Jill Manthorpe
Biographic Data
| ID | 235342 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jill Manthorpe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jill |
| FAMILY NAME | Manthorpe |
| SIGNATURE | MANTHORPE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9006-1410 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 304 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 758 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 304 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Social Workers and Gambling Harms? Evaluating an Initiative in Three English Local Authorities
We report on the evaluation phase of a study which developed questions to identify people who were affected by gambling harms for use in adult social care services and piloted them in three English local authorities. The questions were designed to identify those affected by gambling harms, including family or friends of those who gamble. The evaluation involved interviews with staff and service users ( n = 28) assessing the acceptability, feasibi…
Precarious Capital
Research investigating the experiences of women experiencing homelessness often highlights the prevalence of (sexual/domestic) violence and abuse in their trajectories. Drawing on observations across a sample of English statutory and voluntary sector homelessness services and 60 semi-structured interviews with practitioners and with women with homelessness experiences, this study explores these experiences of gender-based violence and the relatio…
Unveiling the Economic Implications of Gaps in Responses to Self‐Neglect
This paper explores the economic implications of different support scenarios for individuals who self‐neglect whilst experiencing multiple exclusion homelessness (MEH) or hoarding behaviour (HB). It draws on analysis of six Safeguarding Adults Reviews (SARs) of self‐neglect‐related deaths from across English localities. Focused on the last one or 2 years of an individual’s life, the SARs provide a detailed examination of resource utilisation acro…
The effectiveness of mindfulness-based interventions on improving social workers’ mental health
This paper reports the findings of an updated systematic review on the evidence for the effectiveness of mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) on social workers’ mental health. We addressed two research questions: (RQ1): What are the effects of MBI on social workers’ stress, burnout, mental wellbeing, coping, and resilience? (RQ2): What is the effective structure of MBIs in relation to these outcomes? The review searched seven databases for peer…
Giving voice by doing with not doing through
There is a dearth of qualitative research into deafblind people’s experiences, impoverishing our understanding of the phenomenon and contributing to deafblind people’s social exclusion. As an approach which seeks to amplify the perspectives of participants from so called ‘vulnerable groups’, interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) appears ideally suited to qualitative research exploring the experiences of the deafblind population. However,…
Representing the Social Problem of Dementia
Dementia is represented as a condition deserving urgent policy attention. In the United Kingdom (UK) substantial resources have been invested in it, including in earlier intervention and in basic science. This selective narrative review explores England’s national dementia policy and practices. It uses Bacchi’s framework of questions, grounded in a Foucauldian understanding of governmentality, to understand how policy initiatives, service re-orie…
Challenging times for early career social workers during the Covid-19 pandemic
The social work profession’s future lies largely in the hands of early career professionals (those working two years or less post-qualification). Their intentions to remain in the profession and their wellbeing affect their performance and system functioning. While the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic changed social work practice, its impact on early career social workers needs specific exploration. Repeated cross-sectional surveys we…
The challenge of scaling-up social work innovations
Innovation is routinely presented as a response to pressure on public services. This article considers the development of Shared Lives (SL) schemes in English adult social care (ASC), a model of care that has been consistently promoted as innovative. SL seeks to replicate ‘ordinary family life’ for adults who need support. Evidence of positive outcomes for people supported, and of cost-effectiveness compared to other models, has attracted the att…
The Potential for Experienced Occupational Health Professionals in Encouraging Recruitment to the Field in England
Background: The United Kingdom (UK) population is experiencing high levels of economic inactivity due to long‐term sickness absence. Concurrently, the occupational health (OH) workforce, which plays an important role in assisting people back to work and maintaining their health and well‐being at work, is declining in numbers and struggling to recruit. The study aim was to explore the role that experienced OH professionals (OHPs) can play in encou…
The 2018 James Lind alliance adult social work priority setting partnership report
The James Lind Alliance (JLA) is a nonprofit United Kingdom (UK) organization that builds a set of research priorities for any given topic through the systematic involvement of practitioners, service users, carers, and stakeholders. In 2021/2022, we reviewed the impact of the JLA priority setting partnership (PSP) on adult social work research (2018). Our research question was “How has social work research responded to and changed since the 2018 …
