Mary Baginsky
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4460358 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Mary Baginsky |
| PRENOMES | Mary |
| SOBRENOME | Baginsky |
| ASSINATURA | BAGINSKY M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8763-2363 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2016 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Parents with a learning disability in contact with social care and the courts
The number of parents with a learning disability (LD) is not known and there are poor data available on the number in contact with adult or children's social care services in England. Policy initiatives on LD that emerged in the early years of this century have failed to be implemented as envisaged. Over 330 professionals across social care, health, law, and other sectors Contributed to interviews and case studies. Findings Across social care the…
Trust, trauma and the ‘postcode lottery’
Parents with learning disabilities in England are disproportionately subject to child protection intervention and child removal, yet post-removal support remains uneven and poorly understood. This study examined what support adult and children’s social care and allied agencies provided to these parents, and how professional relationships shaped both access to services and trust. The interviews with nine parents recruited via advocacy and voluntar…
Toward a definition of professional identity for social work
Defining professional identity has long been a contested matter, even more so in social work with ongoing questions about our professional status. To address these questions, this article explores how professional identity is theorized, defined, and/or measured in peer-reviewed social work literature by reporting on a subset of findings from a scoping review. The search protocol produced a total dataset of ninety-one peer-reviewed articles, sixty…
Mechanisms that impact the experience and sustainability of the professional identity of social workers
This paper identifies mechanisms that impact the professional identity of qualified social workers. Professional identity has become a focal point in social work, especially considering contemporary neoliberal settings and pressing global concerns about workplace conditions affecting the status of the profession. On this basis, a scoping literature review was implemented with an aim to identify how professional identity is experienced, sustained,…
No quick fixes
The failure of public agencies such as children’s social care (CSC), health and the police to share information about children and families has been repeatedly identified as a factor contributing to missed opportunities to protect children from harm in England. Specific failings relating to information on men in children’s lives who may pose a danger have also been highlighted, including in the Myth of the Invisible Men report published by the Ch…
Experiences of in-person violence and cyberviolence against child welfare workers in Canada
Studies conducted in countries across the world have consistently demonstrated high rates of in-person violence towards social workers, and particularly social workers engaged in challenging areas of practice such as child welfare. More recently, research has focused on the cyberworld as a new avenue for abuse against workers. Employing an online survey, this research sought to compare the experiences and effects of in-person violence and cybervi…
Parents’ views on improving relationships with their social workers
In England, the reason why most families have a social worker is because their children have been identified as having suffered or being at risk of suffering significant harm from abuse or neglect or requiring a statutory service for another need. Research has shown that positive relationships between social workers and families are essential. A study to evaluate Signs of Safety (Sofs) provided the opportunity to explore the quality of this relat…
Making Sense of Risk
‘Risk’ has become a central concept for social work practice in countries with more developed social welfare systems. As argued by Hazel Kemshall and colleagues, ‘risk’ has often replaced ‘need’ as the main driver for social work interventions as societies seek to avoid harm to citizens. This shift of focus raises a tension between care (support for the individual or family in their own right) and control (seeking to prevent harm to themselves, e…
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…
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…
Changing English Local Authority Duties by the Adoption of Easements in the Covid-19 Pandemic; Findings from an Interview-Based Study
This article reports findings from a study on the effect of the adjustments or ‘easements’ that were made to the 2014 Care Act when measures to manage the impact of COVID-19 were introduced in England in 2020. Only eight local authorities (LAs) implemented the changes permitted. The experiences of five are explored in this article. Data were collected in 2021 through interviews with Directors of Adult Social Services and other senior managers in …
Home Education in England
For a small number of parents home education is a preferred alternative to school and in England more parents are taking up this option. This has refuelled a long-running debate about the adequacy of a regulatory framework under which parents are not required to register their children as home educated and provision is not routinely monitored. This article highlights concerns regarding the ability of local authorities to fulfil their duty to safe…
The Coronavirus Act’s Easements to the Care Act 2014
Easements to the Care Act 2014 were introduced in England in Spring 2020 to support local authorities (LAs) who were dealing with the impact of COVID-19 on adult social care. They were adopted by a small number of LAs that only kept them in place for a very short period. This article draws on the limited literature covering easements and on a synthesis of the views of twenty key informants with professional experiences of social care policy, advo…
She Made You Feel like There’s Hope’
Recent years have seen a re-emergence of international interest in relationship-based social work. This article uses children’s accounts of their relationships with social workers to build on previous research to promote children’s safety and well-being. Interviews were undertaken with 111 children aged six- to eighteen-years old across ten different local authorities in England, as part of the evaluation of Munro, Turnell and Murphy’s Signs of S…
