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Mr Jeremy Roche

Jeremy Roche

Profile summary

  • Visiting Informal Academic
  • Honorary Associate
  • Faculty of Wellbeing, Education & Language Studies
  • School of Health, Wellbeing & Social Care
  • jeremy.roche

Professional biography

Jeremy Roche is Dean and Director of Studies in the Faculty of Health and Social Care at the Open University and senior lecturer in law. He served on the Management Committee of the Children’s Legal Centre for four years from 1990-1994 and has worked on a number of important projects at the Open University including externally funded initiatives on the Children Act 1989, child witnesses and chairing Family Proceedings Courts. He was on the Editorial Board of Social and Legal Studies An International Journal from 1992 to 2003 and on the editorial board of Children and Society The International journal of Childhood and Children's Services from 2009 until 2013. He has written widely on children’s rights, social policy and the law. 

 

Research interests

My research interests are in the field of children’s rights and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, child and family law and policy and the impact of law on decision-making by health and social care professionals. My main area of research is the field of children and the law. This is a broad area of scholarship and my work ranges from analyses of the language of children’s rights to the impact of the law on children and changing professional practice centred on children.

Publications include

L.A. Cull, J. Roche and D. Stringer (eds.) (2009) Law and Social Work: Contemporary Issues for Practice Basingstoke, Palgrave

J. Roche (2008) ‘Children’s rights, confidentiality and the policing of children’ International Journal of Children’s Rights pp431-456

S. Tucker and J. Roche (2007) ‘’Every Child Matters’: ‘Tinkering’ or ‘Reforming’ – An Analysis of the development of the Children Act 2004’ Education 3 -13 International Journal of Primary, Elementary and Early Years Education pp. 213-223

J. Roche (2005) ‘Children, citizenship and human rights’ Special Issue of Journal of Social Sciences No. 9 (Children’s Citizenship edited by Invernizzi A. and Milne, B.) pp.43-55

J. Roche and S. Tucker (2003) ‘Extending the social exclusion debate – an exploration of the family lives of young carers and young people with ME’ Childhood A global journal of child research vol.10 (4) pp.439-456

D. Baillie, K. Cameron, L. Cull, J. Roche and J. West (eds.) (2003) Social Work and the Law in Scotland Palgrave, Basingstoke 

P. Foley, J. Roche and S. Tucker (eds.) (2001) Children in Society, Contemporary Theory, Policy and Practice Basingstoke, Palgrave

Roche, J. (2004) ‘Professional Practice and the Challenge of Children’s Rights’ in Transit, R. (ed) Disciplining the Child Via the Discourse of the Professions Springfield, Illinois, Charles Thomas

Roche, J. (2004) ‘Value Dilemmas and Social Work Practice’ in Patisson, S and Pill, R. (eds.) Values in Professional Practice lessons for health, social care and other professionals Abingdon, Radcliffe Press

J. Roche (2002) ‘The Children Act 1989 and children’s rights: a critical reassessment’ in B. Franklin (ed.) The New Handbook of Children’s Rights Comparative Policy and Practice London, Routledge
 
H. Lim and J. Roche (2000) 'Feminism and children’s rights: the politics of voice,’ in D. Fottrell (ed.) The UNCRC Ten Years On, The Hague, Kluwer 

H. Lim and J. Roche (2000) ‘Feminism and Children’s Rights’ in J. Bridgeman and D. Monk (eds.) Feminist Perspectives on Child Law London, Cavendish

J. Roche and S. Tucker (2000) ‘Beyond Problematisation – young people, citizenship and a new approach to service delivery’ International Journal of Adolescence and Youth vol.9 pp.27-43 [

J. Roche (1999) ‘Children: Rights, Participation and Citizenship’ Childhood A global journal of child research 6(4) pp.475-493

J. Roche (1997) ‘Law Ethics and Social Work Practice: A Critical Curriculum’ the Liverpool Law Review Vol.XIX (2) pp.121-142

J. Roche and S. Tucker (1997) Youth in Society London, Sage

J. Roche (1995) 'Children's Rights - in the Name of the Child' 17 Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law (3), pp.281-299

J. Roche (1996) 'The Politics of Children's Rights' in J. Brannen and M. O'Brien (eds.) Children and Families: Research and Policy  London, Falmer

J. Roche (1991) 'The Children Act 1989: once a parent always a parent?' Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law (5) pp.345-361

J. Roche and A. Briggs (1990) 'Allowing Children a Voice: a Note on Confidentiality' 3 Journal of Social Welfare Law pp.178-192

Teaching interests

Children’s Rights
Child and Family Law
Legal Theory
Social Work practice and the Law

Publications

Children's rights, confidentiality and the policing of children (2008)
Roche, Jeremy
International Journal of Children's Rights, 16(4) (pp. 431-456)

Every Child Matters: 'tinkering' or 'reforming' - An analysis of the development of the Children Act (2004) from an educational perspective (2007-08)
Tucker, Stanley A. and Roche, Jeremy
Education 3-13, 35(3) (pp. 213-223)

Children, citizenship and human rights (2005)
Roche, Jeremy
Journal of Social Sciences, Special Is(9) (pp. 43-55)