Development of a decision‐support framework to support professionals and promote comfort among older hospital inpatients living with dementia
BACKGROUND: Acute hospital wards can be difficult places for many people living with dementia. Promoting comfort and wellbeing can be challenging in this environment. There is little evidence-based support for professionals working on acute care wards on how to respond to distress and maximise comfort and wellbeing among patients living with dementia. OBJECTIVES: Our overall aim was to codesign an evidence-based easy-to-use heuristic decision-sup…
Safe Staffing and Workload Management in Social Work
In Northern Ireland, social work-specific legislation is planned for safe staffing across the governmental sector. As part of a broader research project to inform this development, we conducted a scoping review seeking examples of safe staffing definitions, safe staffing-related legislation, policy and practice in social work and associated professions from the UK and internationally. We searched English language databases in 2023 websites and re…
Perceptions of Safe Staffing, Self-Reported Mental Well-being and Intentions to Leave the Profession among UK Social Workers
The purpose of this study was to examine social workers’ perceptions of safe staffing levels and correlate these perceptions with standardised measurements of well-being in the UK. This cross-sectional mixed-methods study analysed data from 406 social workers from November 2022 until late January 2023. Data were collected using anonymous online surveys including both qualitative and quantitative methods examining mental well-being, burnout and in…
Covid-19 Impact on Children’s Social Work Practice and Social Worker Well-being
Social workers were heavily impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. In this study, we examined the well-being, burnout and work conditions of UK children’s social workers at five time points of the COVID-19 pandemic. This was a cross-sectional mixed methods study analysing data from 1,621 social workers who worked in children’s services in the UK in 2020–2022. Data were collected using anonymous online surveys which included both quantitative and qual…
Working conditions and well-being in UK social care and social work during Covid-19
Stress and mental health are among the biggest causes of sickness absence in the UK, with the Social Work and Social Care sectors having among the highest levels of stress and mental health sickness absence of all professions in the UK. Chronically poor working conditions are known to impact employees' psychological and physiological health. The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has affected both the mode and method of work in Social Care and Socia…
Vulnerability among older people ageing with deafblindness
Vulnerability is an underexamined concept in social work. Scholarly activity principally concentrates on policy analysis and theoretical debate; less attention is given to lived experience of vulnerability from the perspectives of particular groups, impoverishing understanding of the phenomenon. This article presents findings from the first United Kingdom-based study of the lived experience of vulnerability from the perspectives of older deafblin…
From Starmer's scuffle to the Siege of Ottawa
This article discusses the energy and aggressiveness of the campaigns against mitigating transmission of Covid-19 during the pandemic, and especially against vaccination. These campaigns have brought anti-vaxx sentiments into the limelight with a vengeance. The aim of the article is to seek a better understanding of the forms that the contemporary anti-vaxx movements can take and what is fuelling them. It has three parts. The first describes rece…
Co‐design development of a decision guide on eating and drinking for people with severe dementia during acute hospital admissions
Reasons for Not Adopting Covid-19 Permitted Changes to Legal Duties
In England, “easements,” introduced via the Coronavirus Act 2020, were brought in at the start of the pandemic to support English local authority adult social care services. They enabled local authorities to suspend some of their mandatory duties under the Care Act 2014. Easements were only adopted by eight local authorities and for short periods, and the provision was rescinded in late 2021. This article examines why a sample of 16 local authori…
Priorities for day centre support and research, and the importance of centralised supportive information for day centres and their stakeholders
The closure of day centres during the COVID-19 pandemic placed these, generally under-researched, services of day centres under the spotlight. We report priority areas for support and research concerning English adult and older people’s day centres identified by a 2021 survey. Day centres and other day centre stakeholders have an appetite for evidence and supportive resource materials, covering how to remain current and sustainable, demonstrate i…
Local Online Information for Carers in England
This article reports on a study of local online information for carers in England. It sets this in the context of the Care Act 2014 which gave local authorities (LAs) specific responsibility for providing information to carers. The study selected four varied case study LAs and explored the content of their websites to see what carers might find available and accessible. We found the LA websites differed, with some LAs making use of local voluntar…
