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Child protection, social work and the media: doing as well as being done to
- Author:
- JONES Ray
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 29(2), 2012, pp.83-94.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
2008-2010 was an exceptional time of considerable media coverage of child protection and social work in the United Kingdom, much of it negative, and some of it personally targeted on individual social workers. The cluster of media stories included the deaths of ‘Baby Peter Connelly’ and Khyra Ishaq, the kidnapping of Shannon Matthews, and the extreme assaults on two young boys in Edlington, Doncaster. Based on the author’s personal engagement with the media, this article illustrates that the clustering of stories also gave the opportunity to seek to shape the media and editorial coverage and to explain the realities and complexities of seeking to protect children and of social work. (Edited publisher abstract)
History and hindrance: the impact of change and churn on integrating health and social care
- Author:
- JONES Ray
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 28(3), 2011, pp.199-206.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
Over the last 40 years progressive UK governments have sought to close the divide between health and social care services. This divide has existed since the 1940s when the welfare state was first being developed. Since the 1970s, various mechanisms have been introduced to get these services working better together. Since the late 1990s, there have been moves to integrate the services organisationally, but in 2010, this still remains a largely unachieved ambition for all political parties. This article suggests that existing government-demanded NHS and local government reorganisations have been major hurdles to this integration. They have disrupted local commitment to bring health and social care services together. The author concludes that centrally-imposed organisational change have undermined local health and social care integration, and this failing must be addressed.
Engagement and empowerment, research and relevance: comments on user controlled research
- Authors:
- EVANS Claire, JONES Ray
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 22(2), 2004, pp.5-13.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
Based on their shared experiences of engagement in research, from the perspective of a disabled person as a commissioner of research and as a researcher, and a non-disabled person as a researcher and service manager, issues of service user engagement and empowerment in and through research, and how this enriches and makes research more relevant, are explored. Examples are given of how user-led research has had an impact on national local policy and practice.