Robin Sen
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4422174 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Robin Sen |
| NOMBRES | Robin |
| APELLIDO | Sen |
| FIRMA | SEN R |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3090-8250 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2008 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Sustaining Connection to Promote Challenge and Change
In our first article Tony Stanley and colleagues address the important, and politicised, topic of youth radicalisation, in a New Zealand context. Youth radicalisation refers to young people engaged
Learning from and through experiences of practice to improve them
Accountability and Hyperaccountability in Child Protection Scandals
The number of child abuse–related deaths has decreased significantly in the United Kingdom over the past 50 years, but there remains public and political concern about the actual and perceived risk of child deaths, with resultant processes enacted to supervise child protection practice. Drawing upon an analysis of the ways in which the deaths of two children, Victoria Climbié and Peter Connelly, became child protection scandals in England, we exa…
Different Ways of Seeing, and Thinking About, Social Work Practice
Ethnicity and Child and Family Social Work Practice, Community Resilience in Kashmir and Taiwanese Working Carers
New Writers in 2024
Ontological (In)security in Early Career Social Work during Covid-19
The impact of COVID-19 on the working lives of professionals has been of much interest. Within social work, the pandemic increased workload demands, whilst the way in which work was done shifted significantly. This article uses data gathered from newly qualified social workers (NQSWs) who began their working lives during the pandemic. These first years in practice are viewed as an extension to social workers’ formal education and as a vital stage…
Embedding Learning as a Practice of Value
Across the Global North, professional learning for social workers has become a matter of concern. Efforts to ‘fix’ the problem have focused narrowly on formal methods of learning and show limited connect with recent research. In this article, we report on findings from a mixed-method longitudinal cohort study, which examined early career social workers experiences of learning over the first five years of professional practice. Drawing on a repeat…
Meeting the challenges of participation? Care experienced people’s involvement in social work practice and policy development
Practices That Make a Difference, and Practices That Don’t
Beyond binaries? A call for improved understanding of diverse identities of social work students and practitioners
This article reports on an exploratory study in the UK on the experiences of social work practitioners and students whose minoritised identities may not be obvious to those they interact with in work and university settings. Study is relevant because people increasingly identify in ways that fall outside singular demographic categories and because there is a dearth of research on their experiences to date. Analysis of the qualitative survey data …
Premobile bruising, kinship networks and further evidence of the impacts of Covid-19
Exploring Aspects of Care Systems in Different Contexts and Reflecting on Practice in Child Protection Social Work, and in Social Work Education
The Global Deinstitutionalisation of Care, No Recourse to Public Funds and Self-Care for Social Workers
The End of 2022
A safe place of one’s own? Exploring practice and policy dilemmas in child welfare practice with families waiting for adequate and secure housing
As in many European states, a shortage of housing in England has resulted in some families who are ‘waiting for’ adequate and secure housing in England while also having the ‘weight of’ their children being placed outside their care hanging over them. This paper reports on the development of a practice guidance document that included an online survey with 38 children’s social services practitioners in England regarding their practice experiences …
Social Work under Covid-19
This article presents a thematic analysis of 100 articles which appeared in ‘SW2020 under COVID-19’ online magazine, authored by people with lived experience, practitioners, students and academics. The magazine was founded by an editorial collective of the authors of this article and ran as a free online magazine during the period of the first UK COVID-19 lockdown period (March–July 2020). It contained a far higher proportion of submissions from …
Turning 18 in specialised residential therapeutic care
This article describes research undertaken in 2018 in a therapeutic residential home for young women with multiple and complex needs in out‐of‐home care in England. Based on qualitative interviews with five young women, aged 16–18, and four professionals working with the home, the article analyses the under‐researched leaving care needs and experiences of this group of young women. The findings highlight the tensions between notions of childhood …
The End of the Second Year of Covid-19
Social Work Roles and Tasks in the 2020s
The diversity of job roles and tasks that social workers may fulfil has traditionally been seen as an attractive facet of the profession for both those entering it and for those who are already qua
Frameworks, Decision Making, Pathways and Social Work Practices
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
Reflections on social work 2020 under Covid-19 online magazine
Social Work 2020 under Covid-19 was a free online magazine conceived just before the UK’s Covid-19 full lockdown began, in late March 2020. It ran for five editions until 14 July 2020. In this time it published close to 100 articles from academics, people with lived experience, practitioners and students. It contained a far higher proportion of submissions from the last three groups of contributors than traditional journals. This article draws on…
Exploring the declining rates of state social work intervention in an English local authority using Family Group Conferences
Over the last decade England has seen rising numbers and rates of children in care and subject to child protection intervention. This article draws on national data and quantitative data from a study of ‘City’, a local authority in the north of England with a large Family Group Conference service. In distinction to national trends, City has seen substantial declines in the numbers and rates of children in care and who are subject to child protect…
‘When you're sitting in the room with two people one of whom... has bashed the hell out of the other’
Domestic violence continues to be a primary reason for referrals to state child welfare services in advanced industrialised countries. There is growing concern in many state child welfare services to develop responses to it that are both more effective and more humane. The use of restorative approaches, in particular Family Group Conferences (FGCs), has been suggested as one such response. This article draws from data gathered from an evaluation …