Pivoting in the Pandemic
This paper presents and discusses the findings of a small-scale longitudinal survey of trainees who embarked on one 14-month Step Up to Social Work (SUSW) qualifying programme in January 2020, just prior to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic's restrictions in the United Kingdom (UK).It explores their responses to changes made to their placements during their training and the impact on their subsequent employment.Three surveys were administered to…
The Views of Practitioners on Care Act Easements during the Covid-19 Pandemic
The easements of the Care Act 2014, permitted by the Coronavirus Act 2020, were in place in very few English local authorities and then only for a short time, but they still rippled across the wider social care workforce. This paper reports findings from interviews with social workers in ten non-easement authorities and with other professionals in easement and non-easement authorities to explore their understandings of easements and their reflect…
A salutogenesis approach to ageing with impairment
An understanding of the psychosocial impact of deafblindness on older people is impoverished by a dearth of research in the field. Particularly limited are studies adopting a salutogenesis perspective, in which older deafblind people's coping capacities are explored. Much research focuses on vulnerability to unfavourable outcomes, which may perpetuate negative stereotypes of deafblind people as passive and dependent. Identifying deafblind people …
The Covid-19 Pandemic’s Impact on UK Older People’s Social Workers
The social work profession was heavily impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. In this study, we examined the well-being, working conditions and intentions to leave the social work profession among a sample of UK older people’s social workers. This was a cross-sectional mixed methods study analysing data from 426 social workers who worked in older people’s services in the UK at five time points of the pandemic spanning 2020–2022. Data were collected u…
Experiences of racism and discrimination among migrant care workers in England
n Abstract \nThis article reports part of the findings of research undertaken in 2007-09 that aimed to investigate the contribution made by migrant workers to the care workforce in England. The study involved analysis of national statistics on social care and social workers and semi-structured interviews with a wide range of stakeholders, including 96 migrant care workers. The interviews elicited some accounts relating experiences of racism and d…
Personalisation through Individual Budgets
In England, ‘personal budgets’ are being implemented at a time of financial austerity. They are part of a growing trend internationally to give users of publicly funded social care and support more choice and control. In the individual budgets' (IB) pilot, people were allocated and had control over the way their IB was managed and spent, offering the opportunity to explore the potential of IBs to deliver better outcomes for people than convention…
Assessing the Role of Increasing Choice in English Social Care Services
This article aims to explore the concept of choice in public service policy in England, illustrated through findings of the Individual Budgets (IB) evaluation. The evaluation tested the impact of IBs as a mechanism to increase choice of access to and commissioning of social care services around the individual through a randomised trial and explored the experiences and perspectives of key groups through a large set of interviews. The article prese…
Debates in personalisation
Part 1: Introduction and Overview Introduction ~ Catherine Needham and Jon Glasby Taking Stock of Personalisation ~ Catherine Needham and Jon Glasby Making it Real: from Putting People First to Think Local, Act Personal ~ Sarah Carr Part 2: The Challenges of Personalisation Resource Allocation Systems: complex and counterproductive? ~ Lucy Series Safeguarding, risk and personalisation ~ Jill Manthorpe Can personalisation work for older people? ~ …
Partnership means protection? Perceptions of the effectiveness of multi‐agency working and the regulatory framework within adult protection in England and Wales
This article examines the effectiveness of the multi‐agency approach in adult protection and draws on findings from research that examined the effectiveness of both partnership working and perceptions of the regulatory framework to protect vulnerable adults. The research findings were collected through the use of a survey of all local councils with social services responsibilities in England and Wales. Examples of good practice in partnership wor…
Disclosing disability in the context of professional regulation
In the UK, the ‘fitness to practice’ criteria that allow regulatory bodies to use health standards to restrict entry to the human professions have resulted in some disabled people being excluded from this workforce. Disclosure of disability is therefore a risky process for those aiming to practice or train in nursing, social work and teaching. This research, commissioned to inform the Disability Rights Commission's Formal Investigation into fitne…
Reconciling recovery, personalisation and Housing First
