Christine Cocker
Biographic Data
| ID | 6023536 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christine Cocker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christine |
| FAMILY NAME | Cocker |
| SIGNATURE | COCKER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of East Anglia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4188-2316 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Accounting for gender and sexuality in social work leadership
In a women-majority profession, white heterosexual men disproportionately hold senior leadership positions in social work and social care. Within the literature that examines diversity in leadership, including gender, less is known about sexuality and sexual identity. This study contributes to this area by exploring senior lesbian leaders’ experiences and perspectives on leadership in social work and social care. Their accounts of the leadership …
Sexuality and religion
This paper critically reviews the case of a social work student whose professional training was terminated by his University. This followed the student’s expression of his religious views about homosexuality on a public social media platform. The student sought a judicial review of this decision on human rights grounds. The High Court dismissed the student’s challenge but the Court of Appeal overturned this decision to dismiss on the grounds of p…
Social Work Teaching Partnerships
Learning from safeguarding adult reviews about Transitional Safeguarding
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.…
Transitional Safeguarding
This article argues for a transformation in the protection and safeguarding needs of young people during their transition between childhood and adulthood. In order to explore with local authorities how they would address some of these challenges, the authors facilitated four national workshops with principal social workers, senior and middle managers (n = 88) from approximately one-third of Local Authorities in England (n = 52) from both Children…
Following the Death of Ms A
This article discusses work done over several years in the London Borough of Havering (LBH) to develop and strengthen services for young people transitioning from Children’s Services to adulthood, care-experienced young people in particular. The impetus for this development work was a Safeguarding Adult Review (SAR) published in 2017 concerning a care-experienced young adult, Ms A, who was receiving Leaving Care services at the time of her death …
Transitional Safeguarding
Editorial for Special Issue on Transitional Safeguarding
Transitional Safeguarding
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to set out the similarities and differences between the legal frameworks for safeguarding children and adults. It presents the case for developing a Transitional Safeguarding approach to create an integrated paradigm for safeguarding young people that better meets their developmental needs and better reflects the nature of harms young people face. Design/methodology/approach This paper draws on the key princip…
Transitional Safeguarding
What do we know about transgender parenting
Lesbian and Gay Foster Care and Adoption, 2nd edn, Stephen Hicks and Janet McDermott
When the first edition of this book was published in 1999, it was pioneering. My copy of that book is dog-eared and tattered, having referred to it so often in my own academic writing. When I saw that a second edition had been published this year, I was curious to see how a book that captured the spirit of the 1990s adoption and fostering stories of lesbians and gay men so well (‘extraordinary yet ordinary’ was the subtitle on the original) could…
Making Safeguarding Personal and Social Work Practice with Older Adults
This article presents the results of a survey of English local authorities undertaken in 2016 about the implementation of Making Safeguarding Personal (MSP) in adult social care services. MSP is an approach to adult safeguarding practice that prioritises the needs and outcomes identified by the person being supported. The key findings from a survey of local authorities are described, emphasising issues for safeguarding older adults, who are the l…
Rights through Alliances
This paper draws on findings from a European project, ‘Rights through Alliances: Innovating and Networking Both Within Homes And Schools’ (RAINBOW-HAS), conducted in 2013–15. It built collaboration between six EU countries to analyse and improve the rights of children and youth regarding sexual orientation and gender identity in educational settings. The main focus of discussion derives from a secondary discourse analysis following thematic analy…
Rethinking Anti-Discriminatory and Anti-Oppressive Theories for Social Work Practice
The concepts of anti-discriminatory and anti-oppressive practice have long been embedded in social work, but whereas once these may have offered an alternative critique of individual and societal relations, they have long since become part of mainstream thinking and have lost their political edge. This book kick-starts an overdue debate by rethinking how social work understands the complexity of human interactions and experiences. In so doing, it…
Improving Outcomes for Children and Families
This book is published in the ‘Child Welfare Outcomes’ series, which is tasked with producing publications that ‘draw from original research and current policy debates to help social work managers, policy makers and researchers to understand and improve the outcomes of services for children and young people in need’ (back cover) . The book is an edited volume and showcases the work of a number of research academics and practitioners from a variet…
Sex, Sexuality and Relationships
In the UK, the last 15 years have seen a profound change in the way that lesbians and gay men have been socially and politically located and acknowledged. This is evidenced by recent legislative changes that have given protection to lesbians and gay men and placed a duty on public bodies to provide equitable services. For a number of years lesbians and gay men have been specifically targeted, recruited and utilised as adopters of children in publ…
