June Thoburn
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4415463 |
|---|---|
| NOME | June Thoburn |
| PRENOMES | June |
| SOBRENOME | Thoburn |
| ASSINATURA | THOBURN J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of East Anglia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8263-2164 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 55 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 240 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 55 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1985 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Serving families living in poverty
This article presents findings from a cross-national qualitative study that examined how frontline practitioners engage with poverty in their everyday work with families with children. Drawing on qualitative responses to four open-ended questions from an international survey (n = 634), the study brought together practitioner accounts from ten countries: Australia, China, Germany/Switzerland, 2 Israel, Italy, Portugal, Spain, the UK, and the US. U…
Committed but constrained
A safe place of one’s own? Exploring practice and policy dilemmas in child welfare practice with families waiting for adequate and secure housing
As in many European states, a shortage of housing in England has resulted in some families who are ‘waiting for’ adequate and secure housing in England while also having the ‘weight of’ their children being placed outside their care hanging over them. This paper reports on the development of a practice guidance document that included an online survey with 38 children’s social services practitioners in England regarding their practice experiences …
Motivational Interviewing for Working with Children and Families
This clearly-written handbook provides a description of Motivational Interviewing (MI as it is referred to in much of the text)—a method now incorporated into the practice of some English child and family services. It focuses specifically on the interview when there are concerns about child maltreatment—an essential but not sufficient component of social work with children and families. In that sense, the inclusion in the sub-title of ‘early inte…
Processes and determining factors when family court judgments are made in England about infants entering care at birth
This paper reports on the England part of a research project exploring judicial decision making in eight jurisdictions with respect to care applications in respect of new-born infants. Descriptive data are provided on a total cohort of 278 care applications made to three English family court care centres in 2016. Attention is paid to final orders made and findings are reported on differences between the three care centres with respect to the prop…
Returning children home from care
International Human Rights and child rights conventions as well as U.K. wide legislation and guidance require that children in care should be returned home to one or both parents wherever possible. Reunification with parents is the most common route out of care, but rates of re‐entry are often higher than for other exit routes. This study used 8 years of administrative data (on 2,208 care entrants), collected by one large English local authority,…
Children in care
Local authorities in England are required to routinely collect administrative data on children in care and cross-sectional analyses of national data are published by central government. This paper explores the usefulness of undertaking a longitudinal analysis of these data at local authority level to determine the care pathways for children entering care, differentiating by age at entry. The sample consisted of 2208 children who entered care in o…
In defence of a university social work education
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify the particular characteristics and strengths of mainstream undergraduate and postgraduate university education for social workers. Design/methodology/approach A brief summary of the establishment of the honours degree or M-level qualification as the requirement for registration as a social worker in England is followed by a summary of the main aspects of “mainstream” social work courses. The values…
Citizens' views in four jurisdictions on placement policies for maltreated children
Citizens' opinions on child protection public policy are a key dimension of the legitimacy of a political order. We have conducted a survey vignette on a representative sample of citizens ( N = 4,003) in England, Finland, Norway, and California, USA. The findings show that citizens' opinions are clearly in favour of adoption (75%) rather than long‐term foster care (25%). Context may partly explain the findings, as the responses of the majority of…
Therapeutic Residential Care for Children and Youth
The International Work Group for Therapeutic Residential Care convened an International Summit on ‘Pathways to Evidence-Based Practice’ at Loughborough University (GBR), Centre for Child and Fami...
