Michael Preston-Shoot
Biographic Data
| ID | 214906 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Preston-Shoot |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Preston-Shoot |
| SIGNATURE | PRESTON-SHOOT M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bedfordshire |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9347-0524 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 58 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 211 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 58 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Human stories about self-neglect: Told, untold, untellable and unheard narratives in safeguarding adult reviews
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to update the core data set of self-neglect safeguarding adult reviews (SARs) and accompanying thematic analysis. The initial data set was published in this journal in 2015 and has since been updated annually. The complete data set is available from the author. The second purpose is to reflect on the narratives about adult safeguarding and self-neglect by focusing on the stories that are told and untold in the…
Hope springs: Further learning on self-neglect from safeguarding adult reviews and practice
Purpose The first purpose of this paper is to update the core data set of self-neglect safeguarding adult reviews (SAR) and accompanying thematic analysis. A second purpose is to rebalance the narrative about adult safeguarding and self-neglect by highlighting two case studies where the practice was informed by SAR and the evidence-base of best practice. Design/methodology/approach Further published reviews are added to the core data set, drawn f…
Learning from safeguarding adult reviews about Transitional Safeguarding: Building an evidence base
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to set out the evidence base to date for Transitional Safeguarding to support authors of Safeguarding Adult Reviews (SARs) where Transitional Safeguarding is a key theme in the review. Design/methodology/approach This paper draws on key evidence from several published sources about Transitional Safeguarding in England. This evidence is presented in this paper as a framework for analysis to support SAR authors.…
On (not) learning from self-neglect safeguarding adult reviews
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to update the core data set of self-neglect safeguarding adult reviews (SARs) and accompanying thematic analysis. It also explores whether lessons are being learned from the findings and recommendations of an increasing number of reviews on self-neglect cases. Design/methodology/approach Further published reviews are added to the core data set, mainly drawn from the websites of safeguarding adults boards (SABs…
Safeguarding Adults Together under the Care Act 2014: A Multi-Agency Practice Guide, Barbara Starns
This slim volume contains nine chapters and eight appendices. It is written for a multi-professional and multidisciplinary readership. An introduction to safeguarding under the Care Act 2014 is followed by chapters that define adult safeguarding and explain how safeguarding works. Making Safeguarding Personal is a theme that, rightly, permeates the entire book besides the chapter that focuses specifically on this practice principle. Chapters foll…
Safeguarding adult reviews: Informing and enriching policy and practice on self-neglect
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to update the core data set of self-neglect safeguarding adult reviews (SARs) and accompanying thematic analysis and explore the degree to which SARs draw upon available research and learning from other completed reviews. Design/methodology/approach Further published reviews are added to the core data set, mainly drawn from the websites of Safeguarding Adults Boards (SABs). Thematic analysis is updated using t…
Self-Neglect and Hoarding: A Guide to Safeguarding and Support
Self-neglect and safeguarding adult reviews: Towards a model of understanding facilitators and barriers to best practice
Purpose The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to update the core data set of self-neglect safeguarding adult reviews (SARs) and accompanying thematic analysis; second, to draw together the learning available from this data set of reviews to propose a model of good practice that can be used as the basis for subsequent SARs. Design/methodology/approach Further published reviews are added to the core data set from the websites of Safeguarding…
Making any difference? Conceptualising the impact of safeguarding adults boards
Purpose Criticisms of the effectiveness of Local Safeguarding Children Boards (LSCBs) led to legislative reform in the shape of the Children and Social Work Act 2017. Given parallels between the mandates for LSCBs and Safeguarding Adults Boards (SABs), the onus is on SABs to demonstrate their effectiveness. The purpose of this paper is to explore how SABs might more effectively demonstrate their impact across the range of their mandated responsib…
Meaning in hoarding: Perspectives of People Who Hoard on Clutter, Culture and Agency
Hoarding has become increasingly prominent in clinical practice and popular culture in recent years, giving rise to extensive research and commentary. Critical responses in the social sciences have criticised the cultural assumptions built in to the construct of 'hoarding disorder' and expressed fears that it may generate stigma outweighing its benefits; however, few of these studies have engaged directly with 'hoarders' themselves. This paper re…
