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Giving up the ghost: Findings on fathers and social work from a study of pre-birth child protection (2021)
Journal Article
Critchley, A. (2022). Giving up the ghost: Findings on fathers and social work from a study of pre-birth child protection. Qualitative Social Work, 21(3), 580-601. https://doi.org/10.1177/14733250211019463

This article reports findings from an ethnographic study of pre-birth child protection, conducted in an urban Scottish setting. The study was designed to explore the interactions between practitioners and families in the context of child protection i... Read More about Giving up the ghost: Findings on fathers and social work from a study of pre-birth child protection.

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.

Jumping Through Hoops: Families' Experiences of Pre-birth Child Protection (2019)
Book Chapter
Critchley, A. (2019). Jumping Through Hoops: Families' Experiences of Pre-birth Child Protection. In L. Murray, L. McDonnell, T. Hinton-Smith, N. Ferreira, & K. Walsh (Eds.), Families in Motion: Ebbing and Flowing through Space and Time (135-154). Bingley: Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78769-415-620191009

This chapter considers the mobilities of families subject to child protection involvement at the threshold of the birth of a new baby. The author presents data arising from an ethnographic study of child protection social work with unborn babies. Thi... Read More about Jumping Through Hoops: Families' Experiences of Pre-birth Child Protection.

Quickening Steps: An ethnography of pre-birth child protection (2019)
Thesis
Critchley, A. Quickening Steps: An ethnography of pre-birth child protection. (Thesis). University of Edinburgh. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2328160

This thesis is a study of pre-birth child protection practice in the Scottish context. The ‘quickening’ in the title refers not just to the movement in utero of the unborn babies at the centre of this research, but also to the intensification of UK p... Read More about Quickening Steps: An ethnography of pre-birth child protection.

Pre-birth child protection (2018)
Report
Critchley, A. (2018). Pre-birth child protection. Glasgow: Iriss

Key points Pre-birth involvement forms a small but increasing part of child protection work in Scotland Social workers have the task of protecting the unborn baby from current risk and making a plan for predicted risks, at the same time as maki... Read More about Pre-birth child protection.