Recovery' is a key concept in the organisation and delivery of interdisciplinary support for people experiencing multiple exclusion homelessness (MEH, that is, situations where homelessness overlaps with a range of other complex problems such as mental health issues and drug and alcohol dependencies). At the level of individual support planning, practitioners are expected to 'work together' to motivate service users to make positive changes to th…
People in Places
Social work and social care vacancies in England have partly been filled by international labour migration. Some staff are recruited from their home countries; others are recruited post arrival in the UK. The business of recruitment is often undertaken by commercial employment agencies; however, there is little literature on the workings of this sector. This article reports the first phase of a study of international recruitment in social care in…
Making the Transition
This article reports the results of a scoping review examining the transition from student to newly qualified professional across the social work, teaching, nursing and allied health professions. The extent to which professional qualifying programmes prepare students to make the transition into the workplace is a dominant theme in the literature but there is limited consensus about how to measure this reliably and objectively. The perceptions of …
International social workers in England
Recent years have seen considerable increases in the number of internationally-qualified social workers in England. This article presents trends in the international labour mobility of social workers migrating to work in England alongside information on the supply of UK-trained social workers. It concludes that demographic changes and policy imperatives have accentuated structural issues making it difficult to ensure an adequate supply in the num…
Living with uncertainty
Across the world, an early and timely diagnosis of dementia is seen to be a policy and practice imperative and a necessary step in order to live well with the condition. However, limited understanding exists regarding the personal and relational meanings attributed to the diagnostic experience. Drawn from the findings of a larger multi-site study conducted in four areas of England, this article presents a subset of the data where five participant…
Content and Purpose of Supervision in Social Work Practice in England
Social work supervision is receiving renewed attention internationally with calls for it to be remodelled and given greater priority, this paper uses data from a longitudinal study in England, which involved: three online surveys of Newly Qualified Social Workers (NQSWs); an online survey of Directors and face-to-face interviews with 23 social work managers which enabled us to investigate the receipt of supervision and its provision. Data on the …
Working Together to Address Multiple Exclusion Homelessness
This article draws on preliminary findings from a two-year exploratory study to describe how different agencies and professionals work together to identify and manage the intersections between homelessness and other facets of deep social exclusion. We assess the extent to which current practice is informed by policy frameworks for ‘personalised and integrated care planning’ focusing in particular on the ‘coordinating’ and ‘sign-posting’ role of t…
I live for today’
This article reports investigation of prevalent understandings and systems of beliefs that underpin older people's attitudes towards making plans for their future. The Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA) enables adults with capacity to make plans and decisions in advance, to arrange proxy decision-making and provides safeguards for those who might lose the capacity to make decisions for themselves in the future. This study explored the attitudes of a …
What (a) Difference a Degree Makes
After many years of debate in the UK about the need for a degree-level qualification in social work, the arguments for a minimum degree-level qualification were accepted. The requirements for the degree in England were developed drawing on work from a number of sources, including a benchmark statement for undergraduate degrees in social work and focus groups with stakeholders. The new degree in England, launched in 2003, involves one extra year’s…
Change and Continuity
The UK has long experienced a shortage of social workers and has recruited internationally to meet demand. There have been few specific data quantifying the scale of social work mobility to the UK through which such experiences can be set in context. The analysis reported in this article uses data from October 2008, relating to registered social workers working in England. As part of a wider study of migrant social care workers in England, the ar…
Embarking on self-directed support in Scotland
This article presents findings from a focused scoping review of the published literature on self-directed support (SDS), the term adopted by the Scottish Government to refer to its policy to improve social care outcomes and choices for people using publicly funded services and to distinguish it from personalisation, the term more commonly used in England, and from consumer-directed-care and cash for counselling. The review was undertaken to infor…
Investing in the relationship
Providing more consistent and continuous relationships for looked‐after children and care leavers is a current preoccupation in social work in light of many criticisms of the quality of such relationships. Recommendations for more direct work have spurred new models of service delivery in children's services aimed at improving individual outcomes. Independent S ocial W ork P ractices ( SWP s), a new organizational model piloted in some areas of E…