Introduction
The last twenty years have seen major international developments in welfare state support and services for children, parents and families. Increases in provision occurred within established areas such as welfare benefits, family allowances, child welfare services and maternity leave entitlements; and new ‘forms and modalities of provision’ were introduced (Daly et al. , 2015: 10), in particular parental and paternity leave entitlements; welfare-t…
Not All that Is Solid Melts into Air? Care-Experienced Young People, Friendship and Relationships in the ‘Digital Age’
The circumstances of those who are, or have been, in the care system may augment concern about their use of mobile phones and the internet, but little is specifically known about such use. Presenting findings from an exploratory study which investigated the experiences and views of six care leavers and four looked after children, this paper considers their social contact via mobile phones and the internet. Exploration of the study data is located…
Building Relationships in a Cold Climate
Drawing on a case study generated as part of a larger evaluation, this article explores engagement between one family and an ‘edge of care’ intensive family support service, within a cold climate of public spending cuts and rising numbers of children in care. The focus on engagement in the case study illustrates theories about relationship building at the ‘edge of care’: the importance of an empathic relationship; harnessing parents’ agency for c…
Improving Outcomes for Looked after Children
Although UK law and policy favour family and friends care, the number of children placed in kinship care remains low compared to other countries such as the USA and Australia, and there is professional uncertainty as to whether children may be better placed there. This review compares outcomes for looked after children placed in kin and non-kin care and finds stability is achieved more commonly through placement with kin. However, the inherent fa…
Introduction
The last twenty years have seen major international developments in welfare state support and services for children, parents and families. Increases in provision occurred within established areas such as welfare benefits, family allowances, child welfare services and maternity leave entitlements; and new ‘forms and modalities of provision’ were introduced (Daly et al. , 2015: 10), in particular parental and paternity leave entitlements; welfare-t…
Lessons learnt? Abuse in residential child care in Scotland
This paper draws on work carried out by Sen, Kendrick, Milligan and Hawthorn commissioned as pert of the Historic Abuse Systemic Review by the Scottish Executive in 2007. It considers the evidence‐based regarding abuse in residential child care from 1945 with a specific focus on Scotland. It reviews the context set for residential child care post‐1945 by the Clyde and Curtis reports, outlines how the residential child care sector developed follow…
Ontological (In)security in Early Career Social Work during Covid-19
The impact of COVID-19 on the working lives of professionals has been of much interest. Within social work, the pandemic increased workload demands, whilst the way in which work was done shifted significantly. This article uses data gathered from newly qualified social workers (NQSWs) who began their working lives during the pandemic. These first years in practice are viewed as an extension to social workers’ formal education and as a vital stage…
Accountability and Hyperaccountability in Child Protection Scandals
The number of child abuse–related deaths has decreased significantly in the United Kingdom over the past 50 years, but there remains public and political concern about the actual and perceived risk of child deaths, with resultant processes enacted to supervise child protection practice. Drawing upon an analysis of the ways in which the deaths of two children, Victoria Climbié and Peter Connelly, became child protection scandals in England, we exa…
Meeting the challenges of participation? Care experienced people’s involvement in social work practice and policy development
Exploring the declining rates of state social work intervention in an English local authority using Family Group Conferences
Over the last decade England has seen rising numbers and rates of children in care and subject to child protection intervention. This article draws on national data and quantitative data from a study of ‘City’, a local authority in the north of England with a large Family Group Conference service. In distinction to national trends, City has seen substantial declines in the numbers and rates of children in care and who are subject to child protect…
Foster Carers' Involvement in Contact
Legislative and practice guidance in the United Kingdom suggests foster carers are central to effective contact for children in foster care. This article explores the involvement of foster carers in contact between children in their care and their birth parents, drawing on the findings of an in-depth qualitative study of the views and experiences of social workers and Reporters to the Children's Hearing system in one Scottish local authority. Whi…
Lessons learnt? Abuse in residential child care in Scotland
This paper draws on work carried out by Sen, Kendrick, Milligan and Hawthorn commissioned as pert of the Historic Abuse Systemic Review by the Scottish Executive in 2007. It considers the evidence‐based regarding abuse in residential child care from 1945 with a specific focus on Scotland. It reviews the context set for residential child care post‐1945 by the Clyde and Curtis reports, outlines how the residential child care sector developed follow…
Rethinking Residential Child Care, Positive Perspectives
Contact between children in out-of-home placements and their family and friends networks
This paper provides a detailed narrative review of the current knowledge base regarding family contact for children in out-of-home foster, kinship and residential placements. The review considers the research base around the familiar topics of the relationship between contact and outcomes for children, the perspectives of children, parents and carers in respect of contact and contact between siblings. It also discusses research evidence around em…
Foster Carers' Involvement in Contact
Legislative and practice guidance in the United Kingdom suggests foster carers are central to effective contact for children in foster care. This article explores the involvement of foster carers in contact between children in their care and their birth parents, drawing on the findings of an in-depth qualitative study of the views and experiences of social workers and Reporters to the Children's Hearing system in one Scottish local authority. Whi…
In Search of Origins
Improving Outcomes for Looked after Children
