Dr Martin Elliott

Articles

• Elliott, M., Smith, P. and Scourfield, J. 2024. The visibility of a socio-economic dimension in day-to-day child and family social work practice in Wales. The British Journal of Social Work 54(7), pp. 3391-3409., article number: bcae098. (10.1093/bjsw/bcae098)
• Williams, A., Bayfield, H., Elliott, M., Lyttleton-Smith, J., Young, H., Evans, R. and Long, S. 2024. Secure futures? A mixed methods study on opportunities for helping young people referred to secure children's homes for welfare reasons. Journal of Children's Services 19(1), pp. 38-53. (10.1108/JCS-06-2022-0019)
• Scourfield, J. et al. 2023. Retention in statutory social work from fast-track child and family programmes. Journal of Social Work 23(6), pp. 1022-1042. (10.1177/14680173231194432)
• Bennett, C. et al. 2023. Crisis care for children and young people with mental health problems: national mapping, models of delivery, sustainability and experience (CAMH-Crisis2). A study protocol.. NIHR Open Research 3, article number: 22. (10.3310/nihropenres.13414.1)
• Allnatt, G., Elliott, M., Scourfield, J., Lee, A. and Griffiths, L. J. 2022. Use of linked administrative children’s social care data for research: a scoping review of existing UK studies. British Journal of Social Work 52(7), article number: bcac049. (10.1093/bjsw/bcac049)
• Allnatt, G., Lee, A., Scourfield, J., Elliott, M., Broadhurst, K. and Griffiths, L. 2022. Data resource profile: children looked after administrative records in Wales. International Journal of Population Data Science 1(1) (10.23889/ijpds.v7i1.1752)
• Lee, A., Elliott, M., Scourfield, J., Bedston, S., Broadhust, K., Ford, D. V. and Griffiths, L. J. 2022. Data resource: children receiving care and support and children in need, administrative records in Wales. International Journal of Population Data Science 7(1), article number: 8. (10.23889/ijpds.v7i1.1694)
• Scourfield, J., Webb, C. J. R., Elliott, M., Staniland, L. and Bywaters, P. 2021. Are child welfare intervention rates higher or lower in areas targeted for enhanced early years services?. Child Abuse Review 30(4), pp. 306-317. (10.1002/car.2696)
• Webb, C., Bywaters, P., Elliott, M. and Scourfield, J. 2021. Income inequality and child welfare interventions in England and Wales. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 75, pp. 251-257. (10.1136/jech-2020-214501)
• Elliott, M. 2020. Child welfare inequalities in a time of rising numbers of children entering out-of-home care. British Journal of Social Work 50(2), pp. 581-597. (10.1093/bjsw/bcz154)
• Bywaters, P. et al. 2020. Child welfare inequalities in the four nations of the UK. Journal of Social Work 20(2), pp. 193-215. (10.1177/1468017318793479)
• Roberts, L., Maxwell, N. and Elliott, M. 2019. When young people in and leaving state care become parents: What happens and why?. Children and Youth Services Review 104, pp. 104387. (10.1016/j.childyouth.2019.104387)
• McCartan, C., Bunting, L., Bywaters, P., Davidson, G., Elliott, M. and Hooper, J. 2018. A four-nation comparison of kinship care in the UK: the relationship between formal kinship care and deprivation. Social Policy and Society 17(4), pp. 619-635. (10.1017/S1474746418000179)
• McGhee, J., Bunting, L., McCartan, C., Elliott, M., Bywaters, P. and Featherstone, B. 2018. Looking after children in the UK - convergence or divergence?. British Journal of Social Work 48(5), pp. 1176-1198. (10.1093/bjsw/bcx103)
• Elliott, M., Staples, E. and Scourfield, J. 2018. The characteristics of children and young people in residential care in Wales. Child Care in Practice 24(3), pp. 317-330. (10.1080/13575279.2017.1319798)

Book sections

• Elliott, M. 2021. Ending child poverty in 2020 in Wales?. In: Gwilym, H. and Williams, C. eds. Social Policy for Welfare Practice in Wales. 3rd ed.. BASW, pp. 51-63.
• Elliott, M. 2019. Charting the rise of children and young people looked after in Wales. In: Mannay, D., Rees, A. and Roberts, L. eds. Children and Young People ‘Looked After’? Education, Intervention and the Everyday Culture of Care in Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, pp. 15-28.
• Elliott, M. 2015. Quantitative research and the secondary analysis of longitudinal data in social work research. In: Hardwick, L., Smith, R. and Worsley, A. eds. Innovations in Social Work Research. London and Philadelphia: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, pp. 259-273.

Monographs

• Scourfield, J. et al. 2021. Social work fast-track programmes: Retention and progression. Final report. Project Report. [Online]. Department for Education, UK. Available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/social-work-fast-track-programmes-tracking-study
• Williams, A., Bayfield, H., Elliott, M., Lyttleton-Smith, J., Evans, R., Young, H. and Long, S. 2019. The experiences and outcomes of children and young people from Wales receiving Secure Accommodation Orders. Project Report. Cardiff: Social Care Wales.
• Elliott, M. 2019. The backgrounds of children entering public care in Wales. Self.
• Elliott, M. and Scourfield, J. 2017. Identifying and understanding inequalities in child welfare intervention rates. Project Report. [Online]. Child Welfare Inequalities Project. Available at: http://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/research-directories/current-projects/2014/child-welfare-inequality-uk/cwip-project-outputs/

Thesis

• Elliott, M. 2017. Looked-after children in Wales: An analysis of the backgrounds of children entering public care. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.