All Outputs (5)

Can Knowledge Exchange Forge a Collaborative Pathway to Policymaking? A Case Study Example of the Recognition Matters Project (2020)
Journal Article
Critchley, A., & Mitchell, M. (2020). Can Knowledge Exchange Forge a Collaborative Pathway to Policymaking? A Case Study Example of the Recognition Matters Project. British Journal of Social Work, 50(8), 2298-2318. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcaa220

Knowledge Exchange is considered a way that research might be operationalised beyond the academy, both within policy and practice. This article seeks to analyse knowledge exchange as a method of bringing field, research and policy together. It does s... Read More about Can Knowledge Exchange Forge a Collaborative Pathway to Policymaking? A Case Study Example of the Recognition Matters Project.

Baby brain: Neuroscience, policy making, and child protection (2020)
Journal Article
Critchley-Morris, A. (2020). Baby brain: Neuroscience, policy making, and child protection. Scottish Affairs, 29(4), 512-528. https://doi.org/10.3366/scot.2020.0341

This paper is concerned with the co-opting of neuroscientific findings into social work practice with infants at risk of harm. The value of neuroscience to our understanding of infants and infant care remains contested. For ‘infant mental health’ pro... Read More about Baby brain: Neuroscience, policy making, and child protection.

Making Scotland an ACE-informed nation (2020)
Journal Article
Davidson, E., Critchley, A., & Wright, L. H. (2020). Making Scotland an ACE-informed nation. Scottish Affairs, 29(4), 451-455. https://doi.org/10.3366/scot.2020.0336

In recent years, tackling Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) has become a central dimension of early years, education, youth and family policy. In this Scottish Affairs special issue, we discuss why this public policy has galvanized so much attenti... Read More about Making Scotland an ACE-informed nation.

Changes and Continuities in Adoption Social Work: Adoption in Scotland Since the 1968 Act (2020)
Journal Article
Critchley-Morris, A., Cowan, P., Grant, M., & Hardy, M. (2021). Changes and Continuities in Adoption Social Work: Adoption in Scotland Since the 1968 Act. British Journal of Social Work, 51(6), 2061-2079. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcaa114

This article charts changes and continuities in the social work role in adoption since 1968. The Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 established the Children’s Hearing System, Scotland’s unique approach to child welfare in which lay volunteers make decis... Read More about Changes and Continuities in Adoption Social Work: Adoption in Scotland Since the 1968 Act.

‘The lion's den’: Social workers' understandings of risk to infants (2020)
Journal Article
Critchley, A. (2020). ‘The lion's den’: Social workers' understandings of risk to infants. Child and Family Social Work, 25(4), 895-903. https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.12774

Recent research has highlighted the increasing trends in newborn and very young children entering child welfare processes and care proceedings in a number of countries. Furthermore, differential responses to risk within young families across differen... Read More about ‘The lion's den’: Social workers' understandings of risk to infants.