See below for link to a useful review.
Paul
Paul Bywaters
Professor of Social Work,
Child and Family Research,
CTEHR, Richard Crossman Building,
Faculty of Health and Life Sciences,
Coventry University,
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From: Radcliffe, Polly <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 22 August 2017 09:36
To: Paul Bywaters
Subject: RE: JRF report
Hi Paul,
Here is a link for a rapid evidence review of studies looking at the impact of substance use and losing care of children. We had wanted to focus on alcohol use alone but there are not the studies.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0145213417302016
BW
Polly
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From: Paul Bywaters [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 21 August 2017 15:26
To: Radcliffe, Polly <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: JRF report
That's very interesting. Have you done a lit review of the evidence around alcohol and child protection? I'd be interested to see it if you have. There seems to be so much taken for granted round the toxic trio including lots of really flawed research.
Paul
Paul Bywaters
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Child and Family Research,
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Faculty of Health and Life Sciences,
Coventry University,
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From: Radcliffe, Polly <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 21 August 2017 10:27:55
To: Paul Bywaters
Subject: RE: JRF report
Hi Paul,
Thanks for your email. I'm looking at qualitative interviews with social workers about cases where child care proceedings were pursued mainly because of concerns about maternal alcohol use. I agree re toxic trio discourse. What's interesting is that although domestic violence, poverty/scarcity and mental health problems feature in many of the cases described, alcohol misuse and/or failure to engage with treatment would seem to be focused upon by social workers as evidence of a mother's lack of motivation or desire to change (over and above the complexities of the impact of DV, mental health problems and poverty). Previous social services involvement, sometimes in previous generations seems, in these accounts to warrant further intervention and removal of children - so the population of 'known' families is recycled. This is very much work in progress.
BW
Polly
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From: Paul Bywaters [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 21 August 2017 09:34
To: Radcliffe, Polly <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: JRF report
Polly,
I don't think this statement was based on a specific piece of research. There is a great deal of focus through the widespread rather uncritical acceptance of the so-called 'toxic trio' on a relationship between substance use and child abuse and neglect which almost completely fails to take account of the intervening role of poverty. Many well off parents drink or do drugs as much or more than many families living in poverty but there is little focus on a link with abuse and neglect for a variety reasons: substance use doesn't create such budgetary pressures and so doesn't create additional problems, parents are better able to buy child care cover and because children's services surveillance is less focused on better off families. But I don't have any direct evidence of that. What is it that you are doing?
Paul
Paul Bywaters
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Child and Family Research,
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Faculty of Health and Life Sciences,
Coventry University,
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From: Radcliffe, Polly <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 18 August 2017 11:37:44
To: Paul Bywaters
Subject: JRF report
Dear Dr Bywaters,
I hope you don't mind my inquiring re your JRF report on the relationship between poverty and child abuse and neglect on a reference you make to substance use:
'parental substance use accompanied by poverty is more likely to lead to contact with child protection services than substance use in a position of affluence'
I wasn't sure whether this statement was linked to the Hooper (2007) study you cite or to other research. This is an area that I'm particularly interested in and currently working on and I'd be really interested in any study focusing on greater surveillance of poor families with substance use problems.
Many thanks
Polly
Dr Polly Radcliffe
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National Addiction Centre
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