Lucille Allain
Biographic Data
| ID | 6024088 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lucille Allain |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lucille |
| FAMILY NAME | Allain |
| SIGNATURE | ALLAIN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Moscow State University of Technologies and Management named after K.G. Razumovskiy |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Young people on the ‘edge of care’
Support approaches and interventions to keep families together are major goals in family welfare services. Different service models are used including some targeted at families where the assessment is part of family court pre-proceedings. Although outcomes of family interventions have been extensively researched, there is limited recent research regarding the subjective experiences of young people, their parents/carers and professionals who exper…
Adult social care training for newly-qualified doctors from general medical practice
This article reports findings from a pilot project evaluation, involving workshops for newly qualified doctors training as general practitioners (GPs). The learning project, designed as part of GP training programmes in one English city, focused on strengthening newly qualified doctors’ knowledge of social work practice in adult social care. The evaluation reported here used pre- and post-workshop questionnaires and GP and social worker participa…
Case Study
This case study discusses the development and delivery of a MA/MBA social work leadership programme which was part of a range of new learning opportunities in a social work teaching partnership. Following the mapping of workforce needs across the employers, a key theme emerged in relation to the need for a leadership programme for managers. This case study brings together the process of developing and delivering new leadership programmes and incl…
Selling Transracial Adoption
This book is grounded in the American adoption system and focuses on the private adoption marketplace, which is part of American child welfare services. This is very different from the British adoption system and it quickly emerges that there are significant concerns about the mingling of loosely regulated business models with decisions being made about children’s futures, their identity, care needs and the need to feel a sense of belonging. The …
Roll back the years”
Growing numbers of grandparent special guardians (GSGs) are assuming responsibility for increasing numbers of children in the care system in England. Special guardianship arrangements are increasingly used as a permanency option as they allow children to remain in their kinship networks rather than in local authority care or be adopted; yet there is a scarcity of research on GSG carers' experiences. This paper reports a small qualitative research…
Social Work in a Diverse Society
Currently, in the UK, we are a nation preoccupied with issues of belonging, ethnicity, identity and what it means to be ‘British’. This excellent edited textbook offers clear-thinking discussion and debate about current practice issues across the UK in relation to diversity, ethnicity and culture. The editors argue that, to build transformative practice in diverse communities, we need first to acknowledge the highly politicised and shifting polit…
An Investigation of how a group of social workers respond to the cultural needs of black, minority ethnic looked after children
This paper reflects on the findings from a small qualitative study of how social workers from one local authority respond to the cultural needs of black, minority ethnic looked after young people aged eleven years old and over. Cultural needs are defined as those specified in the Children Act 1989 as arising from the young person's religion, cultural and linguistic background alongside their racial origin. Cultural competence as an emerging model…
Roll back the years”
Growing numbers of grandparent special guardians (GSGs) are assuming responsibility for increasing numbers of children in the care system in England. Special guardianship arrangements are increasingly used as a permanency option as they allow children to remain in their kinship networks rather than in local authority care or be adopted; yet there is a scarcity of research on GSG carers' experiences. This paper reports a small qualitative research…
An Investigation of how a group of social workers respond to the cultural needs of black, minority ethnic looked after children
This paper reflects on the findings from a small qualitative study of how social workers from one local authority respond to the cultural needs of black, minority ethnic looked after young people aged eleven years old and over. Cultural needs are defined as those specified in the Children Act 1989 as arising from the young person's religion, cultural and linguistic background alongside their racial origin. Cultural competence as an emerging model…
Social Work in a Diverse Society
Currently, in the UK, we are a nation preoccupied with issues of belonging, ethnicity, identity and what it means to be ‘British’. This excellent edited textbook offers clear-thinking discussion and debate about current practice issues across the UK in relation to diversity, ethnicity and culture. The editors argue that, to build transformative practice in diverse communities, we need first to acknowledge the highly politicised and shifting polit…
Roll back the years”
Growing numbers of grandparent special guardians (GSGs) are assuming responsibility for increasing numbers of children in the care system in England. Special guardianship arrangements are increasingly used as a permanency option as they allow children to remain in their kinship networks rather than in local authority care or be adopted; yet there is a scarcity of research on GSG carers' experiences. This paper reports a small qualitative research…
Case Study
This case study discusses the development and delivery of a MA/MBA social work leadership programme which was part of a range of new learning opportunities in a social work teaching partnership. Following the mapping of workforce needs across the employers, a key theme emerged in relation to the need for a leadership programme for managers. This case study brings together the process of developing and delivering new leadership programmes and incl…
Selling Transracial Adoption
This book is grounded in the American adoption system and focuses on the private adoption marketplace, which is part of American child welfare services. This is very different from the British adoption system and it quickly emerges that there are significant concerns about the mingling of loosely regulated business models with decisions being made about children’s futures, their identity, care needs and the need to feel a sense of belonging. The …
Young people on the ‘edge of care’
Support approaches and interventions to keep families together are major goals in family welfare services. Different service models are used including some targeted at families where the assessment is part of family court pre-proceedings. Although outcomes of family interventions have been extensively researched, there is limited recent research regarding the subjective experiences of young people, their parents/carers and professionals who exper…
Adult social care training for newly-qualified doctors from general medical practice
This article reports findings from a pilot project evaluation, involving workshops for newly qualified doctors training as general practitioners (GPs). The learning project, designed as part of GP training programmes in one English city, focused on strengthening newly qualified doctors’ knowledge of social work practice in adult social care. The evaluation reported here used pre- and post-workshop questionnaires and GP and social worker participa…
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Qualitative research (3 works) · Social Work (3 works)