Interactional perspectives on the mistreatment of older and vulnerable people in long-term care settings
This article draws on a study aimed at developing theoretical and methodological understanding of the abuse and neglect (mistreatment) of older people in long-term care settings such as care homes and hospitals. It presents an interactionist account of mistreatment of older people in such establishments. Starting with an outline of definitional issues surrounding the topic, the allied concept of dignity is also briefly explored, and one important…
Elderly people's perspectives on health and well-being in rural communities in England
Addressing the problems of meeting the needs of ageing populations in rural areas is recognised as a political and service delivery challenge. The National Service Framework (NSF) for Older People (NSFOP) set out a series of service standards to raise quality, to redress variations in service use and to enhance the effectiveness of services across health and social care in England and alluded to the challenges of meeting such standards in rural c…
Mental well-being and quality of working life in UK social workers before and during the Covid-19 pandemic
During the COVID-19 pandemic interest into its potential impact on mental well-being has intensified. Within the social care sector, the pandemic has increased job demands and prolonged stress taking a disproportionate toll on the workforce, particularly social workers. This article compares the mental well-being and quality of working life of social workers in the United Kingdom (UK) before and during the pandemic. Data were collected in 2018 (N…
Clapping for carers in the Covid‐19 crisis
This paper reports and discusses the weekly Clapping for Carers - described as 'front-line heroes' that took place across the United Kingdom during the first national lockdown of the coronavirus pandemic. Data are drawn from a UK-wide online survey of health and social care workers, completed in May to July 2020. The survey received 3,425 responses of which 2,541 were analysed; free-text comments were categorised. One question asked specifically:…
Banned from working in social care
Since July 2004, employers of social care staff working with vulnerable adults in England and Wales have been legally required to refer workers or volunteers dismissed for misconduct because they have harmed vulnerable adults or placed them at risk of harm to the Protection of Vulnerable Adults (POVA) list. The POVA list is unique to England and Wales, and is a powerful tool of quality assurance for the care sector and for the safeguarding of vul…
Diversity and Progression among Students Starting Social Work Qualifying Programmes in England between 1995 and 1998
There has been no large-scale study looking at the proportion of social work students in the UK who achieve the professional qualification, although there is some evidence that different groups experience different rates of progression. This article examines progression rates among students studying for the DipSW in England and analyses the factors that influence whether students achieve an award on time (defined as achieving an award without bei…
Welfare agencies and risk
This paper is based on research into risk and social welfare being conducted at the University of Hull, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (1.10.94-30.9.96) as part of the Risk and Human Behaviour Programme. The research project focuses on the issues of risk affecting the social welfare of adults with learning disabilities and vulnerable children. The role of agencies has been relatively neglected in discussions of risk assessment…
Women Come of Age (Book)
The dilemmas of financial assessment
The issue of protecting the finances and resources of service users can sit uncomfortably with the social worker's role in charging for social care and dealing with the private sector. This article discusses the role of a CCETSW funded workshop that allowed care management workers to debate the ethical dilemmas around financial assessment. It describes the well-received focus of the workshop and a hypothetical problem solving exercise, which stim…
Current developments
Grandmothers as Caregivers
Birth to Old Age
Managing risk in the city
Issues of Risk Practice and Welfare in Learning Disability Services
This article focuses on risk management in services for people with learning disabilities. It identifies the issue of risk as central to many historical and current care practices. It illustrates this through three examples that raise questions of risk in relationship to people with learning disabilities: on community care, alcohol and sexuality. It concludes that risk has often been negatively associated with danger, but that sensitive risk mana…
Working carers
Combining paid work and informal care for an older relative presents challenges for care-givers. Social work practice increasingly encounters individuals who wish to ‘juggle’ both roles and it needs to develop its strategic and practical response. The complexities of care-giving are well-established: work itself may also be a source of satisfactin and stress. There is a need for debate at public policy level as well as individualised support
Welfare agencies and risk
