Gary Clapton

TL;DR: The authors apply the lens of moral panic to analyse child protection social work in the UK and suggest that many of the anxieties that beset social work are best understood as moral panics and discuss processes in which 'claims-makers' have introduced and amplified concerns into panics.

TL;DR: It is argued that there is a pervasive and influential negative attitude towards fathers, particularly in the children and families field, and there are practice pointers for the greater involvement of fathers.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report on findings from a practice audit and literature review into integration of learning for practice, conducted in Scotland between November 2003 and February 2004, concluding that for integration of Learning for practice to succeed, we need a re-imagining of the traditional boundaries between field and classroom, and practice teacher and social work academic.

TL;DR: The authors argue that although the trafficking of children is clearly both undesirable and unacceptable, the reaction to this issue in the UK has been out of proportion to the problem itself, and that the reaction, they propose, is best understood as a moral panic that must be interrogated if we are to offer a helpful response to what is a serious social problem.