Learning from safeguarding adult reviews on self-neglect: Addressing the challenge of change
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to update the core data set of self-neglect safeguarding adult reviews (SARs) and accompanying thematic analysis, and to address the challenge of change, exploring the necessary components beyond an action plan to ensure that findings and recommendations are embedded in policy and practice. Design/methodology/approach Further published reviews are added to the core data set from the websites of Safeguarding Ad…
Autonomy and Protection in Self-neglect Work: The Ethical Complexity of Decision-making
Self-neglect, in which an individual does not attend to their hygiene, health or home surroundings, is one of the most challenging aspects of adult social care practice. In England, its inclusion within the remit of adult safeguarding, as a result of changes in adult social care law introduced under the Care Act 2014, has thrown into relief the ethical dilemmas arising from tensions between respect for autonomy on the one hand and the exercise of…
On self-neglect and safeguarding adult reviews: Diminishing returns or adding value
Purpose The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to update the core data set of self-neglect serious case reviews (SCRs) and safeguarding adult reviews (SARs), and accompanying thematic analysis; second, to respond to the critique in the Wood Report of SCRs commissioned by Local Safeguarding Children Boards (LSCBs) by exploring the degree to which the reviews scrutinised here can transform and improve the quality of adult safeguarding practic…
The Care Act 2014: A new legal framework for safeguarding adults in civil society
The Care Act 2014: a new legal framework for safeguarding adults in civil society Many of us may be able to remember the general air of excitement that surrounded the writing and publishing of "No Secrets" (Department of Health, 2000) and "In Safe Hands" (Welsh Assembly Government, 2000), although we might wish we were young enough not to! At the time, the documents generated mixed feelings amongst service users/customers and carers as well as pr…
Towards explanations for the findings of serious case reviews: Understanding what happens in self-neglect work
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to draw on systemic and psychodynamic theories to subject published serious case reviews (SCRs) involving self-neglect to a deeper level of scrutiny, in order to understand how complex contexts impact on self-neglect work. It also updates the dataset of self-neglect SCRs and accompanying thematic analysis. Design/methodology/approach – Psychodynamic and systemic ideas are applied to the content of published …
Legal Bases of Social Work
Serious case review findings on the challenges of self-neglect: Indicators for good practice
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse in detail the findings from 40 serious case reviews (SCRs) involving adults who self-neglect, and to consider the commissioning and reporting of such inquiries in the context of accountability that also involves the Coroner and the Local Government Ombudsman. Design/methodology/approach – This study comprised a cross-case analysis of 32 SCRs, using a four-layer design of the adult and their living…
Learning lessons about self-neglect? An analysis of serious case reviews
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report the findings from research into 40 serious case reviews (SCRs) involving adults who self-neglect. Design/methodology/approach – The study comprised analysis of 40 SCRs where self-neglect featured. The reviews were found through detailed searching of Local Safeguarding Adult Board (LSAB) web sites and through contacts with Board managers and independent chairs. A four layer analysis is presented of …
Making Good Decisions
Paternalism or proportionality? Experiences and outcomes of the Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act 2007
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report the findings from research into the outcomes of adult protection in Scotland, with particular focus on how service users, family members and service delivery professionals perceive the effectiveness of the protection orders in the Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act 2007. Design/methodology/approach – The study comprised analysis of Adult Protection Committee biennial reports on implementat…
Governance in adult safeguarding in Scotland since the implementation of the Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act 2007
Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to report the findings from research into the governance of adult protection in Scotland, with particular focus on the outcomes of provision for multi-agency leadership and management of adult safeguarding in the Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act 2007. Comparisons will be drawn between these findings and the evidence on the governance of adult safeguarding in England. Design/methodology/approach – T…
Exploring UK medical and social work students’ legal literacy: Comparisons, contrasts and implications