Out and Proud? Social Work's Relationship with Lesbian and Gay Equality
Major changes in the UK legislative framework to promote the rights of lesbians and gay men have challenged and challenge long-standing heteronormative and heterosexist frames of reference in both social work practice and professional education and the way these are organised. At the same time, government policy within ‘transformation’ and ‘integrated’ agendas and recent reviews of the role of social work provide many opportunities for social wor…
What is the Impact of Public Care on Children's Welfare? A Review of Research Findings from England and Wales and their Policy Implications
The outcomes for children in public care are generally considered to be poor. This has contributed to a focus on reducing the number of children in care: a goal that is made explicit in the provisions of the current Children and Young Persons Bill. Yet while children in care do less well than most children on a range of measures, such comparisons do not disentangle the extent to which these difficulties pre-dated care and the specific impact of c…
Lesbian and Gay Fostering and Adoption
Recent public debates have discussed lesbians and gay men caring for children as a novel phenomenon, but such arrangements are not new. Helen Cosis Brown and Christine Cocker track debates concerning lesbian and gay families and examine the relationship between policy and practice that is evidence based and ideologically driven. They outline the complexities of adoption and fostering practice within its political and social context and argue that…
Transitional Safeguarding
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to set out the similarities and differences between the legal frameworks for safeguarding children and adults. It presents the case for developing a Transitional Safeguarding approach to create an integrated paradigm for safeguarding young people that better meets their developmental needs and better reflects the nature of harms young people face. Design/methodology/approach This paper draws on the key princip…
Out and Proud? Social Work's Relationship with Lesbian and Gay Equality
Major changes in the UK legislative framework to promote the rights of lesbians and gay men have challenged and challenge long-standing heteronormative and heterosexist frames of reference in both social work practice and professional education and the way these are organised. At the same time, government policy within ‘transformation’ and ‘integrated’ agendas and recent reviews of the role of social work provide many opportunities for social wor…
Lesbian and Gay Fostering and Adoption
Recent public debates have discussed lesbians and gay men caring for children as a novel phenomenon, but such arrangements are not new. Helen Cosis Brown and Christine Cocker track debates concerning lesbian and gay families and examine the relationship between policy and practice that is evidence based and ideologically driven. They outline the complexities of adoption and fostering practice within its political and social context and argue that…
Making Safeguarding Personal and Social Work Practice with Older Adults
This article presents the results of a survey of English local authorities undertaken in 2016 about the implementation of Making Safeguarding Personal (MSP) in adult social care services. MSP is an approach to adult safeguarding practice that prioritises the needs and outcomes identified by the person being supported. The key findings from a survey of local authorities are described, emphasising issues for safeguarding older adults, who are the l…
Learning from safeguarding adult reviews about Transitional Safeguarding
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.…
Sex, Sexuality and Relationships
In the UK, the last 15 years have seen a profound change in the way that lesbians and gay men have been socially and politically located and acknowledged. This is evidenced by recent legislative changes that have given protection to lesbians and gay men and placed a duty on public bodies to provide equitable services. For a number of years lesbians and gay men have been specifically targeted, recruited and utilised as adopters of children in publ…
Lesbian and Gay Fostering and Adoption
Recent public debates have discussed lesbians and gay men caring for children as a novel phenomenon, but such arrangements are not new. Helen Cosis Brown and Christine Cocker track debates concerning lesbian and gay families and examine the relationship between policy and practice that is evidence based and ideologically driven. They outline the complexities of adoption and fostering practice within its political and social context and argue that…
What is the Impact of Public Care on Children's Welfare? A Review of Research Findings from England and Wales and their Policy Implications
The outcomes for children in public care are generally considered to be poor. This has contributed to a focus on reducing the number of children in care: a goal that is made explicit in the provisions of the current Children and Young Persons Bill. Yet while children in care do less well than most children on a range of measures, such comparisons do not disentangle the extent to which these difficulties pre-dated care and the specific impact of c…
Sex, Sexuality and Relationships
In the UK, the last 15 years have seen a profound change in the way that lesbians and gay men have been socially and politically located and acknowledged. This is evidenced by recent legislative changes that have given protection to lesbians and gay men and placed a duty on public bodies to provide equitable services. For a number of years lesbians and gay men have been specifically targeted, recruited and utilised as adopters of children in publ…
Out and Proud? Social Work's Relationship with Lesbian and Gay Equality