Pathways to permanence in England and Norway
The English language term ‘permanence’ is increasingly used in high income countries as a ‘short-hand’ translation for a complex set of aims around providing stability and family membership for children who need child welfare services and out-of-home care. From a scrutiny of legislative provisions, court judgments, government documents and a public opinion survey on child placement options, the paper draws out similarities and differences in unde…
Residential care as a permanence option for young people needing longer-term care
Facilitating Adoptions from Care
‘Troubled families’, ‘troublesome families’ and the trouble with Payment by Results
key words multi-problem families • intensive outreach • family casework
An exploration of the differential usage of residential childcare across national boundaries
The use of residential placements for children needing out‐of‐home care remains controversial. This article considers the discourse of ‘residential’ and ‘institutional’ care before describing, mainly through administrative data sources, the wide variations in group‐care usage in different jurisdictions. In some countries, its use is minimal, with foster care, kinship care and in some cases, adoption being the preferred options. This is not so in …
Obituary
The place of “think family” approaches in child and family social work
Achieving Successful Returns from Care
Elaine Farmer has a richly deserved reputation for the quality of her research on alternative family placements and is one of the few researchers who has, over twenty years or so, researched and theorised around decision making and outcomes when children return from care, either to birth parents or kinship carers. In law and in practice, returning children home from care is the first ‘permanence option’ to be considered: all the more noteworthy, …
A guide through the knowledge base on children in out‐of‐home care
Purpose – Out‐of‐home care has been a subject for policy debate since child welfare policies were first developed. Too often the debate is marked by ill‐informed sound‐bites linking "care" with negative descriptors such as "drift" or "languish". The purpose of this paper is to urge a more nuanced understanding informed by the large volume of research from across jurisdictional boundaries. Design/methodology/approach – The historical, cultural and…
Your shout too! Children's views of the arrangements made and services provided when courts adjudicate in private law disputes
Government reports and research studies from several countries, going back over several years, have highlighted the harm suffered by children caught up in their parents' conflict about where they should live and who they should see. This article adds to the still-small body of research presenting children's views about the sources of support available to them around the time of court hearings and subsequently. A questionnaire was sent, via the Ch…
An international classification system for child welfare programs
Promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children
This article describes the contrast between the clearly expressed and optimistic intentions of section 17 of the Children Act 1989, namely to produce a genuine service continuum that will promote and safeguard the welfare of children, and the reality of the post‐1989 implementation process. It shows how, over decades, perennial challenges have consistently skewed the balance between proactive family support services and reactive crisis‐driven res…
Towards knowledge‐based practice in complex child protection cases
This article is an extended version of an ‘experts’ briefing' commissioned to inform senior child welfare managers in English local authorities and voluntary agencies about the available evidence to inform the provision of effective services in complex child protection cases. It starts by noting how differences in the approach to service provision in different jurisdictions affect both the nature of research conducted and its transferability acro…
Baaf's Role in the Development of the Foster Care Service
June Thoburn and Gillian Schofield demonstrate how the development of the foster care service over the last 30 years reveals BAAF's varied points of engagement with policy and practice, which have increasingly helped to shape the foster care agenda
Recognising and responding to child maltreatment
Beyond attachment theory and therapy
Elements of attachment theory have been embraced by practitioners endeavouring to assist foster and adopted children and their parents. Attachment theory articulates the potential risks of experiencing multiple caregivers; emphasizes the importance of close social relationships to development; and recognizes that substitute parents may not always have close relationships with children who have experienced adversities before joining them. Attachme…
Research Review
This paper considers some of the available published research on family support services for minority ethnic families. In addressing this aspect of social work with minority ethnic families, we seek to make a contribution to the knowledge base of practitioners. The paper begins with an overview of what is known about family support services for particular minority ethnic groups, before exploring three specific areas: family centres, a home visiti…
The Search For Stability and Permanence
This paper presents findings from a study of children looked after by 24 local authorities. It combines analysis of statistical data with analysis of qualitative and quantitative data from a questionnaire survey of a targeted sub-sample of children who had been looked after for 4 years or more. The paper highlights a complex picture of continuity and discontinuity in attempts to achieve stability and permanence in a range of birth family, foster …
Can the Corporate State Parent
Discussions about provision for children in the care of the state have continually raised the question, can the corporate state parent? Roger Bullock, Mark E Courtney, Roy Parker, Ian Sinclair and June Thoburn consider the question in the light of recent studies of separated children. It is argued that while the state does not need to fulfil all parenting responsibilities when care is shared with families or children are adopted, for three groups…
Can the corporate state parent
A Snapshot of Permanent Family Placement
An exploration of the differential usage of residential childcare across national boundaries
The use of residential placements for children needing out‐of‐home care remains controversial. This article considers the discourse of ‘residential’ and ‘institutional’ care before describing, mainly through administrative data sources, the wide variations in group‐care usage in different jurisdictions. In some countries, its use is minimal, with foster care, kinship care and in some cases, adoption being the preferred options. This is not so in …
Children Starting to be Looked After by Local Authorities in England