To ensure acceptable practice standards both doctors and social workers should draw on relevant legal rules when reaching professional judgements concerning, for instance, children requiring protection, people with severe mental distress and adults at risk, information sharing, consent to intervention and service user involvement in their care and treatment. Many practitioners use the law to maintain high standards of professionalism. However, re…
The governance of adult safeguarding: Findings from research
Purpose The purpose of this article is to report the findings from research into the governance of adult safeguarding policy and practice in England, with particular focus on interagency partnership arrangements expressed through Safeguarding Adults Boards. Design/methodology/approach The study comprised a systematic search and thematic analysis of English‐language literature on adult safeguarding governance, a survey of Safeguarding Adults Board…
The Secret Curriculum
In medical education, where law and ethics are often taught simultaneously, a hidden or silent curriculum emerges strongly from research-based and descriptive reviews of practice experienced by students and qualified practitioners. In social work education, where law and ethics are more commonly taught separately, specific reference to such a curriculum does not emerge from the literature. However, evidence from reviews of social work practice po…
Conceptualising and responding to self‐neglect: The challenges for adult safeguarding
Purpose The research reported here aims to scope the concept of self‐neglect as it is explored in the literature and interpreted in practice by professionals involved in adult safeguarding. Design/methodology/approach The approach taken included a systematic search and thematic analysis of English‐language literature on self‐neglect, workshops with UK‐based adult safeguarding leads and practitioners from social services, police and health service…
Shards of the old looking glass: Restoring the significance of identity in promoting positive outcomes for looked‐after children
There is a driving force within current UK child welfare policies which promotes a strengths led approach to both assessment and care planning for children in need. Social policy emphasizes the importance of tangible outcomes such as education achievement, which have been enshrined in statute. However, other developmental outcomes, such as identity, are subordinated. Notwithstanding the relevance of these more concrete indicators, this paper sugg…
Learning from safeguarding adult reviews on self-neglect: Addressing the challenge of change
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to update the core data set of self-neglect safeguarding adult reviews (SARs) and accompanying thematic analysis, and to address the challenge of change, exploring the necessary components beyond an action plan to ensure that findings and recommendations are embedded in policy and practice. Design/methodology/approach Further published reviews are added to the core data set from the websites of Safeguarding Ad…
On administrative evil-doing within social work policy and services: Law, ethics and practice
This paper explores further the disjunction between espoused professional ethics and ethics in practice, and between law in statute and law in action, the evidence for which was presented in a previous article in this journal. It considers explanations for this disjunction, or corruption of care, including the concept of administrative evil-doing, and reviews the challenges facing social work practitioners, educators and managers when providing e…
Paternalism or proportionality? Experiences and outcomes of the Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act 2007
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report the findings from research into the outcomes of adult protection in Scotland, with particular focus on how service users, family members and service delivery professionals perceive the effectiveness of the protection orders in the Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act 2007. Design/methodology/approach – The study comprised analysis of Adult Protection Committee biennial reports on implementat…
Constructing resilience: Social workers’ understandings and practice
Concepts and constructions of resilience have assumed a significant position in contributing to understandings of the psychosocial development of children and young people. This paper examines how concepts of resilience are constructed within the literature, and then explores social workers' perceptions and use of resilience with young people who were 'looked after' or at risk of becoming 'looked after'. It addresses the interface between social …
Whose Project is it Anyway? Sharing and shaping the research and development agenda
The NHS and Community Care Act 1990 (NHSCCA) requires that local authorities should consult with service users in their review and planning of services. This requirement is open to various levels of interpretation. The exercise becomes more complex when planning and review are based on a funded research project, in which the voice of users can easily be lost or their participation only nominal. This article examines some of the key issues and dil…
Learning lessons about self-neglect? An analysis of serious case reviews
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report the findings from research into 40 serious case reviews (SCRs) involving adults who self-neglect. Design/methodology/approach – The study comprised analysis of 40 SCRs where self-neglect featured. The reviews were found through detailed searching of Local Safeguarding Adult Board (LSAB) web sites and through contacts with Board managers and independent chairs. A four layer analysis is presented of …