Major changes in the UK legislative framework to promote the rights of lesbians and gay men have challenged and challenge long-standing heteronormative and heterosexist frames of reference in both social work practice and professional education and the way these are organised. At the same time, government policy within ‘transformation’ and ‘integrated’ agendas and recent reviews of the role of social work provide many opportunities for social wor…
Improving Outcomes for Children and Families
This book is published in the ‘Child Welfare Outcomes’ series, which is tasked with producing publications that ‘draw from original research and current policy debates to help social work managers, policy makers and researchers to understand and improve the outcomes of services for children and young people in need’ (back cover) . The book is an edited volume and showcases the work of a number of research academics and practitioners from a variet…
Rethinking Anti-Discriminatory and Anti-Oppressive Theories for Social Work Practice
The concepts of anti-discriminatory and anti-oppressive practice have long been embedded in social work, but whereas once these may have offered an alternative critique of individual and societal relations, they have long since become part of mainstream thinking and have lost their political edge. This book kick-starts an overdue debate by rethinking how social work understands the complexity of human interactions and experiences. In so doing, it…
Rights through Alliances
This paper draws on findings from a European project, ‘Rights through Alliances: Innovating and Networking Both Within Homes And Schools’ (RAINBOW-HAS), conducted in 2013–15. It built collaboration between six EU countries to analyse and improve the rights of children and youth regarding sexual orientation and gender identity in educational settings. The main focus of discussion derives from a secondary discourse analysis following thematic analy…
Making Safeguarding Personal and Social Work Practice with Older Adults
This article presents the results of a survey of English local authorities undertaken in 2016 about the implementation of Making Safeguarding Personal (MSP) in adult social care services. MSP is an approach to adult safeguarding practice that prioritises the needs and outcomes identified by the person being supported. The key findings from a survey of local authorities are described, emphasising issues for safeguarding older adults, who are the l…
What do we know about transgender parenting
Lesbian and Gay Foster Care and Adoption, 2nd edn, Stephen Hicks and Janet McDermott
When the first edition of this book was published in 1999, it was pioneering. My copy of that book is dog-eared and tattered, having referred to it so often in my own academic writing. When I saw that a second edition had been published this year, I was curious to see how a book that captured the spirit of the 1990s adoption and fostering stories of lesbians and gay men so well (‘extraordinary yet ordinary’ was the subtitle on the original) could…
Transitional Safeguarding
Following the Death of Ms A
This article discusses work done over several years in the London Borough of Havering (LBH) to develop and strengthen services for young people transitioning from Children’s Services to adulthood, care-experienced young people in particular. The impetus for this development work was a Safeguarding Adult Review (SAR) published in 2017 concerning a care-experienced young adult, Ms A, who was receiving Leaving Care services at the time of her death …
Transitional Safeguarding
Editorial for Special Issue on Transitional Safeguarding
Transitional Safeguarding
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to set out the similarities and differences between the legal frameworks for safeguarding children and adults. It presents the case for developing a Transitional Safeguarding approach to create an integrated paradigm for safeguarding young people that better meets their developmental needs and better reflects the nature of harms young people face. Design/methodology/approach This paper draws on the key princip…
Sexuality and religion
This paper critically reviews the case of a social work student whose professional training was terminated by his University. This followed the student’s expression of his religious views about homosexuality on a public social media platform. The student sought a judicial review of this decision on human rights grounds. The High Court dismissed the student’s challenge but the Court of Appeal overturned this decision to dismiss on the grounds of p…
Social Work Teaching Partnerships
Learning from safeguarding adult reviews about Transitional Safeguarding
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.…
Transitional Safeguarding
This article argues for a transformation in the protection and safeguarding needs of young people during their transition between childhood and adulthood. In order to explore with local authorities how they would address some of these challenges, the authors facilitated four national workshops with principal social workers, senior and middle managers (n = 88) from approximately one-third of Local Authorities in England (n = 52) from both Children…
Accounting for gender and sexuality in social work leadership
In a women-majority profession, white heterosexual men disproportionately hold senior leadership positions in social work and social care. Within the literature that examines diversity in leadership, including gender, less is known about sexuality and sexual identity. This study contributes to this area by exploring senior lesbian leaders’ experiences and perspectives on leadership in social work and social care. Their accounts of the leadership …
Political science (14 works) · Law (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Public relations (9 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Nursing (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Safeguarding (7 works) · Social Work (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works)