This paper presents findings from a study of children looked after by 24 local authorities in England. The study combined analysis of key statistical data with a questionnaire survey completed by the social workers for a sub-sample of the children. This paper focuses on children who started a period of being looked after in the participating authorities during the 6 months from October 2000 to March 2001. The study found considerable variation be…
Using racial disproportionality and disparity indicators to measure child welfare outcomes
Safeguarding children in the UK
This paper presents findings from a prospective longitudinal study which set out to track the progress of 105 children and young people newly identified as having suffered, or being likely to suffer, significant harm through maltreatment or neglect. Baseline data were collected on these children in four English social services departments. Descriptive data on the services and child outcome data were analysed on all the children between 12 and 18 …
Citizens' views in four jurisdictions on placement policies for maltreated children
Citizens' opinions on child protection public policy are a key dimension of the legitimacy of a political order. We have conducted a survey vignette on a representative sample of citizens ( N = 4,003) in England, Finland, Norway, and California, USA. The findings show that citizens' opinions are clearly in favour of adoption (75%) rather than long‐term foster care (25%). Context may partly explain the findings, as the responses of the majority of…
The place of “think family” approaches in child and family social work
Research Review
This paper reviews the research on the referral of minority ethnic children to child and family social work teams because of child protection concerns. Specifically, it focuses on those studies that have researched the referral stage of the child ‘in need’ and child protection systems, and explored differences in patterns of referral between the main ethnic groups that make up the UK population
Evidence-based social work practice with children and families
This paper summarizes, from a cross-national perspective, some commonly used models of evidence-based practice and relates them to social work practice with children and families. We first identify concepts and dimensions central to an analysis of the outcomes of social work practice. We then present and discuss key components of social work practice that any evidence-based model must take into account. Finally, we provide some examples of strate…
Your Shout! Looked After Children's Perspectives on the Children Act 1989
Ten years after the implementation of the Children Act 1989 in England and Wales, a review of how its main provisions were working out in practice was undertaken by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC). This article reports on a survey of the views of 735 children and young people who were looked after by UK local authorities and discusses some of the implications for policy and practice as the Adoption and Child…
The Placement of Black Children with Permanent New Families
In 1987 a survey was conducted of eleven hundred and sixty-five children with ‘special needs’ placed by the major voluntary adoption agencies with permanent new families between 1980 and 1984 (Thoburn & Rowe, 1988; Fratter et al, 1991). Among those placed were 241 black children and children from other minority ethnic groups. Marilyn Charles, Stephen Rashid and June Thoburn report on an exploratory study undertaken in 1991 and 1992 of this cohort…
Residential care as a permanence option for young people needing longer-term care
Pathways to permanence in England and Norway
The English language term ‘permanence’ is increasingly used in high income countries as a ‘short-hand’ translation for a complex set of aims around providing stability and family membership for children who need child welfare services and out-of-home care. From a scrutiny of legislative provisions, court judgments, government documents and a public opinion survey on child placement options, the paper draws out similarities and differences in unde…
Facilitating Adoptions from Care
A guide through the knowledge base on children in out‐of‐home care
Purpose – Out‐of‐home care has been a subject for policy debate since child welfare policies were first developed. Too often the debate is marked by ill‐informed sound‐bites linking "care" with negative descriptors such as "drift" or "languish". The purpose of this paper is to urge a more nuanced understanding informed by the large volume of research from across jurisdictional boundaries. Design/methodology/approach – The historical, cultural and…
Towards knowledge‐based practice in complex child protection cases
This article is an extended version of an ‘experts’ briefing' commissioned to inform senior child welfare managers in English local authorities and voluntary agencies about the available evidence to inform the provision of effective services in complex child protection cases. It starts by noting how differences in the approach to service provision in different jurisdictions affect both the nature of research conducted and its transferability acro…
Returning children home from care
International Human Rights and child rights conventions as well as U.K. wide legislation and guidance require that children in care should be returned home to one or both parents wherever possible. Reunification with parents is the most common route out of care, but rates of re‐entry are often higher than for other exit routes. This study used 8 years of administrative data (on 2,208 care entrants), collected by one large English local authority,…
Children in care
Local authorities in England are required to routinely collect administrative data on children in care and cross-sectional analyses of national data are published by central government. This paper explores the usefulness of undertaking a longitudinal analysis of these data at local authority level to determine the care pathways for children entering care, differentiating by age at entry. The sample consisted of 2208 children who entered care in o…
In defence of a university social work education
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify the particular characteristics and strengths of mainstream undergraduate and postgraduate university education for social workers. Design/methodology/approach A brief summary of the establishment of the honours degree or M-level qualification as the requirement for registration as a social worker in England is followed by a summary of the main aspects of “mainstream” social work courses. The values…
An international classification system for child welfare programs
Routes to Permanence
What Kind of Permanence
Books & Resources
A Snapshot of Permanent Family Placement
The Children Act 1989; balancing child welfare with the concept of partnership with parents
