This section includes presentations made at conferences
We Can’t Afford Child Protection!
This brief video was part of my presentation to a conference in Bulgaria. It argues that Anglo-American child protection systems ...
Social Work Interventions for Children in Scotland: PAR Presentation
Here's my presentation for Parents Advocacy & Rights in Scotland showing how social work intervenes in the lives of children ...
Presentation to Independent Review
Here's my presentation made on 31st May 2021. It's 43 minutes long and a detailed argument. The highlights are: The ...
IPAN Toolkit
This presentation by the Parents, Families and Allies Network for Research in Practice gives an overview of parent advocacy internationally, ...
Social Development
In this video I talk about how social development offers a different paradigm for social work in child protection. It is ...
Chile and Uruguay
My presentation to the UNICEF conference in Chile for Chile and Uruguay. I talk about international trends in child protection ...
Do No Harm
This transcript of my speech was from the "Do No Harm" seminar in Parliament on September 11th 2018 organised by ...
Finland Presentation
My presentation at the Central Union for Child Welfare conference “Equality in everyday life” in Finland 25th October 2018. The ...
Emotional harm
Here's my presentation at the Transparency Project's conference and the Guardian article by Louise Tickle is here based on these ...
We need to change child protection to boot out austerity
Few would doubt that the wide range of cuts in services and increasing child poverty due to austerity policies has ...