Although UK law and policy favour family and friends care, the number of children placed in kinship care remains low compared to other countries such as the USA and Australia, and there is professional uncertainty as to whether children may be better placed there. This review compares outcomes for looked after children placed in kin and non-kin care and finds stability is achieved more commonly through placement with kin. However, the inherent fa…
Building Relationships in a Cold Climate
Drawing on a case study generated as part of a larger evaluation, this article explores engagement between one family and an ‘edge of care’ intensive family support service, within a cold climate of public spending cuts and rising numbers of children in care. The focus on engagement in the case study illustrates theories about relationship building at the ‘edge of care’: the importance of an empathic relationship; harnessing parents’ agency for c…
Introduction
The last twenty years have seen major international developments in welfare state support and services for children, parents and families. Increases in provision occurred within established areas such as welfare benefits, family allowances, child welfare services and maternity leave entitlements; and new ‘forms and modalities of provision’ were introduced (Daly et al. , 2015: 10), in particular parental and paternity leave entitlements; welfare-t…
Some Useful Sources
This useful sources paper provides selective lists of: first, the generic and critical literature about family support; second, the UK policy and practice literature about intensive family support services; third, the international policy and practice literature about intensive family support services; and, finally, a number of web resources
Not All that Is Solid Melts into Air? Care-Experienced Young People, Friendship and Relationships in the ‘Digital Age’
The circumstances of those who are, or have been, in the care system may augment concern about their use of mobile phones and the internet, but little is specifically known about such use. Presenting findings from an exploratory study which investigated the experiences and views of six care leavers and four looked after children, this paper considers their social contact via mobile phones and the internet. Exploration of the study data is located…
‘When you're sitting in the room with two people one of whom... has bashed the hell out of the other’
Domestic violence continues to be a primary reason for referrals to state child welfare services in advanced industrialised countries. There is growing concern in many state child welfare services to develop responses to it that are both more effective and more humane. The use of restorative approaches, in particular Family Group Conferences (FGCs), has been suggested as one such response. This article draws from data gathered from an evaluation …
Exploring the declining rates of state social work intervention in an English local authority using Family Group Conferences
Over the last decade England has seen rising numbers and rates of children in care and subject to child protection intervention. This article draws on national data and quantitative data from a study of ‘City’, a local authority in the north of England with a large Family Group Conference service. In distinction to national trends, City has seen substantial declines in the numbers and rates of children in care and who are subject to child protect…
Reflections on social work 2020 under Covid-19 online magazine
Social Work 2020 under Covid-19 was a free online magazine conceived just before the UK’s Covid-19 full lockdown began, in late March 2020. It ran for five editions until 14 July 2020. In this time it published close to 100 articles from academics, people with lived experience, practitioners and students. It contained a far higher proportion of submissions from the last three groups of contributors than traditional journals. This article draws on…
Turning 18 in specialised residential therapeutic care
This article describes research undertaken in 2018 in a therapeutic residential home for young women with multiple and complex needs in out‐of‐home care in England. Based on qualitative interviews with five young women, aged 16–18, and four professionals working with the home, the article analyses the under‐researched leaving care needs and experiences of this group of young women. The findings highlight the tensions between notions of childhood …
The End of the Second Year of Covid-19
Social Work Roles and Tasks in the 2020s
The diversity of job roles and tasks that social workers may fulfil has traditionally been seen as an attractive facet of the profession for both those entering it and for those who are already qua
Frameworks, Decision Making, Pathways and Social Work Practices
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
The Global Deinstitutionalisation of Care, No Recourse to Public Funds and Self-Care for Social Workers
The End of 2022
A safe place of one’s own? Exploring practice and policy dilemmas in child welfare practice with families waiting for adequate and secure housing
As in many European states, a shortage of housing in England has resulted in some families who are ‘waiting for’ adequate and secure housing in England while also having the ‘weight of’ their children being placed outside their care hanging over them. This paper reports on the development of a practice guidance document that included an online survey with 38 children’s social services practitioners in England regarding their practice experiences …
Social Work under Covid-19
This article presents a thematic analysis of 100 articles which appeared in ‘SW2020 under COVID-19’ online magazine, authored by people with lived experience, practitioners, students and academics. The magazine was founded by an editorial collective of the authors of this article and ran as a free online magazine during the period of the first UK COVID-19 lockdown period (March–July 2020). It contained a far higher proportion of submissions from …
Beyond binaries? A call for improved understanding of diverse identities of social work students and practitioners
This article reports on an exploratory study in the UK on the experiences of social work practitioners and students whose minoritised identities may not be obvious to those they interact with in work and university settings. Study is relevant because people increasingly identify in ways that fall outside singular demographic categories and because there is a dearth of research on their experiences to date. Analysis of the qualitative survey data …
Premobile bruising, kinship networks and further evidence of the impacts of Covid-19
Exploring Aspects of Care Systems in Different Contexts and Reflecting on Practice in Child Protection Social Work, and in Social Work Education
Ethnicity and Child and Family Social Work Practice, Community Resilience in Kashmir and Taiwanese Working Carers
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