Professor Carlene Firmin's Outputs (5)

A line in the sand: Moving from surface improvement to foundational shifts to develop effective responses to extra-familial risks and harms (2024)
Journal Article
Firmin, C., Lefevre, M., Langhoff, K., & Ruch, G. (online). A line in the sand: Moving from surface improvement to foundational shifts to develop effective responses to extra-familial risks and harms. The British Journal of Social Work, Article bcae193. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcae193

For over a decade, UK policymakers have responded to global ambitions to protect children from exploitation and other forms of extra-familial risks and harms by recommending that social workers coordinate local responses. This has required a signific... Read More about A line in the sand: Moving from surface improvement to foundational shifts to develop effective responses to extra-familial risks and harms.

Binaries and Blurred Lines: The Ethical Stress of Child Protection Social Work in the Grey of Extra-Familial Harm (2024)
Journal Article
Firmin, C. (online). Binaries and Blurred Lines: The Ethical Stress of Child Protection Social Work in the Grey of Extra-Familial Harm. Ethics and Social Welfare, https://doi.org/10.1080/17496535.2024.2414963

Social care responses to extra-familial harm require social workers to work across the binaries of welfare and justice, victim and perpetrator, parent and professional, risk and protection. This paper examines the ethical consequences of working in t... Read More about Binaries and Blurred Lines: The Ethical Stress of Child Protection Social Work in the Grey of Extra-Familial Harm.

‘Relocating Adolescents’: The Costs of Out-of-Area Placements as a Response to Extra-Familial Risk/Harm (2024)
Journal Article
Holmes, L., Pinto, V. S., Wroe, L. E., Peace, D., & Firmin, C. (online). ‘Relocating Adolescents’: The Costs of Out-of-Area Placements as a Response to Extra-Familial Risk/Harm. The British Journal of Social Work, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcae109

In the UK, there has been increased awareness of the harm adolescents face beyond their families. There is no national strategy for safeguarding adolescents. One intervention that comes with particularly high costs is relocation placements by childre... Read More about ‘Relocating Adolescents’: The Costs of Out-of-Area Placements as a Response to Extra-Familial Risk/Harm.

‘Known to services’ or ‘Known by professionals’: Relationality at the core of trauma-informed responses to extra-familial harm (2024)
Journal Article
Firmin, C., Langhoff, K., Eyal-Lubling, R., Ana Maglajlic, R., & Lefevre, M. (2024). ‘Known to services’ or ‘Known by professionals’: Relationality at the core of trauma-informed responses to extra-familial harm. Children and Youth Services Review, 160, Article 107595. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.107595

Efforts to shift from criminal justice to welfare-based responses to exploitation and other forms of extra-familial risks and harms, have centred relational approaches. In particular, the role that relationships between professionals and young people... Read More about ‘Known to services’ or ‘Known by professionals’: Relationality at the core of trauma-informed responses to extra-familial harm.

Innovation in Social Care: New Approaches for Young People Affected by Extra-Familial Risks and Harms (2024)
Book
Lefevre, M., Huegler, N., Lloyd, J., Owens, R., Damman, J., Ruch, G., & Firmin, C. (2024). Innovation in Social Care: New Approaches for Young People Affected by Extra-Familial Risks and Harms. Policy Press. https://doi.org/10.51952/9781447371250

Based on the findings of the Innovate Project, a four year pan-UK study to identify the processes of innovation in care this book asks: how can services be re-envisioned and transformed through innovation? The authors provide an overview of the proje... Read More about Innovation in Social Care: New Approaches for Young People Affected by Extra-Familial Risks and Harms.