Youth Justice and Social Work (Transforming Social Work Practice Series)

Structured around the National Occupational Standards, this book takes a practical approach to youth justice within social work programmes, focusing on social work in a multi-agency, multi disciplinary youth offending team. Using case studies and research, this text helps readers to develop skills that support youth justice, as well as to understand debates in youth justice policy and practice, including the competing issues of welfare and justice. It is suitable for those on the social work degree as well as criminology and criminal justice students hoping to understand social work practice in a youth justice context.

Paul Dugmore is clinical lecturer in social work and senior social worker in the Child and Family Department at the Tavistock Clinic, part of the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust.

His post is split equally between clinical work and teaching. Clinically, Paul is based in a CAMHS team working with children individually, with parents or with families. He teaches on courses within the CAMHS cluster where he is organising tutor for the MA - From Safeguarding to Permanence: Psychodynamic and Systemic Therapeutic Practice with Children in Complex Settings. He has also led on a capacity building programme relating to promoting the mental health and wellbeing of children. Paul is undertaking doctoral research focussing on how social workers engage with children’s emotional lives and is currently undertaking training in Video Feedback Intervention to Promote Positive Parenting (VIPP) and the Dynamic Maturational Model of Attachment (DMM) at the Tavistock Clinic.

He retains an interest in social work supervision, practice learning and the ASYE programme.

Sally Angus is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work and Practice Learning Manager at Middlesex University. Her work experience includes nursing and many years′ experience of working with victims of crime and practice teaching. She has a particular interest in restorative justice and child victims of crime. Sally is currently a panel member for a Youth Offending Team.

Jane Pickford is a Senior Lecturer in Law and Criminology at the University of East London. She has extensive experience of working within the youth justice field, particularly within the court arena for a London Youth Offending Service.