Law and Social Work Contemporary Issues for Practice

Jane Aldgate is Professor of Social Care at the School of Health and Social Welfare, The Open University. Her research spans many aspects of social policy and social work relating to children and families. She is co-author, with Marie Bradly, of Supporting Families Through Short Term Fostering (1999) and has just completed for the Department of Health an overview of research on the Children Act 1989. Alison Brammer is a Lecturer at the Department of Law at the University of Keele. She previously practised as a solicitor in local government. Her main areas of interest are registered homes and institutional abuse, the construction of elder abuse, and the law relating to adults with learning disabilities. She has published widely in these areas and is the Legal Editor of the Journal of Adult Protection. Suzy Braye is Reader in Social Work at Staffordshire University Isabelle Brodie is a Research Fellow in the Department of Applied Social Studies, University of Luton Tanya Callman is a Barrister specialising in education law and public law in the Inner Temple, London Sarah Chand is a Senior Practitioner with Warwickshire Probation Andrew Cooper is Professor of Social Work at the Tavistock Clinic and University of East London. With Rachael Hetherington and others, he has participated in a range of comparative European child protection research programmes and jointly authored a number of books and papers in this field. Jeremy Cooper is at Middlesex University, where he is Professor of Law and Director of the Disability Law Research Centre. Nicki Cornwell has abandoned professional and academic social work for the pleasures of writing. Her academic publications range from therapeutic work to statementing, social policy issues, anti-discriminatory practice and intercultural social work practice Lesley-Anne Cull is a Lecturer in the School of Health and Social Welfare at The Open University Ann Dale-Emberton is a Tutor on the Diploma in Social Work Programme at Ruskin College, Oxford Guy Dehn is the founding Director of Public Concern at Work, an independent charity that promotes good governance in the public, private and voluntary sectors Ratna Dutt is Director of the Race Equality Unit Philip Ells is a Solicitor at Alan Edwards and Co. in London Stephen Gilmore, LLB, LLM, Barrister, is Senior Lecturer in the Law School at the University of East London Duncan Gore is currently the Training and Development Co-ordinator for the National Association of Child Contact Centres Peter Harris is a Barrister and was, until he retired in 1999, the Official Solicitor to the Supreme Court Ruth Hayman is studying at Peter Symonds' College, Winchester Jeanette Henderson is a Lecturer in the School of Health and Social Welfare at The Open University Rachael Hetherington is Director of the Centre for Comparative Social Work Studies at Brunel University Leonie Jordan is a Solicitor who has practised in local authorities, private practice and the voluntary sector Denzil Lush has been the Master of the Court of Protection since 1996 Ann McDonald is at the School of Social Work and Psychosocial Studies at the University of East Anglia, Norwich Paul Nixon is Commissioning Officer (Family Group Conferences) for Hampshire County Council Social Services Department Nigel Parton is Professor in Child Care and Director of the Centre for Applied Childhood Studies at the University of Huddersfield Michael Preston-Shoot is Professor of Social Work and Social Care at Liverpool John Moores University Jacki Pritchard is an independent consultant, trainer and researcher who specialises in working with abuse, risk and violence Jeremy Roche is a Lecturer in the School of Health and Social Welfare at The Open University Belinda Schwehr is a Solicitor-advocate at the London law firm of Rowe and Maw Anna Souhami is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to do her PhD at the Department of Criminology, Keele University Judith Timms OBE is a Chief Executive of the National Youth Advocacy Services and an Honorary Research Fellow attached to the Centre for the Study of the Child, the Family and the Law, Faculty of Law, University of Liverpool Stuart Vernon is at the School of Law, University of East London Helen Watson is head of the multi-agency Youth Offending Service in Sunderland Penelope Welbourne is at the Department of Social Work and Social Policy, Plymouth University Anne Worrall is at the Department of Criminology, Keele UniversityCull, Lesley-Anne is the author of 'Law and Social Work Contemporary Issues for Practice' with ISBN 9780333961261 and ISBN 0333961269.