Mr Barry Luckock

Biography

I hold professional qualifications in teaching and social work. I have social work practice experience in residential care and fieldwork and as a Guardian ad Litem. I have also served as an elected member on a social services committee. I lectured at the University of Kent before arriving at Sussex in 1988.

Role

I am a Senior Lecturer in Social Work and Social Policy. I currently convene the MA in Social Work and MA in Childhood and Youth Studies programmes.

My research interests are in the fields of social policy and social work with children and in social work education. My recent work has included systematic reviews of social work practice and education, empirical studies of integrated children's services and family policy analysis.

I currently supervise doctoral students working in the following areas:

Sudden and unexpected child death and the professional response

Comparative kinship care policies in three English local authorities

The inter-professional assessment of need in children's services

The developmenat and effectiveness of Local Safeguarding Children Boards

In addition to convening the MA in Social Work and the MA in Childhood and Youth Studies, I teach or contribute to the following courses:

MASW1 Law and Social Policy

MASW1 Human Development and Social Relationships

MASW1 Research Methods

MASW2 Theory, Methods and Values

MASW2 Observation

MASW2 Situating Social Work

Student Consultation

Student consultation is by request.

Luckock, Barry and Broadhurst, Karen (2013) Adoption cases reviewed: an indicative study of process and practice. Project Report. Department of Education, UK.

Luckock, Barry (2011) Book Review: "Churchill's Children: The Evacuee Experience in Wartime Britain", by John Welshman. Critical Social Policy, 31 (1). pp. 159-161. ISSN 0261-0183

Luckock, Barry (2010) The Organisational Context: A 'whole system' for the whole child? Integrated services, inter-professional working and the development of effective practice with children and their families. In: Critical Practice with Children and Young People. Policy Press, Bristol. ISBN 9781847426826

Sebba, Judy, Griffiths, Vivienne, Luckock, Barry, Hunt, Frances, Robinson, Carol and Flowers, Steve (2009) Youth-led innovation: enhancing the skills and capacity of the next generation of innovators. Project Report. National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, London.

Luckock, Barry (2008) Book Review: "Social Policy Review 19: Analysis and Debate in Social Policy". Critical Social Policy, 28 (2). pp. 246-248. ISSN 0261-0183

Lefevre, Michelle, Tanner, Karen and Luckock, Barry (2008) Developing social work students' communication skills with children and young people: a model for the qualifying level curriculum. Child and Family Social Work, 13 (2). pp. 166-176. ISSN 1356-7500

Luckock, Barry (2008) Adoption support and the negotiation of ambivalence in family policy and children's services. Journal of Law and Society, 35 (1). pp. 3-27. ISSN 0263-323X

Luckock, Barry, Simpson, L and Turner, D (2008) Effectiveness in the provision of acute mental health outreach services to children and young people across Sussex. An exploratory research review Commissioned by the Sussex Partnership Trust. Unset. Sussex Partnership Trust.

Lefevre, Michelle and Luckock, Barry (2008) Communicating and Engaging with Children and Young People in Care through Play and the Creative Arts. In: Direct work: Social Work with Children and Young People in Care. British Association for Adoption and Fostering, London, pp. 130-150. ISBN 9781905664290

Luckock, Barry and Lefevre, Michelle (2008) Direct work: Social Work with Children and Young People in Care. British Association for Adoption and Fostering, London, Xxxii + 313. ISBN 9781905664290

Lefevre, Michelle and Luckock, Barry (2008) Knowing, Being and Doing: Core qualities and skills for working with children and young people who are in care. In: Direct Work: Social Work with Children and Young People in Care. British Association for Adoption and Fostering, London, pp. 21-39. ISBN 9781905664290

Luckock, Barry (2008) Living through the Experience: the social worker as the trusted ally and champion of the young people in care. In: Direct work: social work with children and young people in care. British Association for Adoption and Fostering, London. ISBN 9781905664290

Luckock, Barry, Lefevre, Michelle and Tanner, Karen (2007) Teaching and learning communication with children and young people: developing the qualifying social work curriculum in a changing policy context. Child and Family Social Work, 12 (2). pp. 192-201. ISSN 1356-7500

Luckock, Barry (2007) Safeguarding children and integrated children's services. In: The child protection handbook : the practitioner's guide to safeguarding children. Bailliere Tindall, pp. 266-282. ISBN 9780702028298

Lefevre, Michelle, Luckock, Barry, Orr, David, Jones, Mary, Marchant, Ruth and Tanner, Karen (2006) Teaching, Learning and Assessing Communication Skills with Children and Young People in Social Work Education. Project Report. Policy Press, Bristol.

Luckock, Barry and Hart, Angie (2005) Adoptive family life and adoption support: policy ambivalence and the development of effective services. Child and Family Social Work, 10 (2). pp. 125-134. ISSN 1356-7500

Hart, Angie and Luckock, Barry (2004) Developing Adoption Support and Therapy: New Approaches for Practice. Jessica Kingsley Publications. ISBN 9781843101468