Extending the social exclusion debate – An exploration of the family lives of young carers and young people with ME (2003)
Roche, Jeremy and Tucker, Stanley
Childhood, 10(4) (pp. 439-456)

Beyond Problematisation: Young people, citizenship and a new approach to service delivery (2000)
Roche, J. and Tucker, S.
International Journal of Adolescence and Youth, 9 (pp. 27-43)

Law, ethics and social work practice: a critical curriculum (1997)
Roche, Jeremy
Liverpool Law Review, XIX(2) (pp. 121-142)

Law ethics and social work practice: a critical curriculum (1997)
Roche, Jeremy
The Liverpool Law Review, 19(2) (pp. 121-142)

Children's rights: in the name of the child (1995)
Roche, Jeremy
Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 17(3) (pp. 281-299)

The Children Act 1989: once a parent always a parent? (1991)
Roche, Jeremy
Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 13(5) (pp. 345-361)

Allowing children a voice: a note on confidentiality (1990-05)
Roche, Jeremy and Briggs, Andy
Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 12(3) (pp. 178-192)

Value Dilemmas and Social Work Practice (2004)
Roche, Jeremy
In: Patisson, Stephen and Pill, Roisin M. eds. Values in Professional Practice lessons for Health, Social Care and other Professionals (pp. 89-101)
ISBN : 1-85775-818-8 | Publisher : Radcliffe Press | Published : Abingdon, UK

Children: Rights, participation and citizenship (2004)
Roche, Jeremy
In: Freeman, Michael D. A ed. Children's Rights. The International Library of Essays on Rights (pp. 277-293)
ISBN : 0-7546-2336 X | Publisher : Ashgate | Published : Aldershot

Legal Values and Social Work Values (2003-09)
Roche, Jeremy
In: Baillie, Deborah; Cameron, Kate; Cull, Lesley-Anne; Roche, Jeremy and West, Janice eds. Social Work and the Law in Scotland (pp. 16-27)
ISBN : 1-4039-1288-2 | Publisher : Palgrave | Published : Basingstoke, UK

Contradictory and convergent trends in law and policy affecting children in England (2003-06)
Foley, Pam; Parton, Nigel; Roche, Jeremy and Tucker, Stanley
In: Hallett, Christine and Prout, Alan eds. Hearing the voices of children: Social policy for a new century (pp. 106-120)
ISBN : 0-415-27642-X | Publisher : Routledge Falmer | Published : London, UK

The Children Act 1989 and children’s rights: a critical reassessment (2002)
Roche, Jeremy
In: Franklin, Bob ed. The New Handbook of Children's Rights: Comparative Policy and Practice (pp. 60-80)
ISBN : 0-415-25036-6 | Publisher : Routledge | Published : London, UK

Feminism and children’s rights: the politics of voice (2001-01-01)
Lim, Hilary and Roche, Jeremy
In: Fottrell, Deirdre ed. Revisiting Children's Rights: 10 Years of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (pp. 51-72)
Publisher : Kluwer Law International | Published : The Hague, The Netherlands

Feminism and children's rights: The politics of voice (2000)
Lim, Hilary and Roche, Jeremy
In: Fottrell, Deirdre ed. Revisiting children's rights: 10 years of the UN convention on the Rights of the Child (pp. 51-72)
ISBN : 90-411-1508-0 | Publisher : Kluwer Law International | Published : The Hague

Feminism and children's rights (2000)
Lim, Hilary and Roche, Jeremy
In: Bridgeman, Jo and Monk, Daniel eds. Feminist Perspectives on Child Law (pp. 227-249)
ISBN : 1-85941-525-3 | Publisher : Routledge-Cavendish | Published : London

Children and divorce: A private affair (1999)
Roche, Jeremy
In: Day Sclater, Shelley and Piper, Christine eds. Undercurrents of Divorce. Socio-Legal Studies (17) (pp. 55-75)
ISBN : 1-84014-733-4 | Publisher : Ashgate | Published : Abingdon

The politics of children's rights (1996-01-23)
Roche, Jeremy
In: Brannen, J. and O'Brian, M. eds. Children and Families: Research and Policy (pp. 26-40)
ISBN : 0-7507-0476-4 | Publisher : Falmer | Published : London

Children's rights: a lawyer's view (1996)
Roche, Jeremy
In: John, Mary ed. Children in Our Charge: The Child's Right to Resources. Children in Charge (2) (pp. 23-35)
ISBN : 1-85302-369-8 | Publisher : Jessica Kingsley | Published : London

Conflict and consensus: a critique of the language of informal justice (1988)
Bottomley, A and Roche, Jeremy
In: Matthews, R ed. Informal Justice?. Sage Contemporary Criminology (pp. 86-107)
ISBN : 0-8039-8148-1 | Publisher : Sage | Published : London

Youth in Society: Contemporary Theory, Policy and Practice (2004)
Roche, Jeremy; Tucke, Stanley; Thomson, Rachel and Flynn, Ronny eds.
ISBN : 1-4129-0024-7 | Publisher : Sage | Published : London, UK

Social Work and the Law in Scotland (2003-09)
Baillie, Deborah; Cameron, Kate; Cull, Lesley-Anne; Roche, Jeremy and West, Janice eds.
ISBN : 1-4039-1288-2 | Publisher : Palgrave | Published : Basingstoke, UK