This paper is based on research into risk and social welfare being conducted at the University of Hull, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (1.10.94-30.9.96) as part of the Risk and Human Behaviour Programme. The research project focuses on the issues of risk affecting the social welfare of adults with learning disabilities and vulnerable children. The role of agencies has been relatively neglected in discussions of risk assessment…
Blaming the Victim
The origins, objectives and process of Scottish local government reorganisation have been widely discussed (Midwinter 1993; Lang 1994; Black 1995; Boyne et al 1995; Fairley 1995). The Scottish reform process (directed by the Secretary of State) and its outcomes (comprehensive unitary coverage) were far closer to those in Wales than in England, reorganisation in the latter (concluded in April 1998) being shaped by the work of an armslength Local G…
Social work
Alison J. Hirschel, 1996. Setting the stage: the advocates' struggle to address neglect in Philadelphia nursing homes. Journal of Elder Abuse and Neglect , 8 , 3, 5–20. Raymond Jack and Stephen Mosley, 1997. The client group preferences of Diploma in Social Work students. British Journal of Social Work , 27 , 2, 893–912. Ruth Landau, 1997. Ethical judgement and decision making orientation in social work. Issues in Social Work Education , 17 , 2, …
Small is Beautiful? Local government reorganisation and the work of social services departments
English British local government is undergoing the most far-reaching reorganisation for 25 years. Government’s explicit objectives for change emphasised more local, cheaper, local government, although there were also implicit political objectives. Social services now represents the major directly-controlled local government activity; however, it was marginal in debates about reform. The impact of reform, particularly in terms of the size of the n…
Risk and health
(1999). Risk and health: Challenges and opportunity. Health, Risk & Society: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 5-6
Unequal Partners? Local Government Reorganization and the Voluntary Sector
British local government has recently undergone its most far‐reaching reorganization for twenty‐five years. The impact of this reorganization was considerable within local authorities but it also substantially affected other organizations with which they worked at a local level. This paper explores the perspectives of voluntary sector organizations involved in social care: a set of actors which, prior to reorganization, had been encouraged by cen…
Health, Risk & Society
We set ourselves the challenge in the first editorial of this journal, of contributing to understandings of the ways in which contemporary society responds to and shapes health \nissues. We declared the journal to be committed to stimulating the interdisciplinary study of risk. We envisaged it being a catalyst for high quality interdisciplinary study. And, if that was not enough, we confessed our ambition that the journal would act as a mechanism…
Picking up the pieces
Risk Assessment in Social Care and Social Work
Evaluation & Social Work Practice
Whistling in the wind? Constructions of whistleblowers in health and social care
This article explores a number of reported cases of whistleblowing. While this activity is encouraged and has been given certain legislative protection, the costs of whistleblowing evidently remain high. The article concludes that whistleblowing is unlikely to provide a stand‐alone protective framework against abuse, corruption and mistreatment because dynamics in health and social care often mitigate against criticism of powerful personalities a…
Care Management and Community Care
Adult protection case conferences
This article has three aims: to develop understanding of the case conference in the protection of vulnerable adults; to focus on the role of the chair in order to help those assuming such a position and those who work with them; to consider the case conference as one element of No Secrets and its rolling out into local policy and procedure documents
Rationing
Informing local inquiries
A role available to adult protection committees is the consideration of local issues and making recommendations to promote protection locally. While policy development in health and social care has been the result, at times, of national inquiries, local inquiries also provide valuable opportunities to explore issues, to reflect and to learn. This article considers the processes through which local inquiries or reviews may be developed
Testing Twigg and Atkin's typology of caring
The present article explores professional attitudes to family members supporting an older person newly diagnosed with dementia. It draws on professional perspectives derived from a series of 24 multidisciplinary workshops held in the UK, analysed using a typology developed by Twigg in 1989. The primary care workers' understanding of carers' needs and circumstances fitted best with Twigg's models of carers as resources and co-workers, but showed l…
The impact of home enteral tube feeding in everyday life
Advances in clinical and technical areas, combined with developments in community support services, have enabled people to receive enteral tube feeding at home in the UK. Research has focused on clinical and technical aspects, and people's experiences have largely been explored through the audit of after-care services. The research reported in the present paper consisted of a qualitative study in which a small number of people under going enteral…
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