The Framework for the Assessment of Children in Need and Their Families and Signs of Safety
Signs of Safety (SoS) is a comprehensive assessment framework (AF) used in some form in most English children’s service departments as well as in many other countries. The Framework for the Assessment of Children in Need and their Families (AF) was introduced nearly twenty years ago to address identified failures to adopt a holistic approach to assessments of families where there were concerns that children were in need of protection or support. …
New Orleans intervention model
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe and discuss both the early implementation of a US mental health intervention for young children in the context of its introduction to a pilot site in a London borough and the progress made in establishing a randomised controlled trial (RCT). Design/methodology/approach This paper describes an evaluation of a new intervention and the learning that followed in terms of its implementation and future e…
Practice Frameworks in Children’s Services in England
This article examines the concept and adoption of practice frameworks and how these are becoming a key feature of many English local authorities in social work practice with children and families. A practice framework or model either drives practice or groups together various approaches. The article draws on data drawn from an evaluation of Signs of Safety, supplemented by a later survey, and a roundtable discussion with practitioners, researcher…
Signs of Safety
Purpose Signs of Safety (SoS) is a strengths-based approach to child protection casework that has been widely adopted in countries across the world. The purpose of this paper is to report on a study that aimed to synthesise the many evaluations of SoS that have been conducted to assess their strengths and limitations. The intention is to identify the aspects which should be explored further and those that remain unexamined to inform future evalua…
An Examination of Support and Development Mechanisms for Newly Qualified Social Workers Across the UK
This paper examines support and development mechanisms in national graduate qualifying programmes in social work in the United Kingdom (UK), to identify possible implications for policy, research and consultation for Australia. Notwithstanding the Australian Association of Social Work’s Supervision Standards, the Association has not made specific provisions for new graduates within its policies relating to professional standards or continuing pro…
Working with Signs of Safety
Signs of Safety (SoS) is an approach used to work with families involved with children's services that was developed in Australia during the 1990s. Despite the fact that it has been adopted by countries across the globe, the evidence for its effectiveness in relation to improved outcomes for children has not been established. This study attempted to take an initial step in measuring the impact of SoS on families. In the course of evaluating SoS i…
School Social Work
When I was asked to review this book, I was delighted to accept. The title reflects my own interest in the subject, although the history of school social work in this country is relatively short and under-developed. There was a time when some education welfare officers (EWOs) were also qualified social workers and there were also authorities that even seconded workers onto social work qualification courses. This practice was never widespread and …
The Views and Experiences of Step Up to Social Work Graduates
In spring 2012, the first cohort of trainees (n = 168) qualified as social workers through a new English fast-track, employer-led programme: Step Up to Social Work (SUSW). This paper reports findings from a survey of this first cohort undertaken in 2014. Of the 145 approached, 138 responded (95 per cent response rate). Survey responses were analysed using SPSS version 21 and the free-text responses were explored thematically using the Framework a…
Social Work
The book is one in a long and illustrious list of publications in this series that covers different professions, ideologies and activities. The series is described by Oxford University Press as: ‘Ideal for train journeys, holidays, and as a quick catch-up for busy people who want something intellectually stimulating, Very Short Introductions combine authoritative analysis, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make often challenging topics highly readable…
Practice Frameworks in Children’s Services in England
This article examines the concept and adoption of practice frameworks and how these are becoming a key feature of many English local authorities in social work practice with children and families. A practice framework or model either drives practice or groups together various approaches. The article draws on data drawn from an evaluation of Signs of Safety, supplemented by a later survey, and a roundtable discussion with practitioners, researcher…
Signs of Safety
Purpose Signs of Safety (SoS) is a strengths-based approach to child protection casework that has been widely adopted in countries across the world. The purpose of this paper is to report on a study that aimed to synthesise the many evaluations of SoS that have been conducted to assess their strengths and limitations. The intention is to identify the aspects which should be explored further and those that remain unexamined to inform future evalua…
Working with Signs of Safety
Signs of Safety (SoS) is an approach used to work with families involved with children's services that was developed in Australia during the 1990s. Despite the fact that it has been adopted by countries across the globe, the evidence for its effectiveness in relation to improved outcomes for children has not been established. This study attempted to take an initial step in measuring the impact of SoS on families. In the course of evaluating SoS i…
The Views and Experiences of Step Up to Social Work Graduates
In spring 2012, the first cohort of trainees (n = 168) qualified as social workers through a new English fast-track, employer-led programme: Step Up to Social Work (SUSW). This paper reports findings from a survey of this first cohort undertaken in 2014. Of the 145 approached, 138 responded (95 per cent response rate). Survey responses were analysed using SPSS version 21 and the free-text responses were explored thematically using the Framework a…
Mechanisms that impact the experience and sustainability of the professional identity of social workers
This paper identifies mechanisms that impact the professional identity of qualified social workers. Professional identity has become a focal point in social work, especially considering contemporary neoliberal settings and pressing global concerns about workplace conditions affecting the status of the profession. On this basis, a scoping literature review was implemented with an aim to identify how professional identity is experienced, sustained,…
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…
Changing English Local Authority Duties by the Adoption of Easements in the Covid-19 Pandemic; Findings from an Interview-Based Study
This article reports findings from a study on the effect of the adjustments or ‘easements’ that were made to the 2014 Care Act when measures to manage the impact of COVID-19 were introduced in England in 2020. Only eight local authorities (LAs) implemented the changes permitted. The experiences of five are explored in this article. Data were collected in 2021 through interviews with Directors of Adult Social Services and other senior managers in …
The Coronavirus Act’s Easements to the Care Act 2014
Easements to the Care Act 2014 were introduced in England in Spring 2020 to support local authorities (LAs) who were dealing with the impact of COVID-19 on adult social care. They were adopted by a small number of LAs that only kept them in place for a very short period. This article draws on the limited literature covering easements and on a synthesis of the views of twenty key informants with professional experiences of social care policy, advo…
An Examination of Support and Development Mechanisms for Newly Qualified Social Workers Across the UK
This paper examines support and development mechanisms in national graduate qualifying programmes in social work in the United Kingdom (UK), to identify possible implications for policy, research and consultation for Australia. Notwithstanding the Australian Association of Social Work’s Supervision Standards, the Association has not made specific provisions for new graduates within its policies relating to professional standards or continuing pro…
The Views and Experiences of Step Up to Social Work Graduates
In spring 2012, the first cohort of trainees (n = 168) qualified as social workers through a new English fast-track, employer-led programme: Step Up to Social Work (SUSW). This paper reports findings from a survey of this first cohort undertaken in 2014. Of the 145 approached, 138 responded (95 per cent response rate). Survey responses were analysed using SPSS version 21 and the free-text responses were explored thematically using the Framework a…
Social Work
The book is one in a long and illustrious list of publications in this series that covers different professions, ideologies and activities. The series is described by Oxford University Press as: ‘Ideal for train journeys, holidays, and as a quick catch-up for busy people who want something intellectually stimulating, Very Short Introductions combine authoritative analysis, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make often challenging topics highly readable…
School Social Work
When I was asked to review this book, I was delighted to accept. The title reflects my own interest in the subject, although the history of school social work in this country is relatively short and under-developed. There was a time when some education welfare officers (EWOs) were also qualified social workers and there were also authorities that even seconded workers onto social work qualification courses. This practice was never widespread and …
Signs of Safety
Purpose Signs of Safety (SoS) is a strengths-based approach to child protection casework that has been widely adopted in countries across the world. The purpose of this paper is to report on a study that aimed to synthesise the many evaluations of SoS that have been conducted to assess their strengths and limitations. The intention is to identify the aspects which should be explored further and those that remain unexamined to inform future evalua…
An Examination of Support and Development Mechanisms for Newly Qualified Social Workers Across the UK
This paper examines support and development mechanisms in national graduate qualifying programmes in social work in the United Kingdom (UK), to identify possible implications for policy, research and consultation for Australia. Notwithstanding the Australian Association of Social Work’s Supervision Standards, the Association has not made specific provisions for new graduates within its policies relating to professional standards or continuing pro…
Working with Signs of Safety
Signs of Safety (SoS) is an approach used to work with families involved with children's services that was developed in Australia during the 1990s. Despite the fact that it has been adopted by countries across the globe, the evidence for its effectiveness in relation to improved outcomes for children has not been established. This study attempted to take an initial step in measuring the impact of SoS on families. In the course of evaluating SoS i…
New Orleans intervention model
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe and discuss both the early implementation of a US mental health intervention for young children in the context of its introduction to a pilot site in a London borough and the progress made in establishing a randomised controlled trial (RCT). Design/methodology/approach This paper describes an evaluation of a new intervention and the learning that followed in terms of its implementation and future e…
Practice Frameworks in Children’s Services in England
This article examines the concept and adoption of practice frameworks and how these are becoming a key feature of many English local authorities in social work practice with children and families. A practice framework or model either drives practice or groups together various approaches. The article draws on data drawn from an evaluation of Signs of Safety, supplemented by a later survey, and a roundtable discussion with practitioners, researcher…
She Made You Feel like There’s Hope’
Recent years have seen a re-emergence of international interest in relationship-based social work. This article uses children’s accounts of their relationships with social workers to build on previous research to promote children’s safety and well-being. Interviews were undertaken with 111 children aged six- to eighteen-years old across ten different local authorities in England, as part of the evaluation of Munro, Turnell and Murphy’s Signs of S…