Whose lives and whose learning? Whose narratives and whose writing? Taking the next research and literature steps with experts by experience
English This article reviews the barriers that impact on the involvement of ‘experts by experience’ in research and in publishing. It charts how their views are generally reported through others and how their roles are often limited to particular aspects of the research process. Drawing on work within several research and social work education projects, and journal editorship, the article also explores practices that contribute to further change …
Accountability, administrative law and social work practice: Redressing or reinforcing the power imbalance
Accountability in social care services involves a complex web of obligations to different stakeholders whose demands are not necessarily compatible. This article locates administrative law within the range of mechanisms for ensuring accountability, and evaluates its contribution. It is argued that, in the current policy context, some forms of accountability are promoted over others, and that accountabilities to service users and to professional c…
Self-neglect and safeguarding adult reviews: Towards a model of understanding facilitators and barriers to best practice
Purpose The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to update the core data set of self-neglect safeguarding adult reviews (SARs) and accompanying thematic analysis; second, to draw together the learning available from this data set of reviews to propose a model of good practice that can be used as the basis for subsequent SARs. Design/methodology/approach Further published reviews are added to the core data set from the websites of Safeguarding…
Towards explanations for the findings of serious case reviews: Understanding what happens in self-neglect work
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to draw on systemic and psychodynamic theories to subject published serious case reviews (SCRs) involving self-neglect to a deeper level of scrutiny, in order to understand how complex contexts impact on self-neglect work. It also updates the dataset of self-neglect SCRs and accompanying thematic analysis. Design/methodology/approach – Psychodynamic and systemic ideas are applied to the content of published …
Serious case review findings on the challenges of self-neglect: Indicators for good practice
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse in detail the findings from 40 serious case reviews (SCRs) involving adults who self-neglect, and to consider the commissioning and reporting of such inquiries in the context of accountability that also involves the Coroner and the Local Government Ombudsman. Design/methodology/approach – This study comprised a cross-case analysis of 32 SCRs, using a four-layer design of the adult and their living…
The Secret Curriculum
In medical education, where law and ethics are often taught simultaneously, a hidden or silent curriculum emerges strongly from research-based and descriptive reviews of practice experienced by students and qualified practitioners. In social work education, where law and ethics are more commonly taught separately, specific reference to such a curriculum does not emerge from the literature. However, evidence from reviews of social work practice po…
Emerging from out of the shadows? Service user and carer involvement in systematic reviews
English The systematic review methodology literature refers to the importance of involving stakeholders, including service users and carers, in the research. However, compared with other aspects of the methodology, this aspect of conducting systematic reviews is underdeveloped and the practice of involvement appears highly variable. This article draws on the experience of working with service users and carers in one systematic review to review th…
Partners in community care? Rethinking the relationship between the law and social work practice
The relationship between law and social work practice is complex and confusing. Attempts to define it have identified stereotypical assumptions and divergent purposes. Recent community care legislation, however, in speaking the language of partnership and empowerment, has resonated with the current concerns of professional social work and thus has opened the way for further exploration. This article takes as a starting point two of the major chal…
Safeguarding adult reviews: Informing and enriching policy and practice on self-neglect
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to update the core data set of self-neglect safeguarding adult reviews (SARs) and accompanying thematic analysis and explore the degree to which SARs draw upon available research and learning from other completed reviews. Design/methodology/approach Further published reviews are added to the core data set, mainly drawn from the websites of Safeguarding Adults Boards (SABs). Thematic analysis is updated using t…
Autonomy and Protection in Self-neglect Work: The Ethical Complexity of Decision-making
Self-neglect, in which an individual does not attend to their hygiene, health or home surroundings, is one of the most challenging aspects of adult social care practice. In England, its inclusion within the remit of adult safeguarding, as a result of changes in adult social care law introduced under the Care Act 2014, has thrown into relief the ethical dilemmas arising from tensions between respect for autonomy on the one hand and the exercise of…
