Brian Stout
Biographic Data
| ID | 6025008 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian Stout |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian |
| FAMILY NAME | Stout |
| SIGNATURE | STOUT B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Sydney University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7933-9485 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
‘Caring and connected’
This article outlines social work practitioners’ understandings and practices of self-care, which consider the influence of technology. As part of an exploratory study on the use and experiences of technology by Australian social work practitioners, we examined implications for worker self-care. The study found that technology presents unique challenges and opportunities for self-care as social workers straddled multiple and contradictory concept…
Personalised Budgets
As the Australian state of New South Wales considers the adoption of a policy of personalised budgets in child protection, questions arise regarding how such a policy could take shape and how it would impact service delivery to promote safety and well-being amongst vulnerable children. This article presents findings from a mixed-method, realist evaluation of a pilot programme that adopted some of the features of personalised budgets, namely, pers…
Clarifying the role of belief-motive explanations in multi-stakeholder realist evaluation
Engaging sub-Saharan African migrant families in Australia
Traditional family characteristics within sub-Saharan African migrant families settling in Australia are challenged in the process of acculturation. These challenges gain prominence when sub-Saharan African migrant families become involved with the Child Protection System. In order to successfully engage these families, Child Protection practitioners will need a deeper understanding and appreciation of sub-Saharan African migrants’ parenting prac…
Researching Social Work Practice Ethically and Developing Ethical Researchers
Social work research is an ethically significant activity in that both the processes and the outcomes have ethical ramifications for those involved. This paper discusses the ethically important moments in a multi-agency evaluation carried out by a multi-disciplinary team of researchers. It shows how the formal ethical approval process was of some benefit but was expensive, time-consuming and of limited utility when some unexpected ethical issues …
The concept of a child within sub‐Saharan African migrant homes
As international migration increases, the Australian socio‐cultural and political context in which sub‐Saharan African migrant families are settling is causing tension between traditional sub‐Saharan African migrant definitions of child and childhood experiences and host nation definitions particularly when compared with the child protection system. This paper seeks to explore and highlight the fundamental values and differences that determine pe…
Child rights and protection in slum settlements of Kampala, Uganda
Child abuse and neglect are complex and polarizing issues in many low and middle income countries. We explore them through a situation analysis of child rights and protection in Uganda. A qualitative study, incorporating 10 focus group discussions (FGDs; N = 113) and 20 individual interviews was undertaken in Kampala, Uganda. Emerging themes were grouped into family and community-level factors; legal framework, structure and continuum of services…
Applied Criminology and Criminal Justice
Building Stakeholder Support for a Sex Offender Public Disclosure Scheme
A national scheme to allow the public to have access to information about convicted sex offenders living locally has recently been introduced. This roll‐out follows an evaluation of pilot schemes that operated in four areas. The campaign for the introduction of such a scheme in the UK has had wide media backing but children's charities had previously been reluctant to offer support. This article explores how the views of the children's charities,…
The Challenge of Financing and Delivering Personal Assistant Services
Over the past several years, a multitude of factors have converged to make the financing and delivery of personal assistant services (PAS) two of the most critical issues in American disability policy making. This article chronicles the development of assistive services and examines some of the more noteworthy strategies designed to improve PAS policy making. The argument is made that PAS should be a mandatory benefit provided through Medicaid. T…
Counterblast
The concept of a child within sub‐Saharan African migrant homes
As international migration increases, the Australian socio‐cultural and political context in which sub‐Saharan African migrant families are settling is causing tension between traditional sub‐Saharan African migrant definitions of child and childhood experiences and host nation definitions particularly when compared with the child protection system. This paper seeks to explore and highlight the fundamental values and differences that determine pe…
Child rights and protection in slum settlements of Kampala, Uganda
Child abuse and neglect are complex and polarizing issues in many low and middle income countries. We explore them through a situation analysis of child rights and protection in Uganda. A qualitative study, incorporating 10 focus group discussions (FGDs; N = 113) and 20 individual interviews was undertaken in Kampala, Uganda. Emerging themes were grouped into family and community-level factors; legal framework, structure and continuum of services…
Counterblast
The Challenge of Financing and Delivering Personal Assistant Services
Over the past several years, a multitude of factors have converged to make the financing and delivery of personal assistant services (PAS) two of the most critical issues in American disability policy making. This article chronicles the development of assistive services and examines some of the more noteworthy strategies designed to improve PAS policy making. The argument is made that PAS should be a mandatory benefit provided through Medicaid. T…
Building Stakeholder Support for a Sex Offender Public Disclosure Scheme
A national scheme to allow the public to have access to information about convicted sex offenders living locally has recently been introduced. This roll‐out follows an evaluation of pilot schemes that operated in four areas. The campaign for the introduction of such a scheme in the UK has had wide media backing but children's charities had previously been reluctant to offer support. This article explores how the views of the children's charities,…
Applied Criminology and Criminal Justice
Child rights and protection in slum settlements of Kampala, Uganda
Child abuse and neglect are complex and polarizing issues in many low and middle income countries. We explore them through a situation analysis of child rights and protection in Uganda. A qualitative study, incorporating 10 focus group discussions (FGDs; N = 113) and 20 individual interviews was undertaken in Kampala, Uganda. Emerging themes were grouped into family and community-level factors; legal framework, structure and continuum of services…
Researching Social Work Practice Ethically and Developing Ethical Researchers
Social work research is an ethically significant activity in that both the processes and the outcomes have ethical ramifications for those involved. This paper discusses the ethically important moments in a multi-agency evaluation carried out by a multi-disciplinary team of researchers. It shows how the formal ethical approval process was of some benefit but was expensive, time-consuming and of limited utility when some unexpected ethical issues …
The concept of a child within sub‐Saharan African migrant homes
As international migration increases, the Australian socio‐cultural and political context in which sub‐Saharan African migrant families are settling is causing tension between traditional sub‐Saharan African migrant definitions of child and childhood experiences and host nation definitions particularly when compared with the child protection system. This paper seeks to explore and highlight the fundamental values and differences that determine pe…
Clarifying the role of belief-motive explanations in multi-stakeholder realist evaluation
Engaging sub-Saharan African migrant families in Australia
Traditional family characteristics within sub-Saharan African migrant families settling in Australia are challenged in the process of acculturation. These challenges gain prominence when sub-Saharan African migrant families become involved with the Child Protection System. In order to successfully engage these families, Child Protection practitioners will need a deeper understanding and appreciation of sub-Saharan African migrants’ parenting prac…
Personalised Budgets
As the Australian state of New South Wales considers the adoption of a policy of personalised budgets in child protection, questions arise regarding how such a policy could take shape and how it would impact service delivery to promote safety and well-being amongst vulnerable children. This article presents findings from a mixed-method, realist evaluation of a pilot programme that adopted some of the features of personalised budgets, namely, pers…
‘Caring and connected’
This article outlines social work practitioners’ understandings and practices of self-care, which consider the influence of technology. As part of an exploratory study on the use and experiences of technology by Australian social work practitioners, we examined implications for worker self-care. The study found that technology presents unique challenges and opportunities for self-care as social workers straddled multiple and contradictory concept…
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Law (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (3 works) · Criminology (3 works)