The paper starts from the expressed intention of the architects of the Children Act 1989 to balance the welfare of children who may need care, with the right of the children and their families to protection from unwarranted state intervention, and to involvement in the important decisions which affect their lives. The main focus of the paper is on those children for whom long term care away from the family home is needed. It considers the changes…
Permanent Family Placement and the Children Act 1989
Openness Revisited
The Placement of Black Children with Permanent New Families
In 1987 a survey was conducted of eleven hundred and sixty-five children with ‘special needs’ placed by the major voluntary adoption agencies with permanent new families between 1980 and 1984 (Thoburn & Rowe, 1988; Fratter et al, 1991). Among those placed were 241 black children and children from other minority ethnic groups. Marilyn Charles, Stephen Rashid and June Thoburn report on an exploratory study undertaken in 1991 and 1992 of this cohort…
Measuring the Impact
Important Contribution
Safeguarding Children under the Children Act 1989
Outcomes of permanent family placement for children of minority ethnic origin
The paper explores the outcomes of permanent family placement for children of minority ethnic origin, using a sample of 254 placements drawn, in the main, from a cohort of 1165 British children placed between 1980 and 1985. Statistical techniques are used to explore the relationship between ‘success’ (defined, for the purposes of this paper, as the placement not known to have broken down) and a range of variables, including the characteristics of…
The adoption and permanence debate in England and Wales
Using the ‘Looking After Children’ dimensions to collect aggregate data on well‐being
The Department of Health has funded the development of a set of schedules for collating information on and monitoring the progress of children looked after by local authorities. An additional aspiration underlying official encouragement of the use of these ‘Looking After Children’ (LAC) materials was that they would provide aggregate data to feed into national and local policy and planning. Progress on this aim has been slow, in part because inst…
Family Placements from a Chinese Institution
In this article Chris Beckett and June Thoburn look at an innovative fostering project in Shanghai, which places children from a large children's institution. They consider placement outcomes for 220 children placed over a two-year period. A number of variables are discussed which might impact on placement outcomes, including age, gender, level of disability, length of time spent in the institution and age at time of placement. The length of time…
School breakfast clubs, children and family support
School breakfast clubs are a form of before school provision serving breakfast to children who arrive early. This paper explores their potential to provide support for families at risk of social exclusion. A national evaluation of a Department of Health pilot initiative suggests that their provision can afford valued support to families coping with varying degrees of difficulty in their material, environmental, relational and social circumstances…
The Colour of Difference
Sarah Armstrong and Petrina Slaytor (eds) The Federation Press, Sydney, 2001, 200 pp. AUS$33.95. ISBN 1 86287 397 6
Research Review
This paper considers some of the available published research on family support services for minority ethnic families. In addressing this aspect of social work with minority ethnic families, we seek to make a contribution to the knowledge base of practitioners. The paper begins with an overview of what is known about family support services for particular minority ethnic groups, before exploring three specific areas: family centres, a home visiti…
Beyond attachment theory and therapy
Elements of attachment theory have been embraced by practitioners endeavouring to assist foster and adopted children and their parents. Attachment theory articulates the potential risks of experiencing multiple caregivers; emphasizes the importance of close social relationships to development; and recognizes that substitute parents may not always have close relationships with children who have experienced adversities before joining them. Attachme…
Children Starting to be Looked After by Local Authorities in England
This paper presents findings from a study of children looked after by 24 local authorities in England. The study combined analysis of key statistical data with a questionnaire survey completed by the social workers for a sub-sample of the children. This paper focuses on children who started a period of being looked after in the participating authorities during the 6 months from October 2000 to March 2001. The study found considerable variation be…
The Search For Stability and Permanence
This paper presents findings from a study of children looked after by 24 local authorities. It combines analysis of statistical data with analysis of qualitative and quantitative data from a questionnaire survey of a targeted sub-sample of children who had been looked after for 4 years or more. The paper highlights a complex picture of continuity and discontinuity in attempts to achieve stability and permanence in a range of birth family, foster …
Research Review
This paper reviews the research on the referral of minority ethnic children to child and family social work teams because of child protection concerns. Specifically, it focuses on those studies that have researched the referral stage of the child ‘in need’ and child protection systems, and explored differences in patterns of referral between the main ethnic groups that make up the UK population
Your Shout! Looked After Children's Perspectives on the Children Act 1989
Ten years after the implementation of the Children Act 1989 in England and Wales, a review of how its main provisions were working out in practice was undertaken by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC). This article reports on a survey of the views of 735 children and young people who were looked after by UK local authorities and discusses some of the implications for policy and practice as the Adoption and Child…
Can the Corporate State Parent
Discussions about provision for children in the care of the state have continually raised the question, can the corporate state parent? Roger Bullock, Mark E Courtney, Roy Parker, Ian Sinclair and June Thoburn consider the question in the light of recent studies of separated children. It is argued that while the state does not need to fulfil all parenting responsibilities when care is shared with families or children are adopted, for three groups…
Can the corporate state parent
Psychology (48 obras) · Medicine (34 obras) · Child Welfare and Adoption (31 obras) · Political science (30 obras) · Nursing (26 obras) · Sociology (23 obras) · Law (21 obras) · Child Abuse and Trauma (20 obras) · Law (20 obras) · Business (17 obras)