The governance of adult safeguarding: Findings from research
Purpose The purpose of this article is to report the findings from research into the governance of adult safeguarding policy and practice in England, with particular focus on interagency partnership arrangements expressed through Safeguarding Adults Boards. Design/methodology/approach The study comprised a systematic search and thematic analysis of English‐language literature on adult safeguarding governance, a survey of Safeguarding Adults Board…
Conceptualising and responding to self‐neglect: The challenges for adult safeguarding
Purpose The research reported here aims to scope the concept of self‐neglect as it is explored in the literature and interpreted in practice by professionals involved in adult safeguarding. Design/methodology/approach The approach taken included a systematic search and thematic analysis of English‐language literature on self‐neglect, workshops with UK‐based adult safeguarding leads and practitioners from social services, police and health service…
Broadening the vision: Law teaching, social work and civil society
English In the context of debates about social work’s relationship with individuals, the state and civil society, educators face a challenge. How best to ensure that professional education prepares practitioners to engage with the task of promoting social justice and human rights? This article draws on a systematic knowledge review of learning, teaching and assessment of one key subject area in social work education - that of law - to explore the…
Closing the Circle: Social Workers' Responses to Multi-Agency Procedures on Older Age Abuse
Journal Article Closing the Circle: Social Workers' Responses to Multi‐Agency Procedures on Older Age Abuse Get access Michael Preston‐Shoot, Michael Preston‐Shoot Correspondence to Professor Michael Preston‐Shoot, School of Law and Applied Social Studies, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, L7 4DN, UK. E‐mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Veronica Wigley Veronica Wig…
Evaluating self‐determination: An adult protection case study
Self‐determination is widely regarded as a core social work value and as central to work in adult protection. However, it is not unproblematic and raises difficult questions about how to balance empowerment and protection, or rights and risks. Inter‐agency procedures and the recent publication of policy guidance may reflect these difficult questions rather than assist practitioners and managers to resolve practice dilemmas they encounter
Social work law: From interaction to integration
This article argues that a new academic discipline has emerged, social work law, whose function is to describe and analyse the relationship between, and integration of, law and social work practice. It distinguishes between social work law and social welfare law, and identifies three distinct but inter-related strands within the subject area. The articulation of a theoretical base and conceptual frame for social work law will better equip social …
Meaning in hoarding: Perspectives of People Who Hoard on Clutter, Culture and Agency
Hoarding has become increasingly prominent in clinical practice and popular culture in recent years, giving rise to extensive research and commentary. Critical responses in the social sciences have criticised the cultural assumptions built in to the construct of 'hoarding disorder' and expressed fears that it may generate stigma outweighing its benefits; however, few of these studies have engaged directly with 'hoarders' themselves. This paper re…
On the evidence for viruses in social work systems: Law, ethics and practice
The purpose of this paper is to explore an apparent disjunction between espoused professional ethics and ethics in practice, and between law in statute and law in action. Social work in England is used as the main case study, however, research from other jurisdictions is drawn upon to demonstrate wider concern about departures from moral and legal rules. The evidence of the disjunction is presented, drawing principally from judicial review cases,…
Evaluating the effectiveness of practice
Social workers have been criticised for neglecting to evaluate the effectiveness of their practice. This paper describes a step-by-step model of an evaluative approach and provides three practice examples to demonstrate how the model can be used. The authors' concern is to argue that social workers should adopt an evaluative approach to their work and to provide a model which builds on familiar practice skills in order to convey a sense of its fe…
Social work practice with sexually abused children and foster parents michael
This study reported here was undertaken to determine the probability of malignancy in patients presenting with unexplained lymphadenopathy in primary care practice and to estimate the effectiveness of current referral patterns by family physicians in relation to malignant disease. Clinical characteristics that may be discriminatory for malignant causes were also investigated. A retrospective analysis was performed of 82 patients who underwent bio…
Managing the personal experience of work
