Research for Children and Young People
Personnel
Publications
Featured Publications
Framework for the Assessment of Vulnerable Children & their Families. Assessment Tool and Practice Guidance
Personnel at the Children's Research Centre
Senior Research Fellows are members of the College's staff, based in cognate academic departments, who have a close affiliation with the Centre. They supervise one or more projects in the Centre and serve on the Centre's Executive Committee.
Helen has been working in the Department of Social Studies since 1995 and has been a Senior Research Fellow in the Children's Research Centre since 2002. She was a member of the working group that produced Children First: national guidelines for the protection & welfare of children and has been involved in the development of local and national guidelines for voluntary and statutory children's services. She is currently a member of the Special Residential Services Board, and is on the panel appointed by the Minister for Health & Children to inquire into clerical child sexual abuse in the Diocese of Ferns. She is the author of Child Protection: Innovations & Interventions, published in 2002 by the IPA, and Child Protection Work: Beyond the Rhetoric, published in 2003 by Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
Research Interests
Child protection practice and policy, multi-disciplinary work in child protection, assessment of vulnerable children
Projects
- Development of a Framework for the Assessment of Vulnerable Children and their Families
- Listen to Me! Children's Experience of Domestic Violence
Publications
Buckley, H., Whelan, S., Carr, N., Murphy, C. (2008) Service Users' Perceptions of the Irish Child Protection System. Dublin: Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs.
Holt, S., Buckley, H., Whelan, S. (2008) The Impact of Exposure to Domestic Violence on Children - A Review of the Literature Child Abuse and Neglect
Buckley, H., Holt, S., Whelan, S. (2007) Listen to Me! Children's Experiences of Domestic Violence. Child Abuse Review Vol.16:296-310.
Buckley, H., Giller, H., Brierley, M. (2006) The formation of information in child care: herding cats or counting sheep? Administraticn, Vol54, no.1 (2006), pp72-87.
Buckley, H., Horwath, J., Whelan, S. (2006) Framework for the Assessment of Vulnerable Children & their Families. Assessment Tool and Practice Guidance
Buckley, H., Whelan, S., Holt, S. (2006) Listen to Me! Children's Experience of Domestic Violence. Dublin: Children's Research Centre,Trinity College.
Buckley, H. (2005) Reviewing Children First: Some Issues for Consideration' Irish Journal of Family Law, 3, pp2-8.
Buckley, H. (2005) 'Neglect: No Monopoly on Expertise' in J. Taylor and B. Daniel (Editors) Child Neglect Practice Issues for Health and Social Care London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Colligan, L., Buckley, H. (2004) 'Community based professional responses to child sexual abuse' Irish Journal of Family Law, 4, 2-7.
Horwath, J., Buckley, H., Whelan, S. (2004) Looking for Common Ground. Community Care July 22nd
Buckley, H. (2002) Child protection and welfare — Innovations and interventions. Dublin: Institute of Public Administration
Buckley, H. (2002) Child protection work — beyond the rhetoric. London: Jessica Kingsley