Browsing by Person "Webb, Calum"

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Inequalities in English child protection practice under austerity: A universal challenge?
(Wiley, 2017-07-17) Bywaters, Paul; Brady, Geraldine; Bunting, Lisa; Daniel, Brigid; Featherstone, Brid; Jones, Chantel; Morris, Kate; Scourfield, Jonathan; Sparks, Tim; Webb, Calum
Social work, poverty, and child welfare interventions
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2018-01-17) Morris, Kate; Mason, Will; Bywaters, Paul; Featherstone, Brid; Daniel, Brigid; Brady, Geraldine; Bunting, Lisa; Hooper, Jade; Mirza, Nughmana; Scourfield, Jonathan; Webb, Calum; ** Funder: Nuffield Foundation; Grant num: Child Welfare Inequalities; FundRef: 10.13039/501100000279
The relationship between children's material circumstances and child abuse and neglect raises a series of questions for policy, practice, and practitioners. Children and families in poverty are significantly more likely to be the subject of state intervention. This article, based on a unique mixed‐methods study of social work interventions and the influence of poverty, highlights a narrative from practitioners that argues that, as many poor families do not harm their children, it is stigmatizing to discuss a link between poverty and child abuse and neglect. The data reveal that poverty has become invisible in practice, in part justified by avoiding stigma but also because of a lack of up‐to‐date research knowledge and investment by some social workers in an “underclass” discourse. We argue, in light of the evidence that poverty is a contributory factor in the risk of harm, that it is vital that social work engages with the evidence and in critical reflection about intervening in the context of poverty. We identify the need for fresh approaches to the harms children and families face in order to support practices that engage confidently with the consequences of poverty and deprivation.
Towards full integration of quantitative and qualitative methods in case study research: Insights from investigating child welfare inequalities
(SAGE, 2019-07-01) Mason, Will; Morris, Kate; Webb, Calum; Daniel, Brigid; Featherstone, Brid; Bywaters, Paul; Mirza, Nughmana; Hooper, Jade; Brady, Geraldine; Bunting, Lisa; Scourfield, Jonathan
Delineation of the full integration of quantitative and qualitative methods throughout all stages of multisite mixed methods case study projects remains a gap in the methodological literature. This article offers advances to the field of mixed methods by detailing the application and integration of mixed methods throughout all stages of one such project; a study of child welfare inequalities. By offering a critical discussion of site selection and the management of confirmatory, expansionary and discordant data, this article contributes to the limited body of mixed methods exemplars specific to this field. We propose that our mixed methods approach provided distinctive insights into a complex social problem, offering expanded understandings of the relationship between poverty, child abuse and neglect.