Social work is stressful. Practice dilemmas leave those who work in welfare organisations vulnerable to public censure and misunderstanding; struggling to connect theories of ideal practice with agency-based realities; and responsible for acting on judgements of need which can never eliminate risk and only rarely satisfy all the parties involved. Practitioners, managers and their organisations, in order to cope with the anxiety engendered by thei…
Honourable intentions: Partnership and written agreements in welfare legislation
Written agreements between service providers and service users are a central feature of new social welfare legislation. This article locates them within the ideology of partnership, examines the problematic expectations of their usefulness, and offers key principles for their appropriate location in the relationship between the state and its citizens
Partners in community care? Rethinking the relationship between the law and social work practice
The relationship between law and social work practice is complex and confusing. Attempts to define it have identified stereotypical assumptions and divergent purposes. Recent community care legislation, however, in speaking the language of partnership and empowerment, has resonated with the current concerns of professional social work and thus has opened the way for further exploration. This article takes as a starting point two of the major chal…
Whose Project is it Anyway? Sharing and shaping the research and development agenda
The NHS and Community Care Act 1990 (NHSCCA) requires that local authorities should consult with service users in their review and planning of services. This requirement is open to various levels of interpretation. The exercise becomes more complex when planning and review are based on a funded research project, in which the voice of users can easily be lost or their participation only nominal. This article examines some of the key issues and dil…
Contesting the contradictions: Needs, resources and community care decisions
This article reviews the interrelationship between resources and needs in community care guidance and practice. It re-examines judicial review decisions which have considered the extent to which resources may influence the planning and practice decisions made by local authorities. It questions whether service users might find a more effective challenge to community care decisions through scrutinizing how their needs have been defined. It evaluate…
Working together in social work law
An earlier article identified and described the emergence of a new academic discipline - social work law. In identifying the unique relationship between social workers and the law, and the dilemmas this creates, it concluded by suggesting that social workers and lawyers should create a shared language. This article considers their relationship and how the constituent elements of social work law can be made accessible in order that participants ca…
Social work law: From interaction to integration
This article argues that a new academic discipline has emerged, social work law, whose function is to describe and analyse the relationship between, and integration of, law and social work practice. It distinguishes between social work law and social welfare law, and identifies three distinct but inter-related strands within the subject area. The articulation of a theoretical base and conceptual frame for social work law will better equip social …
Accountability, administrative law and social work practice: Redressing or reinforcing the power imbalance
Accountability in social care services involves a complex web of obligations to different stakeholders whose demands are not necessarily compatible. This article locates administrative law within the range of mechanisms for ensuring accountability, and evaluates its contribution. It is argued that, in the current policy context, some forms of accountability are promoted over others, and that accountabilities to service users and to professional c…
What if? Using the law to uphold practice values and standards
Social workers may be asked to practise in ways which they consider to be unlawful or contrary to best practice as defined through reference to values and knowledge. How might they respond? This article explores how far legal knowledge can support practitioners who are concerned about systems operated by, and decisions taken by their employing authorities. Can the law assist those practitioners who are committed to seeking to challenge and change…
Regulating the road of good intentions: Observations on the relationship between policy, regulations and practice in social work
Regulation of social work practice is increasing but so too is evidence that directions, guidance and procedures are inconsistently applied. This article identifies some of the reasons behind the growing attempt to regulate for quality. It explores why regulations and policy guidance might be insufficient to ensure lawful practice or to promote high standards of care, and concludes with arguments for a greater dialogue between policy makers, mana…
Evaluating self‐determination: An adult protection case study
Self‐determination is widely regarded as a core social work value and as central to work in adult protection. However, it is not unproblematic and raises difficult questions about how to balance empowerment and protection, or rights and risks. Inter‐agency procedures and the recent publication of policy guidance may reflect these difficult questions rather than assist practitioners and managers to resolve practice dilemmas they encounter
Values in social work law: Strained relations or sustaining relationships
