Credits

1. Copyright

All material in this learning object, including text, graphics, photographs, video and audio is copyright of the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), unless otherwise stated. The use of this learning resource for any commercial purposes is not authorised unless permission is first obtained from SCIE.

2. Authors

The authors of this e-learning resource are:

Salina Bates
Information Manager, Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)

Salina Bates has a BSc. Hons. in Experimental Psychology and a MSc. Applied Forensic Psychology. She has experience working in the field of criminal justice as a researcher for Sussex police force and as a research analyst at West Sussex Youth Offending Team (YOT). Her work included developing performance of the YOT, evaluation of interventions and European research into links between domestic violence and youth offending patterns.

Salina has been at SCIE for 4 years working as a team and project manager. Salina’s main current roles are to manage SCIE’s work programme support team, project manage the organisation’s research briefing series, co-project manage the children of prisoners project at SCIE and develop the internal information retrieval and scoping elements of the organisation's work.

Salina has published on links between domestic violence and youth offending and systematic mapping.

Sara Lewis
Practice Development Manager, Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)

Sara Lewis is a registered social worker who is a practice development manager at SCIE. Sara began her career as a probation officer, before moving to work in the mental health unit at the National Association for Care and Resettlement of Offenders. She subsequently worked for Revolving Doors Agency, delivering services to vulnerable people in the criminal justice system, before joining SCIE in 2003.

3. Technical development

The e-learning resources were programmed and designed by Cogapp.