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Perspectives on the Memorandum

First published 1997 by Ashgate Publishing

Reissued 2018 by Routledge

2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN

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Copyright Helen Westcott and Jocelyn Jones 1997

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A Library of Congress record exists under LC control number: 97019596

ISBN 13: 978-1-138-33285-0 (hbk)

ISBN 13: 978-1-138-33287-4 (pbk)

ISBN 13: 978-0-429-44633-7 (ebk)

Contents

Graham Davies and Clare Wilson

John Brownlow and Brian Waller

Tony Butler

Teresa ONeill

Amanda Wade and Helen Westcott

Ruth Marchant and Marcus Page

Anna Gupta

J.R. Spencer

Liz Davies

Jan Aldridge

Enid Hendry and Jocelyn Jones

Sarah Nelson

Helen Westcott and Jocelyn Jones

Guide

Jan Aldridge is Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology and Director, Child Forensic Studies at the University of Leeds, and Honorary Consultant Psychologist in Leeds Community and Mental Health Trust. She has developed training initiatives in child psychology and the law with agencies throughout the country, including the police, social services, and the judiciary. She researches and publishes in the area of child witnesses and regularly provides expert evidence to the courts on matters relating to children.

John Brownlow has a background in child protection work with local authorities in London. In 1991, after five years as team manager with the NSPCC in Haringey he became Principal Officer, with lead responsibility for child protection, in Leicestershire. In 1996 he was appointed Area Childrens Services Manager for NSPCC East Region.

Tony Butler is Chief Constable of Gloucestershire Constabulary, and is the ACPO representative concerning the Memorandum.

Graham Davies is Professor of Psychology at Leicester University. He has extensive experience in researching childrens testimony, and has recently evaluated Livelinks and videotaped evidence and the Memorandum on behalf of the Home Office.

Liz Davies is a child protection manager, with responsibility for multi-agency training, in an outer London Borough. She qualified in 1972 and has worked as a lecturer in social work and as a generic social worker. Having worked for the London Borough of Islington, she presented evidence through BASW to the recent child abuse inquiries.

Anna Gupta is team manager of a child protection team in a London Borough social services department. She has considerable multi-cultural experience as a practitioner and manager within busy inner city teams, and recently graduated with an MA in Child Protection Studies from Leicester University.

Enid Hendry is Head of Child Protection Training for the NSPCC. She has a social work background and has been involved in child care training since 1982. She helped develop and run Joint Investigation and Interview Training in Nottinghamshire and has a particular interest in inter-agency training. Her published work includes Preparing Child Witnesses for Court (Leicester: NSPCC, 1994) and Creative Work with Families (Birmingham: British Association of Social Workers, 1986).

Jocelyn Jones is the Course Director of the post-qualifying Child Protection Studies programme at Leicester University. She has extensive experience in social work practice, management and education. Her research interests centre on the empowerment of child victims, and she has published and presented papers at national and international conferences on this theme. In the field of education and training, she is committed to the development of practitioner research and has developed a national conference and seminar programme to promote research initiatives by practitioners. Jocelyn also writes on current issues in post-qualifying education and training, and is working on the development of competence-based workplace learning and assessment of child protection workers.

Ruth Marchant is development manager and child protection coordinator at Chailey Heritage, a specialist centre for children and young people with physical and multiple disabilities in Sussex. She was one of the consortium of four who produced the ABCD pack a resource pack on abuse and children who are disabled.

Sarah Nelson is author of Incest: Fact and Myth (Edinburgh: Strumullion, 1987), one of the first British feminist analyses of sexual abuse, and has been a regular contributor to conferences on sexual abuse. She is a professional journalist and is currently writing her second book on sexual abuse.

Teresa ONeill is an experienced guardian ad litem. She has recently graduated from Leicester University with an MA in Child Protection Studies, and is currently undertaking research for a PhD at the University of Bristol.

Marcus Page is a senior social work practitioner at the Claremont Child Protection Unit in Brighton, where the multidisciplinary team provides an assessment and therapeutic service for all forms of child abuse. He has written a number of papers on the investigation of sexual abuse and is currently training as a Group-Analytic Psychotherapist.

J.R. Spencer is a Professor of Law at Cambridge University, where his main interest is criminal procedure and evidence. He has written, with Professor Rhona Flin, The Evidence of Children: The Law and the Psychology (2nd edition, London: Blackstone Press, 1993.) He has travelled widely, frequently lecturing in universities in France.

Amanda Wade is currently studying at the University of Leeds, where she is completing a doctoral thesis on the child witness and the criminal justice process. She previously worked in the personal social services as a practitioner and manager.

Brian Waller has been Director of Social Services in Leicestershire since 1988, and is currently Chair of the Children and Families Committee of the Association of Directors of Social Services (ADSS). He has recently been elected as Junior Vice President of the Association and will assume the post of President of the ADSS in 1998. Brian is associated with a number of voluntary organisations and is an adviser to the Association of County Councils and the Princes Trust.

Helen Westcott is Lecturer in Psychology at The Open University. She was previously Research Officer with the NSPCC in London, and has studied many aspects of childrens testimony for a number of years. She has trained and published widely on this and related areas, including childrens experiences of social work intervention and the abuse of disabled children.

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