This article considers the relationship between social work values and the law, focusing on the second component of the definition of social work law (Preston-Shoot et al., 1998). It considers the location of values in social work practice and in law, and explores areas of convergence and divergence. Implications of the introduction into English law of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms are addressed
A Triumph of Hope over Experience? Modernizing Accountability: The Case of Complaints Procedures in Community Care
Complaints procedures are one component of maintaining and improving the quality of community care services. However, how effective are they in providing a means of redress for service users? This article presents the findings from four research projects, which included complaints procedures in their survey of service users’ experiences of community care provision. These findings are compared with the outcomes of similar research projects. The ar…
Closing the Circle: Social Workers' Responses to Multi-Agency Procedures on Older Age Abuse
Journal Article Closing the Circle: Social Workers' Responses to Multi‐Agency Procedures on Older Age Abuse Get access Michael Preston‐Shoot, Michael Preston‐Shoot Correspondence to Professor Michael Preston‐Shoot, School of Law and Applied Social Studies, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, L7 4DN, UK. E‐mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Veronica Wigley Veronica Wig…
A Matter of record
This paper reviews literature and research evidence which suggest that recording remains a residual activity in social work practice. It warns of the dangers of, and explores some possible reasons for social work's apparent failure to respond to standards of, and values underpinning good recording practice. The paper concludes by suggesting that recording practice may not improve until policy-makers, managers and trainers appreciate and respond t…
On Systematic Reviews in Social Work: Observations from Teaching, Learning and Assessment of Law in Social Work Education
This paper draws on the experience of completing a systematic review of teaching,learning and assessment of law in social work education. It reviews core elements of the process and questions whether systematic reviews as currently conceived for social work education and practice can realize the claims advanced on their behalf. The paper considers questions of evidence, quality, knowledge, dissemination and research use, and offers observations o…
Emerging from out of the shadows? Service user and carer involvement in systematic reviews
English The systematic review methodology literature refers to the importance of involving stakeholders, including service users and carers, in the research. However, compared with other aspects of the methodology, this aspect of conducting systematic reviews is underdeveloped and the practice of involvement appears highly variable. This article draws on the experience of working with service users and carers in one systematic review to review th…
Mapping the Needs of Children in Need
This paper reviews the literature on mapping needs, with particular reference to children in need, and locates this within the legal mandate for children’s services planning and New Labour’s modernization policies for social care work. The paper surveys possible approaches to mapping needs and highlights the challenges involved. One research project, which collected information on children in need from a variety of different agencies within one g…
In Memory of Jo Campling
The death of Jo Campling earlier this year was a shock, not simply because it was premature despite her recent illness, but also because she has been an enduring and sustained presence for so many
The role of law in welfare reform: Critical perspectives on the relationship between law and social work practice
This article considers the complex relationships between law, welfare policy and social work practice, in order to address the question of what role legal frameworks might play in achieving welfare policy and professional practice goals. It traces how law has developed as a core component of professional practice, and challenges some of the false expectations placed upon it. It then draws on findings from an international knowledge review of law …
Broadening the vision: Law teaching, social work and civil society
English In the context of debates about social work’s relationship with individuals, the state and civil society, educators face a challenge. How best to ensure that professional education prepares practitioners to engage with the task of promoting social justice and human rights? This article draws on a systematic knowledge review of learning, teaching and assessment of one key subject area in social work education - that of law - to explore the…
Jo Campling: An Appreciation
Whose lives and whose learning? Whose narratives and whose writing? Taking the next research and literature steps with experts by experience
English This article reviews the barriers that impact on the involvement of ‘experts by experience’ in research and in publishing. It charts how their views are generally reported through others and how their roles are often limited to particular aspects of the research process. Drawing on work within several research and social work education projects, and journal editorship, the article also explores practices that contribute to further change …
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