| Mulcahy, Jo, Wray, Becky, Parent, Katia, Rees, Alyson  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2363-4965, Waits, Charlotte and Bezeczky, Zoe
      2026.
      Together, a Chance: piloting family social workers in two women’s prisons in England, UK.
       Bald, Caroline and Martinez Herrero, Maria Inés, eds.
      
      The Routledge International Handbook of Criminal Justice Social Work,
       
      
      
      
       
      
      Routledge, | 
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| Waits, Charlotte 2025. Outstanding practice and the rhetoric of change: from an ethnographic study of leadership practice in child protection social work. Presented at: 14th European Conference for Social Work Research, Munich, Germany, 12-14 March 2025. | 
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| Waits, Charlotte
      2024.
      
      The extent of consent and other stories - From an ethnography of child protection services.
      Presented at: 17th Annual Ethnography Symposium,
      Cardiff, UK,
      28 - 30 August 2024.   | 
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| Waits, Charlotte
      2024.
      
      Leadership in children’s services: three different approaches.
      Presented at: CASCADE Seminar Series for the Welsh Government,
      Cardiff, UK,
      10 July 2024.   | 
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| Rees, Alyson  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2363-4965, Waits, Charlotte, Bezeczky, Zoe, Parent, Katia, Wray, Becky and Mulcahy, Jo
      2024.
      
      Social work across boundaries: Findings from an evaluation of a service supporting mothers in prison. Evaluation of the Together a Chance pilot project 2021-23.
      Presented at: 13th European Conference for Social Work Research,
      Vilnius, Lithuania,
      17-19 April 2024.   | 
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| Rees, Alyson  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2363-4965, Waits, Charlotte and Bezeczky, Zoe
      
      2024.
      Final report. Together a chance: Evaluation of the social workers for Mother in Prison pilot project, 2021-2023.
      [Project Report].
      
      
      Cardiff, Wales:
      CASCADE Research Centre.   | 
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| Waits, Charlotte, Rees, Alyson  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2363-4965 and Bezeczky, Zoe
      2024.
      
      Insights from prison research with mothers: Does a prison-based social worker help where there are child welfare concerns?
      Presented at: CASCADE 10 Year Anniversary Event,
      Cardiff, UK,
      23 May 2024. | 
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| Waits, Charlotte, Rees, Alyson  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2363-4965, Bezeczky, Zoe, Parent, Katia, Wray, Becky and Mulcahy, Jo
      2023.
      
      What works in prison research? The experience of evaluating the Together a Chance pilot project.
      Presented at: Joint Social Work Education and Research Conference (JSWEC),
      Glasgow, UK,
      15-16 June 2023.   | 
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| Rees, Alyson  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2363-4965, Waits, Charlotte and Bezeczky, Zoe
      
      2023.
      Together a chance. Evaluation of the Social Worker for Mothers in 
Prison pilot project, 2021-2023 : Second interim report.
      [Project Report].
      
      
      
      Cardiff Univeristy.
      Available at: https://cascadewales.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/...   | 
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| Rees, Alyson  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2363-4965, Waits, Charlotte and Mulcahy, Jo
      2023.
      
      Evaluation of Together a Chance: How effective is it to have social workers in women’s prisons?
      Presented at: Exchange Wales online event with Pact,
      Online,
      22nd June 2023. | 
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| Rees, Alyson  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2363-4965, Bezeczky, Zoe and Waits, Charlotte
      
      2022.
      Together a Chance: Evaluation of the Social Worker for Mothers in
Prison pilot project, 2021-2023: 1st Interim Report.
      [Project Report].
      
      
      Cardiff:
      Children’s Social Care Research and Development Centre (CASCADE),  Cardiff University.
      Available at: https://cascadewales.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/...   | 
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| Forrester, Donald  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2293-5718, Wood, Sophie, Waits, Charlotte, Jones, Rebecca, Bristow, Dan  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2179-9013 and Taylor-Collins, Emma
      
      2022.
      Children's social services and care rates in Wales: A survey of the sector.
      [Project Report].
      
      
      Cardiff:
      Wales Centre for Public Policy.
      Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.54454/20220311 | 
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| Forrester, Donald  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2293-5718, Westlake, David  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7507-3413, Killian, Mike, Antonopolou, Vivi, McCann, Michelle, Thurnham, Angela, Thomas, Roma, Waits, Charlotte, Whittaker, Charlotte and Hutchinson, Douglas
      2019.
      
      What is the relationship between worker skills and outcomes for families in child and family social work?
      British Journal of Social Work
      49
      
        (8)
      
      , pp. 2148-2167.
      
      10.1093/bjsw/bcy126 | 
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| Forrester, Donald  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2293-5718, Westlake, David  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7507-3413, Killian, Mike, Antonopoulou, Vivi, McCann, Michelle, Thurnham, Angela, Thomas, Roma, Waits, Charlotte, Whittaker, Charlotte and Hutchison, Dougal
      2018.
      
      A randomized controlled trial of training in motivational Interviewing for child protection.
      Children and Youth Services Review
      88
      
      , pp. 180-190.
      
      10.1016/j.childyouth.2018.02.014   | 
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| Waits, Charlotte, Killian, Michael and Forrester, Donald  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2293-5718
      2015.
      
      Parental engagement in child and family social work: assessment from parent, social worker and observer perspectives.
      Presented at: BASPCAN 9th International Congress,
      Edinburgh, Scotland,
      12-15 April 2015. | 
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| Waits, Charlotte and Forrester, Donald  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2293-5718
      2014.
      
      Knowledge-building in child and family social work through 'velcro' research: researchers and practitioners collaborating to inform future research, training and practice.
      Presented at: 3rd International Conference on Practice Research,
      New York, USA,
      9 -11 June 2014. | 
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| Waits, Charlotte and Antonopoulou, Vivi 2013. Assessing parental engagement in child and family social work: learning from a UK research study. Presented at: UK Joint Social Work Education and Research Conference, London, UK, 10-12 July 2013. | 
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