Books and journal articles published through the  Innovate Project

Books

These two books are available as open access e-books. Just click on the link to access and download for free:

  • COMING LATER THIS YEAR! Firmin, C., Langhoff, K, Peace, D., Lefevre, M., Huegler, N. and Eyal-Lubling, R. (2026 in press) Beyond Risk in Adolescent Safeguarding: Creating Conditions for Young People to Flourish. Bristol: Policy Press. https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/beyond-risk-in-adolescent-safeguarding 
  • Lefevre, M., Huegler, N., Lloyd, J., Owens, R., Damman, J., Ruch, G. and Firmin, C. (2024) Innovation in Social Care: New Approaches for Young People affected by Extra-Familial Risks and Harms. Bristol: Policy Press. Click here to read.
  • Firmin, C., Lefevre, M., Huegler, N. and Peace, D. (2022) Safeguarding Young People Beyond the Family Home: Responding to Extra-Familial Risks and Harms. Bristol: Policy Press. Click here to read.

Journal articles

All of these journal articles can be freely accessed online. Click on the link to download.

  • Firmin, C., Lefevre, M., Langhoff, K. & Ruch, G. (2025) A line in the sand: moving from surface improvement to foundational shifts to develop effective responses to extra-familial risks and harms, British Journal of Social Work, 55(3), pp. 1296–1316, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcae193
  • Lloyd, J. & Peace, D. (2025) ‘Subverting the gaze: using fictional videos and reaction videos as a participatory method to create practice change in social care systems’, International Journal of Social Research Methodology, pp. 1–18,  https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2025.2606944
  • Lefevre, M., Temperley, J., Goldsmith, C. and Hampson, M. (2025) Creating a conducive zone for innovation in children’s social care, Health & Social Care in the Community, 3599333, pp.1-16, https://doi.org/10.1155/hsc/3599333
  • Holmes, L., & Lefevre, M. (2025) Value for whom? Rethinking cost-effectiveness from young people’s perspective. Health Education Journal, 84(4), pp. 446-458, https://doi.org/10.1177/00178969241300849
  • Huegler, N., Damman, J. L., Ruch, G., & Bowyer, S. (2024). ‘We were persistently othering them out’: Reconceptualising ‘safeguarding’ for young people experiencing extra-familial risks and harms during transition to adulthood, Health Education Journal, 84(4), pp. 432-445, https://doi.org/10.1177/00178969241299338
  • Firmin, C., Hickle, K., Eyal-Lubling, R., Maglajlic, R. A., & Lefevre, M. (2024). ‘Known to services’ or ‘Known by professionals’: Relationality at the core of trauma-informed responses to extra-familial harm. Children and Youth Services Review, 10759, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.107595
  • Ruch, G., Damman, J., Huegler, N., & Bowyer, S. (2024). ‘I was detecting a kind of, a from the heart kind of dialogue’: understanding the role of reflective spaces for transitional safeguarding innovation. Journal of Social Work Practice, 38(2), 175–190. https://doi.org/10.1080/02650533.2024.2327046
  • Peace, D. and Lefevre, M. (2024) Innovating in the time of Covid: adapting services for young people at risk of extra-familial risks and harms, Child and Family Social Work, https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.13163.  
  • Lloyd, J., Hickle, K., Owens, R. and Peace, C. (2024) ‘Relationship-based practice and contextual safeguarding: Approaches to working with young people experiencing extra-familial risk and harm’, Children & Society, 38(4), pp. 1113-1129 https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12787.
  • Lefevre, M., Hampson, M. and Goldsmith, C. (2023) ‘Towards a Synthesised Directional Map of the Stages of Innovation in Children’s Social Care’, British Journal of Social Work, 53(5), pp. 2478–2498, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcac183.
  • Hampson, M., Goldsmith, C. and Lefevre, M. (2021) ‘Towards a framework for ethical innovation in children’s social care’, Journal of Children’s Services, Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 198-213, DOI 10.1108/JCS-12-2020-0080, ISSN: 1746-6660, available at  https://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/98712/.
  • Huegler, Nathalie and Ruch, Gillian (2021) ‘Risk, vulnerability and complexity: transitional safeguarding as a reframing of binary perspectives’, Practice, 34:1, 25-39, https://doi.org/10.1080/09503153.2021.1932787

Practice tools

Tools to support innovation planning and review in social care:

  • System conditions for ethical and effective innovation. This pack provides a range of tools and how to use them
  • You can also download these three outline tools separately, but will need the guidance of the above pack:  Diamond 9 tool for how to explore current conditions in local systems to understand  strengths and areas for development; Four Quadrants tool - helps you uncover wider system influences on innovation to help anticipate and manage their effects; Roadmap tool - supports you in plannig priority areas of action to create local system conditions conducive to innovation.
    • A guiding framework  to support planning through the Stages of Innovation in children’s social care. 
    • PEISC tool: offers principles and reflective questions for Promoting Ethical Innovation in Social Care.  
    • DEISC tool: guidance on Doing Ethical Innovation in Social Care to help ensure  practice and service innovations are ethically appropriate as well as practically feasible. 
    • Ecocyles practice tool: questions for planning and reflection when whole-systems innovation encounters unexpected obstacles and progress is compromised.

Participation tools:

  • this is a set of practice tools to support professionals in: a) running consultation workshops with young people and b) running training sessions with professionals to improve practice in safeguarding panels: participatory practice tools.

Two tools to support trauma-informed writing about people who use services: