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Professor Carlene Firmin's Outputs (4)

Holding It Together? Professional Perspectives on the Role of Relationships when Relocating Young People due to Extra-familial Harm (2021)
Journal Article
Firmin, C., & Owens, R. (2022). Holding It Together? Professional Perspectives on the Role of Relationships when Relocating Young People due to Extra-familial Harm. International Journal on Child Maltreatment, 5(2), 231-255. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42448-021-00106-5

When young people come to harm in extra-familial contexts, professionals may move them a distance from their home community to protect them, and in doing so disrupt relationships in which they have encountered harm. However, relocations can also frac... Read More about Holding It Together? Professional Perspectives on the Role of Relationships when Relocating Young People due to Extra-familial Harm.

From ‘no further action’ to taking action: England’s shifting social work responses to extra-familial harm (2021)
Journal Article
Firmin, C., Lloyd, J., Walker, J., & Owens, R. (2022). From ‘no further action’ to taking action: England’s shifting social work responses to extra-familial harm. Critical and Radical Social Work, 10(1), 57–75. https://doi.org/10.1332/204986021x16231574711145

In 2018, England’s safeguarding guidelines were amended to explicitly recognise a need for child protection responses to extra-familial harms. This article explores the feasibility of these amendments, using quantitative and qualitative analysis of c... Read More about From ‘no further action’ to taking action: England’s shifting social work responses to extra-familial harm.

Last Resort or Best Interest? Exploring the Risk and Safety Factors That Inform the Rates of Relocation for Young People Abused in Extra-Familial Settings (2021)
Journal Article
Firmin, C., Wroe, L., & Bernard, D. (2022). Last Resort or Best Interest? Exploring the Risk and Safety Factors That Inform the Rates of Relocation for Young People Abused in Extra-Familial Settings. The British Journal of Social Work, 52(1), 573–592. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcab106

When young people are harmed in extra-familial settings children’s services may place them into care at a distance from their home authority to remove them from contexts in which they are considered ‘at risk’. Guidance and regulation suggest such int... Read More about Last Resort or Best Interest? Exploring the Risk and Safety Factors That Inform the Rates of Relocation for Young People Abused in Extra-Familial Settings.