The Framework for the Assessment of Children in Need and Their Families and Signs of Safety
Signs of Safety (SoS) is a comprehensive assessment framework (AF) used in some form in most English children’s service departments as well as in many other countries. The Framework for the Assessment of Children in Need and their Families (AF) was introduced nearly twenty years ago to address identified failures to adopt a holistic approach to assessments of families where there were concerns that children were in need of protection or support. …
The Coronavirus Act’s Easements to the Care Act 2014
Easements to the Care Act 2014 were introduced in England in Spring 2020 to support local authorities (LAs) who were dealing with the impact of COVID-19 on adult social care. They were adopted by a small number of LAs that only kept them in place for a very short period. This article draws on the limited literature covering easements and on a synthesis of the views of twenty key informants with professional experiences of social care policy, advo…
Parents’ views on improving relationships with their social workers
In England, the reason why most families have a social worker is because their children have been identified as having suffered or being at risk of suffering significant harm from abuse or neglect or requiring a statutory service for another need. Research has shown that positive relationships between social workers and families are essential. A study to evaluate Signs of Safety (Sofs) provided the opportunity to explore the quality of this relat…
Making Sense of Risk
‘Risk’ has become a central concept for social work practice in countries with more developed social welfare systems. As argued by Hazel Kemshall and colleagues, ‘risk’ has often replaced ‘need’ as the main driver for social work interventions as societies seek to avoid harm to citizens. This shift of focus raises a tension between care (support for the individual or family in their own right) and control (seeking to prevent harm to themselves, e…
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…
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…
Changing English Local Authority Duties by the Adoption of Easements in the Covid-19 Pandemic; Findings from an Interview-Based Study
This article reports findings from a study on the effect of the adjustments or ‘easements’ that were made to the 2014 Care Act when measures to manage the impact of COVID-19 were introduced in England in 2020. Only eight local authorities (LAs) implemented the changes permitted. The experiences of five are explored in this article. Data were collected in 2021 through interviews with Directors of Adult Social Services and other senior managers in …
Home Education in England
For a small number of parents home education is a preferred alternative to school and in England more parents are taking up this option. This has refuelled a long-running debate about the adequacy of a regulatory framework under which parents are not required to register their children as home educated and provision is not routinely monitored. This article highlights concerns regarding the ability of local authorities to fulfil their duty to safe…
Toward a definition of professional identity for social work
Defining professional identity has long been a contested matter, even more so in social work with ongoing questions about our professional status. To address these questions, this article explores how professional identity is theorized, defined, and/or measured in peer-reviewed social work literature by reporting on a subset of findings from a scoping review. The search protocol produced a total dataset of ninety-one peer-reviewed articles, sixty…
Mechanisms that impact the experience and sustainability of the professional identity of social workers
This paper identifies mechanisms that impact the professional identity of qualified social workers. Professional identity has become a focal point in social work, especially considering contemporary neoliberal settings and pressing global concerns about workplace conditions affecting the status of the profession. On this basis, a scoping literature review was implemented with an aim to identify how professional identity is experienced, sustained,…
No quick fixes
The failure of public agencies such as children’s social care (CSC), health and the police to share information about children and families has been repeatedly identified as a factor contributing to missed opportunities to protect children from harm in England. Specific failings relating to information on men in children’s lives who may pose a danger have also been highlighted, including in the Myth of the Invisible Men report published by the Ch…
Experiences of in-person violence and cyberviolence against child welfare workers in Canada
Studies conducted in countries across the world have consistently demonstrated high rates of in-person violence towards social workers, and particularly social workers engaged in challenging areas of practice such as child welfare. More recently, research has focused on the cyberworld as a new avenue for abuse against workers. Employing an online survey, this research sought to compare the experiences and effects of in-person violence and cybervi…
Parents with a learning disability in contact with social care and the courts
The number of parents with a learning disability (LD) is not known and there are poor data available on the number in contact with adult or children's social care services in England. Policy initiatives on LD that emerged in the early years of this century have failed to be implemented as envisaged. Over 330 professionals across social care, health, law, and other sectors Contributed to interviews and case studies. Findings Across social care the…
Trust, trauma and the ‘postcode lottery’
Parents with learning disabilities in England are disproportionately subject to child protection intervention and child removal, yet post-removal support remains uneven and poorly understood. This study examined what support adult and children’s social care and allied agencies provided to these parents, and how professional relationships shaped both access to services and trust. The interviews with nine parents recruited via advocacy and voluntar…
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