- Harlow
This book brings together contributions from a number of authors covering knowledge and understanding about children, their social environments and the service context. The book covers policy, theory, research and practice relevant to students and professionals working with children in a wide range of roles. The separate chapters are separated into 4 themes: children’s services; community and participation; evidence and theory for practice with children and families; and working together. The book sets service provision within UK legal and policy frameworks, acknowledging the impact of devolution and international obligations. It also considers the relationships between services and the wider community locally and nationally to help the reader understand the impact services have in a wider setting. Children’s own perspectives on matters such as relationships with professionals, citizenship and participation are highlighted. The book provides overviews of relevant research and key concepts, such as attachment, health inequalities, learning, resilience, desistance and transitions. The emphasis is on working collaboratively with other professionals, where appropriate, and a holistic approach to children.
Parenting and resilience
- Authors:
- HILL Malcolm, et al
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 59p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
Considers parents’ contributions to children’s and their own ‘resilience’, identifying opportunities to build on rather than problems to treat.
More haste, less speed? An evaluation of fast track policies to tackle persistent youth offending in Scotland
- Authors:
- HILL Malcolm, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Youth Justice, 7(2), August 2007, pp.121-137.
- Publisher:
- Sage
In 2003 the Scottish Executive introduced a new `Fast Track' policy on a pilot basis, which was intended to speed up the processing of persistent youth offending cases and reduce rates of persistent offending. Additional resources were provided to promote access to dedicated programmes, as well as quicker assessment, report delivery and decision making. This paper, based on a multi-stranded comparative evaluation, describes how the policy was welcomed by a wide range of practitioners, decision makers and managers involved with children's hearings who mostly thought it was a positive innovation consistent with the hearing system's commitment to a welfare-based approach. `Fast Track' cases were handled more quickly than others. After two years, however, the policy was discontinued, largely because of negative evidence about re-offending.
Moving the participation agenda forward
- Authors:
- HILL Malcolm, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Children and Society, 18(2), April 2004, pp.77-96.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article outlines the nature of the ESRC Seminar Series. The focus is participation by children and young people as this relates to differing notions of social exclusion and inclusion. This article critically examines participation in the contexts of policy, practice, research and theory. In many respects the environments in each of these domains is supportive of increased participation, yet there is also much evidence of limited impact by recent participative measures and of disillusionment by many young people who have been engaged in consultation and decision-making. A way forward is suggested, which entails collaboration among all the key stakeholders including children and young people, connects participatory and social inclusion aims and mechanisms, and is committed to achieving tangible outcomes based on the wishes of children and young people.
Safeguarding children's interests in welfare proceedings: the Scottish experience
- Authors:
- HILL Malcolm, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 25(1), 2003, pp.1-21.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Safeguarders may be appointed by children's hearings and sheriffs when it is in the interests of the child to do so. The independence of safeguarders is widely supported. However the arrangements for recrruiting monitoring and training are limited and variable.
Safeguarding children in Scotland: the perspectives of children, parents and safeguarders
- Authors:
- HILL Malcolm, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Representing Children, 15(3), 2002, pp.169-183.
- Publisher:
- National Youth Advocacy Service
Reports on a study to describe and evaluate the current use and operation of safeguards in Scotland. The article reports on the views of the safeguarders themselves, and of the children and parents about how well safeguarders carried out their role. The information was largely gathered from questionnaire responses from 88 safeguarders and interviews with 18 safeguarders, 25 children and young people and 22 parents.
Everybody needs good neighbours: an evaluation of an intensive project for families facing eviction
- Authors:
- HILL Malcolm, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Child and Family Social Work, 7(2), May 2002, pp.79-89.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Presents details of a largely qualitative evaluation of an intensive multi-method Project, with a residential component, which aims to help families facing eviction to overcome their housing-related difficulties. The Project was originally set up explicitly to tackle 'anti-social behaviour'. The families served by the Project had a host of other problems related to parenting, with child care and protection issues, addictions and mental health difficulties figuring prominently. Just over half the referrals came from the local authority housing services, with nearly all the remainder coming from the social work department. The majority of families made good progress, but in some cases it proved harder to have an impact on parenting than on tenancy-related matters. Nevertheless, the Project was deemed to have helped some families stay together or be reunited, resulting in substantial financial savings for social work services. Crucial ingredients were good management, stable staff, shared ownership by other agencies, a repertoire of challenging methods, and a holistic approach.
Family placements for adults and children: a double comparison
- Authors:
- HILL Malcolm, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 25(2), April 1995, pp.209-226.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Compares family placements for adults with those for children with special needs. Findings are presented of a postal survey which was carried out in the UK and closely based on a survey undertaken shortly before in the USA and Canada. There were a number of similarities between the programmes for adults and specialist schemes for children, despite their different purposes, origins and contexts. Although outcomes are often good, both types of project have worrying levels of breakdown, whilst a number of adult schemes are precarious in status and resourcing.
Making judgements about parenting: the example of freeing for adoption
- Authors:
- HILL Malcolm, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 22(4), August 1992, pp.373-389.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Social workers are frequently involved in assessments about parenting. These issues are posed in a particularly sharp form when judgements need to be made which may transfer parental rights and responsibilities permanently, as in cases of freeing for adoption. This article draws on a wider evaluation of freeing to identify the key dimensions of parent-child relations which influenced social work and court decisions.
The place of counselling in social work
- Authors:
- HILL Malcolm, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Practice: Social Work in Action, 4(3), 1990, pp.156-172.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Attempts to clarify the extent to which counselling is part of social work, distinguishing between advisory and person orientated roles; and outlines implications for training and management.